CHENNAI: Encroachments on Keerai Thottam in the Adyar river at Saidapet will be removed on Wednesday.

KOLLAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has said that the databank on paddy fields lying barren in the State will be published soon.

Ahmedabad: As many as 30 farmers from a coastal village in south Gujarat have moved Gujarat High Court to stop a power generation company from filling up low-lying areas in order to protect their village and agriculture fields from submerging during high tides.

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has found a new road to prevent encroachments as it begins work of replacing the 12.3km water pipeline network between Maroshi and Ruparel College. An underground tunnel will be constructed to overcome the problem of inequitable distribution of water and cut down on leakages.

Dhakabashi yesterday formed a human chain demanding the river Buriganga be saved from pollution and illegal encroachment.

The organisation also brought out a procession from Hazaribagh Park.

The speakers at the human chain said the place from Babupura Bridge to Amin Bazar can be made a beautiful one like Ashulia, but the government needs to evict the encroachers first.

The 12 students of Sonshi Government Primary School in Sattari have nothing, but mining dust for company during their school hours. There is no playground or any open space in front of the school. No sooner the students step out of their classrooms they are catapulted into the thick of mining activities.

MUMBAI: Mumbai's infrastructure agencies have come under fire for focusing only on the capital intensive sea-link, iconic tower and metro rail projects and "ignoring the medium and short-term transportation infrastructure solutions''.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, a farmers

Sept 12: A three-member committee appointed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court to assess the removal of encroachments in Kolleru lake informed the apex court that the encroachments are yet to be cleared and water is spread in the lake in 77,000 acres as against 2.5 lakh acres.