Ensuring quality: Organic farmers will soon get certified by the Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department, which will help them get a good price.

COIMBATORE: More than 50,000 acres across the State have been brought under organic certification programme, thanks to Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department's efforts.

As per the model, the right of ownership, control and maintenance will lie with Kerala. The cost of maintenance and construction of the dam will be the responsibility of TN
COUNSEL for Kerala on Tuesday submitted before the Supreme Court that the water-sharing policy for the proposed new dam at Mullaiperiyar could be modelled on Siruvani dam.

In a clever move aimed at defeating Tamil Nadu

M. Soundariya Preetha

Board contends that the fees were hiked after 13 years and is meagre for SMEs

The consent fees were hiked by nearly 500 per cent for some small-scale units

The hike is only 300 per cent to 450 per cent for large-scale units

V.S. Palaniappan

Coimbatore: During 2009-2010 nearly one lakh teak seedlings have been planted in farmlands in Coimbatore District by the Forest Division and Social Forestry Division under the project,

V.S. Palaniappan

Money is extracted after making false promises

Inform District Forest Office of illegal activities

Coimbatore: Forest Department has initiated a drive against tricksters thriving on forest properties and cheating people of huge money in the name of getting them forest properties that would bring them good luck, health and prosperity.

V Gangadharan | ENS

Expect a 15 per cent jump in tiger populationFOREST officials hope for a substantial increase in the tiger population in Tamil Nadu during the synchronised wildlife census exercise that is scheduled to begin towards the end of this month.

It had killed a five-year-old boy

CAGED: A four-year-old panther that was trapped by Forest Officials near Valparai in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve on Sunday night.

Coimbatore: Officials of the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) trapped a male panther aged about four years near Valparai, tranquilised and relocated it to a suitable habitat.

Coimbatore: District Collector P. Umanath along with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) officials held a public hearing at Sulur on Wednesday to elicit public opinion on the widening of the National Highway Number 47 from Chengapalli to Walayar.

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