Nearly four decades after the State government had acquired land for expanding the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at the Sriharikota Range (SHAR), near Chennai, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has modified the compensation amount paid to one of the land owners.

In 1981, the State government had acquired 22.64 acres of land in Kariammal village, near Ponneri, in the erstwhile Chengalpattu district after paying compensation to the owners and providing alternative house sites to them at Vairavankuppam in Pulicat village.

TAMBARAM: The Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply has put in place a novel initiative to recycle plastic waste and in the process earn a little money.

Under the project, plastic waste such as cups, sheets, use-and-throw polythene bags among many others generated from 10 municipalities in the Kancheepuram district are collected, stored and then sold in an auction.

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