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 …
R. Ilangovan Villagers, mainly farmers, have raised a banner of revolt SALEM: The land acquisition for the expansion of Salem Airport has hit a roadblock. Though Deputy Chief Minister M. K. Stalin has assured that State would extend all possible help to the Civil Aviation Ministry in acquiring the required …
Although symbolic, the protest is a sign that the selfsufficient Malayali tribals are turning restive due to modernisation in the hill station CLAIMING ancestral ownership to the land at Pagoda Point tourist spot in Yercaud where Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) has developed resort-type individual dwellings for sale, tribals in …
G Rajasekaran | ENS Salem, July 25 FOREST RIGHTS ACT WHILE the poor and marginalised tribal community is yet to benefit out of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, thanks to procedural and legal hurdles, the hill and forest areas in Salem …
IN spite of the death of a patient and over 50 others suffering due to suspected cholera, sanitary conditions and drinking water quality continue to be in a very poor quality, the people of Muthampatti, a village in Salem district, complained to the Collector (in-charge) Kalaiarasi on Monday. The people …
THE Samuga Samathuva Padai (SSP) led by former bureaucrat P Sivakami will petition Gover nor Surjit Singh Barnala to get the Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) areas in Tamil Nadu to be declared as scheduled areas, which would bestow special protection to the tribals. According to a 1986 data, about …
SALEM: An additional 600 mw of power will be made available to the State by September 2011 when the works on the stage III, an expansion of the Mettur Thermal Power Station, is completed, said C. P Singh, Chairman, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. After inspecting the erection and construction works …
The Tamil Nadu Government will frame a policy for the sustainable exploitation of mineral resources, announced the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr M.K. Stalin, in the Assembly today. This was part of a number of initiatives in his reply to the debate in the Assembly on the demand for grants to …
SALEM: The villagers of Kattukottai near Thammampati detained the officials of the Department of Forest inside their office for nearly an hour on Sunday evening till the officials yielded to their demand of granting permission to hunt down rabbits, which the villagers claimed, was a part of the temple ritual. …
Package of measures chalked out to prevent fires YERCAUD: Officials in the Department of Forest here are facing a daunting task this year. With the sun crossing the bearable limits with scanty rain, the flora and fauna in the Shevaroyan Hills are facing the nightmare of forest fires. The Yercaud …
Virudhunagar worst hit; funds for other districts after getting report CHENNAI: The government on Thursday sanctioned Rs. 18 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund to overcome the drinking water shortage in 10 districts. Virudhunagar, Tiruvallur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Villupuram, Krishnagiri, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Dindigul and Namakkal districts will be benefited. Making a …
SALEM: Officials seized nine tractors that were engaged in illegal sand mining from a tank at Nagiapatti Pudukuttai near Thammampatti here on Wednesday. Revenue sources said that based on information that illegal sand quarrying was going on in a PWD tank, officials led by Gengavalli Tahsildhar Selvaraj seized the tractors. …
Female infanticide has declined in Tamil Nadu, but there is still an alarming decline of child sex ratio in many districts. When Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and main opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which seldom see eye to eye on national and regional issues, joined other …
PMK founder S. Ramadoss and former Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss along with party cadre staging a novel agitation in front of the Collectorate in Dharmapuri on Thursday. DHARMAPURI: Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss has urged the government to declare Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Salem, Namakkal and Vellore districts drought-prone. He told …
