Surreal beach sight: Half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living
We were on a beach, somewhere close to Puducherry. It was a surreal sight: half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or cyclone, but by the eroded beach.
Data to be compiled within a week
Udhagamandalam: A census operation to update data relating to the population of wild animals in the Nilgiris North and South divisions and Gudalur got underway here on Friday with a training session for volunteers organised by the Forest Department with the help of the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association (NWLEA) and the World Wide Fund for Nature.
TIRUCHI: Tamil Nadu is the most critically affected among the Southern States owing to over exploitation of ground water resource, observed D.S.C.Thambi, Regional Director, Central Ground Water Board, Chennai, here on Wednesday.
Of the 385 blocks, over 142 blocks were over-exploited in the State.
New Delhi: For the second year in a row, Puducherry is the number one state in terms of Educational Development Index (EDI) at the elementary level (class I to VII/VIII), followed by Lakshadweep and Kerala.
Kerala has made remarkable progress in primary education
New Delhi: Swine flu cases are going up by the day in the country. One of the major causes has been the prolonged monsoon, helping the deadly virus to infect a lot more people.
As the government struggles to incorporate nutritional aspects in the proposed right to food legislation, the industry has come forward in support of right to nutrition and offered to engage with the government as partner, the way it got its act together in the 1990s to produce iodine fortified salt.
Incessant rain triggered flash floods in Rajouri and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir
HEAVY rains lashed most parts of north India for another day on Wednesday, triggering flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir and pushing up water levels in rivers of Punjab and Haryana resulting in flooding of more low-lying are
Olive Ridley turtles are on the verge of extinction as 90 per cent of their eggs are stolen
THE endangered Olive Ridley turtles in Puducherry coast have got a fresh lease of life as two youth have taken a pledge to protect the dwindling number of the marine species from extinction.
