THE Dharmapuri forest department officials have recovered eleven monitor lizards from the kitchens of two restaurants here on Thursday.
According to the forest ranger L Mahilan, a team of officials led by forester Sivasubramaniyam had intercepted two highway restaurants near Sogathur crossroad.
They reportedly found 11 monitor lizards that were kept in cages for cooking purpose.
It is an intense, but a lone battle, being fought in the non-descript classrooms of schools in remote and dusty villages in Salem and Dharmapuri districts against the emerging threat
DHARMAPURI: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government has put on hold the Integrated Hogenakkal Drinking Water Project just to help Congress, its alliance partner, win in Karnataka in the elections, accused Ramadoss, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder.
CHENNAI: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide about Rs.800 crore more for the Hogenekkal Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project.
This tranche is for covering Hosur and adjoining areas of Krishnagiri district under the project, according to a senior official of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, which is the executing agency.
AS many as 200 students, including 90 girls, of standard I to VIII of the Asthagiriyur Panchayat Union Middle School in Morappur block were admitted to the Dharmapuri Government Medical College Hospital in the area, after they complained of vomiting on Thursday.
Out of the total strength of 389 students, 364 were present in the school on Thursday and 200 students were supplied with boiled egg along with noon meal.
WHEN former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders crossed the Cauvery in a coracle into Tamil Nadu at Hogenekkal in Dharmapuri district on March 16 and shouted slogans demanding that Tamil Nadu should not implement the drinking water supply project it had planned there, they triggered a fresh dispute over the sharing of the river
This paper tracks the organizational and financial history of the Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) and the self-help group (SHG) network it supports in Tamil Nadu, India.
