Wall of primary school building collapses in rain

BALASORE: A tusker killed a man in Ayodhya village of Nilgiri block late on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Bhakta Charan Das, 45. He mistook the animal to be a bullock in the dark and tried to drive it away. Enraged the elephant attacked ...

UDHAGAMANDALAM: In the Nilgiris, tea has long ceased to be the drink that brings joy. A crippling fall in green leaf prices that started in the late 1990s has led to a more than 20% reduction in cultivation area. And those affected are a whole ...

Police teams organised a combing operation along the jungle and jungle hamlets on the Nilgiris border (Photo: Deccan Chronicle) Ooty: With suspected Maoist movement in the jungles in Kerala bordering the Nilgiris on its west, the police here, ...

The court said A Jagajothi of Gudalur in the Nilgiris district was entitled to at least Rs 50,000 as compensation, as she and her family members had been illegally thrown out of their rented house.

For those who lived in the city in the 1980s, the Nilgiris department store on Radhakrishnan (R.K.) Salai was always a landmark. Customers had a soft corner for their neatly-packed and stacked products, milk and butter, Ooty vegetables and fruits, ...

The Nilgiris will soon have premium Tasmac outlets to cater to tourists thronging the hills for vacation as well as residents. Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) has chosen Ooty, Coonoor and Masinagudi in the Nilgiris to set up premium ...

Following heavy rain in the Pilloor catchment in Kerala and the Nilgiris district and the resultant heavy inflow into the Pilloor reservoir, the authorities in charge of the reservoir opened the shutters on Tuesday evening. According to sources, ...

India has the most number of landslides in Asia, said R Ramkumar, head of department of earth sciences, Annamalai University.

STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Balasore, 21 July The wildlife division of Balasore is in a tizzy with two tuskers continuing to wreak havoc in Nilgiri block area in the past couple of weeks. Sources said that the efforts to shoo away the animals to ...