Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
THE Dharmapuri forest department officials have recovered eleven monitor lizards from the kitchens of two restaurants here on Thursday. According to the forest ranger L Mahilan, a team of officials led by forester Sivasubramaniyam had intercepted two highway restaurants near Sogathur crossroad. They reportedly found 11 monitor lizards that were …
It is an intense, but a lone battle, being fought in the non-descript classrooms of schools in remote and dusty villages in Salem and Dharmapuri districts against the emerging threat
DHARMAPURI: The Dharmapuri police arrested two persons and seized a Sand boa snake from them in Kundalpatti, near here, on Thursday. According to a release from the SP office, on a tip off that the snake was caught in a garden belonging to T. Sigamani in Mallikuttai village, near Kundalpatti, …
DHARMAPURI: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government has put on hold the Integrated Hogenakkal Drinking Water Project just to help Congress, its alliance partner, win in Karnataka in the elections, accused Ramadoss, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder. Dr. Ramadoss told reporters here on Sunday that the project, aimed at envisaging water supply …
DENKANIKOTTAI: Wild elephants destroyed crops near Kelamangalam on Thursday night and later roamed around Kottha lake area. Forest Department officials after much effort succeeded in sending them to the nearby Pavanatham forest on Friday evening. Eyewitnesses said that about four elephants from the forest entered the fields in Jakkeri in …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide about Rs.800 crore more for the Hogenekkal Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project. This tranche is for covering Hosur and adjoining areas of Krishnagiri district under the project, according to a senior official of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply …
Dharmapuri AS many as 200 students, including 90 girls, of standard I to VIII of the Asthagiriyur Panchayat Union Middle School in Morappur block were admitted to the Dharmapuri Government Medical College Hospital in the area, after they complained of vomiting on Thursday. Out of the total strength of 389 …
WHEN former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders crossed the Cauvery in a coracle into Tamil Nadu at Hogenekkal in Dharmapuri district on March 16 and shouted slogans demanding that Tamil Nadu should not implement the drinking water supply project it had planned there, …
This paper tracks the organizational and financial history of the Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) and the self-help group (SHG) network it supports in Tamil Nadu, India. It describes how the network is connecting and negotiating with a variety of formal sector institutions, paving the way towards aligning the "informal" …
MAJOR PROJECTS: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi inaugurating the Hogenakkal Water Supply Scheme and Fluorosis Mitigation Programme in Dharmapuri on Tuesday. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has assured that the government will ensure establishment of industries in places other than Chennai and its suburbs. After laying the foundation stone for the Rs. …
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone for the long-awaited Rs. 1,334-crore Hogenakkal Water Supply Project in Dharmapuri on February 26, Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin said on Monday. On his arrival at the Chennai airport after a week-long tour of Japan to seek assistance from the Japan …
The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach has become wellknown after the positive experiences seen in Indonesia and other Asian countries. In this article we describe how the "conventional' IPM Farmer Field School approach has been modified in the South Indian dryland agriculture context, in order to suit the needs and …
Mahyco pays Mahyco was made to pay Rs 2 crore to farmers as compensation following complaints of Bt cotton crop failure in Dharmapuri and Salem districts in Tamil Nadu. At least 4,000 farmers were affected by the crop failure in these districts. Some of them had lodged FIRs against the …
the Tamil Nadu government has brought the Bt Cotton seed issue back into focus by banning the sale of seeds from Mahyco over complaints of crop failure in Dharmapuri district. Bt Cotton varieties made by the Indian seed major had earlier been blacklisted by Andhra Pradesh after crop failures in …
