Joint efforts needed to promote Nilgiri mountain railway

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has fielded eight of its sitting Lok Sabha members for the general elections while the others are new faces. Of the 40 constituencies (39 in Tamil Nadu and one in Puducherry), the DMK has allotted five seats in ...

The fourth oil-fired steam locomotive meant for the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) rolled out of the Golden Rock Railway Workshop here on Wednesday adding one more steam engine to the existing NMR fleet. The X class metre gauge locomotive ...

Forest personnel undergo training in identifying and rescuing snakes

Close on the heels of the killing of a man-eater tiger in the Nilgiris, people of a habitat in Coimbatore are living under the fear of attack by leopards, which some claim to have sighted. The Forest Department has been on an alert for the past ...

Sales rise 35.35% to Rs 13.40 crore Net profit of United Nilgiri Tea Estates Company rose 49.29% to Rs 2.09 crore in the quarter ended December 2013 as against Rs 1.40 crore during the previous quarter ended December 2012. Sales rose 35.35% to Rs 13.40 crore ...

The Nilgiris district secretary of DMK, Coonoor MLA and former minister K Ramachandran and former party district secretary and chief whip B M Mubharak have collectively petitioned the party high command to field sitting MP and former minister A Raja ...

Nilgiris Collector P Shankar has announced that the minimum price to be paid to tea growers in the Nilgiris for the green leaf they supply to factories in February has been fixed at 13.10...

The year 2014 has opened on a disastrous note for Nilgiri tea producers because they could not sell more despite offering their produce at a huge discount. The year opened in the backdrop of significant excess global production in 2013. According to our ...

Two-day habitat identification and population estimation concludes Presence of vultures in at least half a dozen areas has been recorded for the first time by naturalists in the Nilgiris North Forest Division and Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) during a ...