Vellore (D)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

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 …

Sloth bear sanctuary mooted in Yelagiri Hills

Collector delivers special address at the Wildlife Week Celebrations Menace posed by wild animals leaving forests and entering agricultural lands in search of water Forest cover has to be increased in order to induce rainfall and facilitate availability of water VELLORE: The Forest Department and the Vellore district administration have …

Large-scale sand mining from Palar

CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Wednesday criticised the government for

Corporation to convene meet on enforcing plastics ban

Plastic carry bags are still used, alleges MDMK councillor

Flash floods claim 5 lives

AMBUR: Flash floods at Ambur in Vellore district claimed five lives, including those of a six-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy. One person was reported missing as Fire and Rescue Services personnel and police launched relief operations. Heavy rain that started at 10 p.m. on Tuesday continued till 4 a.m. …

Solar energy tapping should be made compulsory

VELLORE: The installation of a solar energy tapping system should be made compulsory and a condition by the local bodies for issuing building plan approvals for houses in order to encourage the harnessing of the abundant solar energy available in places like Vellore and reduce the use of electricity in …

Villager attacked by wild elephant

VELLORE: Sundaramoorthy (18) of Naickanur in the Tirupattur forest division who was injured by a wild elephant straying into farmers

Two poachers arrested

VELLORE: Two of a gang of 40 wildlife poachers who fired at a forest watcher, resulting in bullet wounds on him in the Paravamalai Reserve Forest (RF) in the Odugathur forest range in Vellore district on July 23 were arrested during a search operation by the forest department personnel in …

Protest against non-supply of drinking water hits traffic

Demonstrators disperse after being assured of water supply Two borewells sunk in the Latheri main village did not yield any water Plans are also afoot to bring water to Latheri from Thirumani village VELLORE: Traffic on the Katpadi-Gudiyatham Road was disrupted for about two hours on Wednesday morning as hundreds …

Time to try out cloud seeding in TN?

V NarayanaMurthi WITH the Vellore region experiencing scanty rainfall over the years, it is perhaps time the authorities considered artificial cloud seeding to bridge the demand-supply gap Consider this: since 1996, the region has been receiving deficit rainfall ranging between 6 and 65 per cent of the normal 900 mm …

Government school students go on eco trail to hill village

Held in connection with World Environment Day celebrations New experience: School students plant a sapling during the eco trail organised in connection with World Environment Day celebrations in Thandayankottai in Anaicut block on Friday.

Estimation of surface runoff in Malattar sub-watershed using SCSCN method

Watershed management plays a vital role in water resources engineering. Watershed based on water resources management is necessary to plan and conserve the available resources. Remote sensing and Geographic Information System techniques can be effectively used to manage spatial and non spatial database that represent the hydrologic characteristics of the …

From tech city on a battery-operated auto

Syed Sajjad Ahmed was on a long distance test drive to Vellore It is crude now and I will have to work on it for the next few years to make it more attractive, userfriendly, efficient and also to target higher speeds } just six to eight units of elec …

Stakeholders approach for medicinal plants cultivation: A case study from Tamil Nadu

India is recognized as one of the countries having the oldest, richest and most diverse cultural traditions associated with the use of herbal medicines. But due to over-harvesting in their natural habitats, many medicinal plants have been put on the endangered list of IUCN. The Tamil Nadu experiment in Vellore …

Milk powder unit at Ammapalayam likely in a year

CHENGAM: Chengam Assembly constituency has been witnessing development during the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) regime. The proposal to start a milk powder processing unit at Ammapalayam, which will be operational in one year, is an example, Food Minister E.V. Velu said here on Tuesday. Introducing the DMK candidate for Tiruvannamalai …

Top priority for linking rivers: Velu

FORMER Union Minister of State for Railways and PMK

Reds go green to check UPA in Vellore

V NarayanaMurthi Vellore The CPI (M) will focus on the problem of pollution from tanneries in the district. The issue is complicated by the fact that many of the tanneries are owned by a particular community which could give it a communal spin No party in power had taken any …

Trees relocated under Green Vellore Project

IT is not planting of saplings but well grown trees themselves that makes the second phase of

Third phase of Green Vellore project launched

About 300 saplings, 75 flowering shrubs planted on Wednesday ECO

Extend Hogenakkal drinking water scheme to Vellore district

Groundwater level going down: Palar Protection Movements

Sandalwood yard under surveillance

V NarayanaMurthi | ENS Vellore, THE two-and-a-half acre sandalwood godown at Tirupattur, considered to be the biggest in Asia and maintained by the Tirupattur Forest Division, will install hightech surveillance system to protect its 600 tonne stock of sandalwood and red sanders, wor th crores of rupees. The Rs 3-lakh …

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