Slum dwellers will be re-located in good tenements, says Commissioner
ASSERTIVE: Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) explains to councillors at an emergency meeting of the Council on Tuesday that people in slums encroaching water bodies will have to be re-located. Mayor R. Venkatachalam (second right) is in the picture.
Focus on blanket sellers from UP and MP
Villagers asked to report movement of strangers
Monsoon patrolling begun in the forests
COIMBATORE: The Department of Forests is carrying out to a drive to check offences in the Pollachi forests.
On June 11, the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the current worldwide epidemic of the new influenza virus A(H1N1), commonly called swine flu, to the status of a pandemic, the highest level of global alert. This is the first flu pandemic in 41 years. The last one was the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
Coimbatore, June 18 Industries in and around Coimbatore, which are facing acute water shortage, have been extended a lifeline by the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Ltd (NTADCL). It has offered to share the surplus water available with it with the industries here.
FOR CLEAN CITY: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (second left) and Deputy Mayor N. Karthik (second right) display stickers with guidelines on segregation of waste, launched on World Environment Day in the Coimbatore Corporation on Saturday.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Forest Minister Benoy Viswom wrote to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, calling for measures to prevent recurring deaths of wild animals on the railway track between Palakkad and Coimbatore.
