ENVIRONMENTALISTS here took the Chipko movement to a whole new level on Monday by performing a milk abhishekam for trees that were felled to widen roads ahead of the World Classical Tamil Conference scheduled to be held in June.
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation has called upon meat stalls in the city to store the waste in bio-degradable bags and hand these over to the Corporation workers instead of dumping these in the drainage and under bridges.
A ONE-AND-A-HALF-YEAROLD elephant was found dead at the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History in Anaikatty, near here. The post-mortem report revealed that the calf that had come to quench thirst died due to hepatitis B besides severe parasite infection.
Tirupur: The powerloom cloth manufacturers affiliated to the Coimbatore-Tirupur districts Powerloom Cloth Manufacturers Federation, observed a fast here on Wednesday in protest against the frequent rise in the prices of cotton yarn.
MARUMALARCHI Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), general secretary Vaiko was arrested along with 153 party workers on Friday while attempting to enter Kerala from the Onpadharu check post to inspect the site where the Kerala government had decided to construct a dam across the Pambar river.
The elephant was found roaming along the reserve forest at Odanthurai
The pachyderm was suffering with a swollen injured leg
Coimbatore: The forest officials have begun an effort to bring a 10-year-old wild elephant found roaming along the reserve forest at Odanthurai with a swollen injured leg.
Plan to carry out a door-to-door awareness drive in Mettupalayam
To rid of waste:Chairperson of Mettupalayam Municipality Satyavati Ganesh (second right) hands over a garbage collection bag to a resident
COIMBATORE: Wealth out of Waste, a project under which paper waste and plastic bags are bought from houses and shops, began in Mettupalayam Municipality in the district on Thursday.
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation plans to turn nearly 200 public toilets smell-free, including those in the integrated sanitary complexes constructed in areas where the below poverty line families live.
Ozone sterilisers will be installed in the toilets to rid these of smell.
FOR ENVIRONMENT: Registrar of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University P. Subbian speaking at a training programme on pesticide management at the university in Coimbatore.
COIMBATORE: According to the World Health Organisation, one million human pesticide poisoning cases are reported all over the world with one-third of these occurring in farm workers.
REVIEW: Coimbatore Corporation Assistant Engineer K. Karuppusamy (right) explains to Mayor R. Venkatachalam (second right) and Deputy Mayor N. Karthik (left) the construction of a water tank under the Pilloor Phase II drinking water scheme at Ganapathy in the city on Sunday.
