NAGAPATTINAM: Farmers are speeding up the harvest of late ‘kuruvai’ paddy crops in view of the heavy rain alert for November 25 and 26. Also the district administration and the agriculture department had warned that if farmers started cultivating kuruvai with medium duration variety in August, it might sustain damage in monsoon rains in November. Despite the warnings, weather risks …
NAGAPATTINAM: Even as farmers in the district celebrated the opening of the Mettur dam on Sunday, several of them, pointing to the River Cauvery water release coming after a near 50-day gap from the customary date of June 12, expressed doubts on pursuing a successful kuruvai cultivation now. Following the opening of the Mettur dam shutters around 3 pm on …
Fifteen fishermen from Karaikal in Puducherry and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu, were arrested early on Friday, March 15, 2024, by the Sri Lankan Navy. This is at least the third such incident in March alone and at least the sixth this year: on March 10, the Sri Lankan Navy arrested 15 fishermen including two from Puducherry’s Karaikal district and 13 …
The passenger ferry service from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka is scheduled to start on Saturday, an official of the Nagapattinam Shipping Harbour Department said. Tamil Nadu to start ferry service from Nagapattinam to Sri Lanka from tomorrow While the ticket fee for going to Sri Lanka was earlier fixed at ₹7670 per person, the officials of the …
Since December 2015, Chennai residents have lived in fear of a monsoon crippling life as they know it. The Tamil Nadu government had deputed senior IAS officers and Ministers to coordinate preparatory measures like shifting of people from low-level and vulnerable areas to safer places, mobilising equipment and taking post-landfall measures along with the Collectors. Meanwhile, the 2015-like calamitous flooding …
Chennai is set to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall as a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal remains 650 km away from the city currently, expected to strengthen and convert into Cyclone Nivar and cross the coast between Mamallapuram and Karaikal on November 25. Deputy Director of the regional meteorological centre in Chennai S Balachandran said rain would …
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