Kuruvai looks uncertain this year too

In a big relief to Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre to constitute a Supervisory Committee with the Secretary, Union Ministry of Water Resources as Chairman and the Chief Secretaries of the States of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre, the States of Karnataka and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry on an application from Tamil Nadu for a direction to the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and ...

"Even if the southwest monsoon were to be normal (as predicted by various agencies), I would appeal farmers to exercise abundant caution before going in for kuruvai. Even to think of kuruvai at this stage, without observing the behaviour of monsoon, ...

With the ground water table depleting rapidly in view of the drought like conditions, Tiruchi Corporation has just begun to dig additional borewells on the river bed. Next summer, it will most likely be spared of the trouble. Just a few metres ...

The Cauvery river bed has turned bone dry and the water table in the city has slumped already. With a long summer ahead, the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation is gearing up to meet the city's drinking water requirements over the next three or four ...

Rampant pollution caused by untreated effluents let into the Cauvery river and its tributaries in Tamil Nadu by mainly textile dyeing units, has resulted in the virtual "death" of large stretches of the river system, according to a conference of farmers and ...

For Iyya Kannu and his family, it will be first time in six decades that they are not growing summer paddy this year. They own some 20 acres in the key delta area of Tiruchi district in Tamil Nadu. "Last week, we farmers in Musiri, Thottiyam in ...

On January 17, the top brass of Indian security and Intelligence huddled to review the threat perception to vital installations. Only a day before, there had been a terror attack on a British Petroleum gas facility in Algeria that left dozens dead.

District Collector Jayashree Muralidharan on Friday expressed her unhappiness over the failure of a large number of farmers failing to insure their crops "despite my persistent advice." Speaking at the agriculturists' grievances day, she pointed out ...