Rotting garbage on the streets poses health hazard in Erode
Staff Reporter
ERODE: The rotting garbage piled up on the streets of Erode town is turning into a serious health hazard as miscreants, and in some cases the civic workers themselves, have begun setting the waste afire.
On Friday miscreants set afire to heaps of garbage including huge amounts of plastic waste dumped on a vacant land
ERODE: Farmers in the district have appealed to the authorities to initiate concrete efforts to prevent illegal quarrying of sand in the rivers and other water sources in Erode district.
Participating in their grievances redressal meeting held here on Friday, farmers alleged that illegal sand mining with political backing was rampant in Gobichettipalayam, Sathyamangalam, Bhavani and many other
ERODE: Farmers in the district should come forward to learn and adopt water conservation techniques, District Rural Development Agency Project Officer N. Srinivasan has said.
Participating at an awareness and skill development programme organised by the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI ) at Ayalur village near Gobichettipalayam on Monday, Mr.
After straying into human habitat, tusker is taken back to the forest
The release of the over 25-year-old marked the end of a 20-hour-operation
The 4.5-tonne animal did not attack people or damage property
ERODE: A male panther was found dead in the Hassanur forest range in the Sathyamangalam division in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning. It is suspected that the animal was poisoned to death.
Forest personnel found the carcass of the grown-up animal at Sivan Irukan Pallam and informed senior officials.
Untreated effluents discharged into water channels
Units in BP Agraharam,and Kaniravurtharkulam found guilty
Revenue officials conducting raid in a tannery unit at Mamarathupalayam in Erode on Wednesday.
ERODE: A team of officials from the revenue department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) conducted surprise checks at the tannery units in few parts of the district on Wednes
ERODE: The Kalingarayan Pasana Sabhai has urged the State government to initiate concrete measures to check the discharge of untreated effluents of textile and tannery units into the water carrying channels.
IF New Delhi Metallo-betalactamase (NDM-1)is the latest superbug that is threatening humans, crops too have their share of superbugs.
One of them is Papaya Millibug, a pest which has reportedly destroyed most of the crops in Puducherry and southern Tamil NaduCoimbatore, Erode and Tirupattur.
N Ganesh of CEAD, an NGO that works with the farmers of the Thavaluppam are
