Residents of Kavundampalayam Municipality and Vadavalli Town Panchayat have been complaining about poor water quality for the last two months.

They say that River Bhavani water quality was poor and it carried an unpleasant taste.

The city's administration aims to elevate the stature of Coimbatore so that its infrastructure can compare with the best in the country.

WHEN a slew of development projects were placed before successive meetings of the Coimbatore Corporation Council in 2005-06 for its approval, the refrain at every session was

M. Soundariya Preetha

Workers migrating from other districts for jobs in windmills

REAPING THE benefits:Wind farms that have sprung up near Coimbatore have provided employment to many in the villages.

Production of disposable plastic items to be stopped
COIMBATORE: Coimbatore Corporation has intensified its resolve to fight against plastics by asking manufacturers to stop production of use-and-throw items.
The manufacturers shall be asked to stop production of plastic tumblers, plates, carry bags and other items that people in the city use, said a resolution passed at the Environmental Protec

V.S. Palaniappan

METTUPALAYAM: A team of 50 forest officials has been battling hard since Monday morning to reunite a new born female elephant calf with its mother in the Odanthurai Reserve Forest area at Mettuppalayam, Coimbatore.

Quoting villagers, the officials said a herd of seven elephants had been wandering along the reserve forest border since Sunday night. Around 5.30 a.m.

Karthik Madhavan

Litter-free:Coimbatore may soon have clean roads, as the Corporation has initiated efforts to improve waste management.

COIMBATORE: The over 90 vehicles the Coimbatore Corporation uses to transport solid waste will double their trip in a month's time.

From four trips a day a lorry, it will go up to eight.

Exposure to Endosulfan could lead to male infertility, says a study conducted by a doctor in Coimbatore even as reports from Kasaragod indicate that the Kerala Government

The new nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy policy provides implicit incentives to farmers to test soil samples regularly and get crop-wise recommended doses of nutrients, and offers prospective benefits from the agro-environmental management point of view.

Radio collaring exercise being experimented

New model elephant proof trenches to be set up

Coimbatore: Forest Minister N. Selvaraj said Tamil Nadu would soon adopt satellite-aided radio collaring method to track movement of elephant herds to prevent man-animal conflicts along the forest boundaries.

COIMBATORE: Either side of Race Course Road offer contrasting pictures to point out the benefit of having rain water harvesting structures along roads.

What was once a stagnation point turns bone dry now even after heavy rain because of the structure close to the Income-Tax office.

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