COIMBATORE: Public consultation meetings will be held at Udumalpet and Pollachi on June 4 to get feedback on the proposed four-lane work on National Highway 209 from Dindigul to Coimbatore.
Project Director of National Highways Authority of India-Coimbatore P. Manivannan told The Hindu on Friday that the meeting would be held at 10 a.m.
Tirupur: Farmers dependent on the Amaravathy river irrigation systems have appealed to the State government seeking enhancement of irrigation infrastructure for augmenting agriculture production in Tirupur, Coimbatore and Karur districts.
Lingam Chinnasamy, general secretary of Amaravathy Nathineer Pasanai Pathukkappu Iyyakkam, pointed out that desilting had not been carried out in Amaravathy d
A severe blow to the people, says MDMK
COIMBATORE: The common man is feeling the pinch of the recent petrol price hike. The oil marketing companies hiked the price of petrol by Rs. 5 from Saturday midnight.
This is the ninth hike since June 2010, after the Union Government had allowed the companies to revise the price in keeping with the fluctuations in the international market.
Disposal of napkins raised as a concern at consultative meet
TIRUCHI: Aiming to maximise sensitisation on menstrual hygiene management and integrate it with total sanitation, the Menstrual Hygiene Management Corporation (MHMC) decentralised its operations following the UNICEF-sponsored state-level annual consultative meeting at the Kalaiarangam Hall here on Sunday.
Coimbatore: The Forest Department in Coimbatore is planning to assess the number of tigers in Coimbatore forests and reorient its strategy to protect the animal following sighting of a tiger for the third time in Sirumugai range of the Coimbatore forest. District Forest Officer V.
Domestic consumers also evincing interest in solar energy
COIMBATORE: Increasing power cut here, which has disturbed production plans in several industries, has encouraged many to explore renewable energy options.
During the last one year, nearly 1,000 MW was added to the installed wind energy capacity in the State. The State has about 1,930 wind farms.
COIMBATORE: Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam (KNMK) has written to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeking help to solve the issues that confront the Tirupur knitwear cluster.
Water level in Siruvani Dam is steadily coming down.
COIMBATORE: Hardly a few weeks into summer, Coimbatore has started feeling the impact of fall in water supply.
All eyes are on the dipping water level at the Siruvani Dam.
As of Saturday, the dam had a little more than 17 feet water.
COIMBATORE: Residents of Thendral Nagar in Kavundampalayam Municipality are troubled by the quality of water they get. The area and other localities in the Municipality and Vadavalli Town Panchayat get water under the Bhavani Combined Drinking Water Scheme.
Dramatic reverses in Ariyalur and Cuddalore
Female literacy has improved in State
CHENNAI: While the overall child sex ratio has improved in Tamil Nadu, the dip in the boy-girl ratio in at least 14 districts, including Chennai, provides the demographic downside in the provisional population figures of the 2011 Census released on Friday.
According to the datasheet, the child sex ratio (CSR) in
