HELP INDEED: Divisional Railway Manager Anil Singhal inaugurating battery-operated car service at Madurai railway station.
MADURAI: In an effort to help the differently abled, elderly and sick passengers navigate easily among the crowd at the railway station and to transport their luggage, a battery operated four-seater car service was launched at the railway station here on Monday.
People have to sacrifice a little so that the posterity is benefited
The decision to acquire those lands was just and equitable
Article 300 empowers State to take over any land for public purpose
The fine granite dust coming out of the burners of the quarry covered the entire area and even polluted drinking water in the village }
VILLAGERS of Adanchan Kanmaipatti submitted a petition to the District Collector during the weekly grievances day on Monday, seeking closure of a PRP granite-quarrying unit in that locality.
MADURAI: An allocation of Rs.53.25 lakh has been made under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) to help 4,570 poor children in Madurai district through various intervention programmes this academic year.
L. Srikrishna
For firecracker unit accident that claimed 17 lives
Cyclic effect would have caused explosion
Factory has licence for storing explosives
MADURAI: The firecracker unit accident that claimed the lives of 17 persons, including children, at Vadakampatti was more due to
Farmers demand release of water for irrigation
THENI: Storage level in the Periyar dam crossed the minimum required level 112 feet to enable public works engineers to release water for irrigation here on Tuesday evening.
Water level stood at 112.5 feet on Tuesday, thanks to a massive increase in inflow to the dam and intermittent showers for the past three days.
Madurai, May 25 The European Union and the Netherlands-based Oxfam-Novib in association with the Madurai-based DHAN Foundation will assist in the implementation of a project to develop water resources in the rural areas in five districts.
