The Tuticorin International Container Terminal (TICT) at VOC Chidambaranar Port in Tamil Nadu earned green terminal status on 22 October 2026, after all of its operational equipment was converted to electric power. Earlier, on 10 August 2026, VOC Port became the first major port in India to be free of Scope 2 emissions.
Tamil Nadu will invest ₹180 crore from 2026–27 to 2030–31 to reduce human-wildlife conflict in vulnerable areas. The scheme covers 100 conflict-prone villages in 11 Western Ghats districts such as Coimbatore, Erode, Nilgiris, Salem, Theni, Tirunelveli and Tiruppur. A sum of ₹20 crore is earmarked for 2026–27 and ₹40 crore a year for the next four years.
Tamil Nadu has prolonged the tenure of special officers running rural local bodies in 28 districts and named special officers for 9 more districts, all until April 19, 2027. Elected members' terms ended on January 5, 2025 in the 28 districts and on October 19, 2026 in the other 9.
Scientists at the Marine Biology Regional Centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai, have identified two marine fish species new to science, a sandperch and an electric ray. The sandperch lives on the seabed over sand or rubble in shallow waters and eats crustaceans, polychaetes and young fish.
A.P. Moller–Maersk has planned to carry out its first drydocking in India at Larsen & Toubro's (L&T) Kattupalli Shipyard, located near Chennai in Tamil Nadu. The ship chosen for the work is Maersk Chattogram, a container vessel registered under the flag of Singapore, and the drydocking is scheduled for October 2026.
The Tamil Nadu government has reconstituted the Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA), with retired IAS officer K. Phanindra Reddy as its chairperson. The members are retired bureaucrats Reeta Harish Thakkar and Mythili K. Rajendran, retired district judge S. Kirubaharan Mathuram and former Public Works Department engineer-in-chief K. P. Sathyamurthy.
The Tamil Nadu government has ordered a rainwater harvesting (RWH) campaign across the State to conserve water and recharge groundwater. Existing RWH structures will be revived, and fresh facilities will be set up in houses, apartments, institutions, commercial buildings and industries.
A young European bee-eater, scientifically named Merops apiaster, has been sighted in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This is the first time the bird has been documented in the city. The European bee-eater is placed in the family Meropidae under the order Coraciiformes.
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