New buildings will be constructed to house Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board offices and laboratories in seven centres across the State during 2014-15 at a cost of Rs.
ERODE: More than 100 people including women and children fell ill with a mysterious fever in Kadambur, a forest hamlet in Sathyamangalam reserve forest in Erode district.
ERODE: Members of Uzavar Uzhaipalar Katchi (UUK) protested in front of the head post office in Erode district on Wednesday against the sale of genetically modified seeds by the central and state go
Having suffered setbacks for years due to inadequacy of water for cultivation, farmers in the district now dread indications of El Nino weather phenomenon affecting the South-West monsoon pattern.
Farmers in Erode district, where water shortage for cultivation keeps recurring, are pinning their hopes on the sincerity of the new BJP Government at the Centre to implement the river-linking proj
Before the onset of summer, the Forest Department here has started identifying existing waterholes in the Sathyamangalam forests that needs to be deepened.
Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum appeals to Centre, State
The Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum (VCWF) has appealed to the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government to sincerely and expeditiously implement all the directions of the Supreme Court, issued on August 28, 1996, on a writ petition filed by VCWF in respect of the pollution caused by tanneries in the five districts of Vellore, Erode, Dindigul, Tiruchi and Kancheepuram.
A considerable increase in the number of direct sighting of tigers was recorded in the eight-day tiger population estimation taken up in four tiger reserves in the State.
According to wildlife authorities in Aanamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) in Pollachi, three tigers were directly sighted and a similar number was reported in the newly formed Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in Erode also.
