CHENNAI: The Paruthipattu lake at Avadi will soon turn greener, thanks to the massive sapling plantation drive conducted on Saturday. As many as 1,000 plants we ...

"It's an example of restoration of water bodies. Avadi is like a lake district with fifteen such lakes. We would restore all of these and link them all the way they were earlier," he told NDTV ...

Evenings have become happier and filled with activities for residents of Avadi in Tiruvallur district, thanks to the restoration and development of the Paruthipattu lake into an eco-park. The ...

Chennai's Water Resources Department clears encroachments in Vilinjiyambakkam lake to restore it as a potential drinking water source.

CHENNAI: Residents of Chennai can now relax at Paruthipattu lake and eco-park at Avadi with a pedal boat ride, a la Ooty. The lake, about 20km from the city centre, is easily accessible by bus and ...

CHENNAI: The city's western suburb of Avadi is set to get a new picnic spot, with chief minister J Jayalalithaa announcing in the assembly on Tuesday that 28 crore would be spent for sprucing up ...

The Paruthapattu Lake in northern Chennai, which was severely encroached on and polluted has been cleaned and converted into an 85-acre reservoir in an extensive Rs 28 crore project that involved ...

In an incident that plunged an entire neighbourhood into grief, two brothers drowned in a lake near Avadi on Saturday afternoon, when they went in for a dip. Babu (12) and Vinoth Kumar (7), sons ...

The brain behind project is Avadi legislator K Pandiarajan, popularly called Ma Foi Pandiarajan, who\'s also the Tamil Nadu Culture Minister. Chennai: With four major reservoirs supplying Chennai ...