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AP PHOTOS: The scars of a 9.1 earthquake and tsunami continue to haunt Indians for decades
11 hours, 45 minutes ago

AP PHOTOS: The scars of a 9.1 earthquake and tsunami continue to haunt Indians for decades

Associated Press  

NAGAPATTINAM, India — He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the earth, and a tsunami struck from Indonesia to India two decades ago. The southern Tamil Nadu state government undertook repair, restoration, and rehabilitation activities with help from the Asian Development Bank and …

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Rain in delta
1 week, 4 days ago

Rain in delta

The Hindu  

Several parts of the Cauvery delta districts received moderate to heavy rain on Thursday under the influence of the well marked low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal. After receiving heavy to very heavy overnight rain, parts of Mayiladuthurai, Tiruvarur, and Nagapattinam districts continued to receive heavy rain during the day on Thursday. However, water from the fields had …

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Tamil Nadu coastal delta farmers stare at losses as 15,000 hectares of paddy inundated
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Tamil Nadu coastal delta farmers stare at losses as 15,000 hectares of paddy inundated

New Indian Express  

NAGAPATTINAM: Around 15,000 hectares of samba and thaladi paddy cultivation in the coastal delta districts have been inundated in the incessant rain lashing the region since Tuesday. The crop, however, is past 60 days of growth and hence could survive damage if the rainwater recedes from the fields soon, agriculture officials in the state and Puducherry said. In Mayiladuthurai, around …

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Rain alert: Nagapattinam farmers rush ‘late kuruvai’ harvest
4 weeks ago

Rain alert: Nagapattinam farmers rush ‘late kuruvai’ harvest

New Indian Express  

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 …

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Snag hits pumping station, water supply affected in Nagapattinam, Nagore, Velankanni
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Snag hits pumping station, water supply affected in Nagapattinam, Nagore, Velankanni

New Indian Express  

NAGAPATTINAM: A technical malfunction in the machinery pumping River Kollidam water to Nagapattinam has reduced the municipal water supply by nearly 30%. Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage board is currently repairing one of the horizontal split case pumps at the Velipalayam pumping station, which serves Nagapattinam, Nagore, Velankanni and surrounding panchayats. Nagapattinam municipality, which depends on the Kollidam Combined …

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Fishing boat from Nagapattinam capsized by Sri Lankan vessel
3 months, 1 week ago

Fishing boat from Nagapattinam capsized by Sri Lankan vessel

New Indian Express  

NAGAPATTINAM: A fishing boat from Nagapattinam district was allegedly rammed and capsized by a Sri Lankan naval craft near Kodiyakarai on Tuesday evening. According to sources, the group, consisting of K. Sakthivel, R. Devaraj, S. Karthikeyan, and S. Sathish from Seruthur, departed for fishing in a motorised boat registered under M. Dharman on Tuesday morning. S. Karthikeyan, one of the …

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Delta farmers may skip kuruvai for samba crop over 'delay' in River Cauvery water release
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Delta farmers may skip kuruvai for samba crop over 'delay' in River Cauvery water release

New Indian Express  

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 …

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Nagapattinam farmers demand kuruvai package
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Nagapattinam farmers demand kuruvai package

The Hindu  

Representatives of farmers in Nagapattinam district have urged the government to sanction compensation to those who could not raise kuruvai paddy because of want of water for irrigation in the Cauvery. Speaking at the monthly farmers grievance meeting chaired by Collector Johny Tom Varghese here on Thursday, they pointed out that in addition to the loss of income, several farmers …

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Oil spill in Nagapattinam coast | Upset with CPCL, fishermen threaten to intensify protest
1 year, 9 months ago

Oil spill in Nagapattinam coast | Upset with CPCL, fishermen threaten to intensify protest

The Hindu  

Dissatisfied with the work done by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited to plug the leak on the crude oil pipeline off the Nagapattinam coast, fishermen of Pattinamcherry and adjoining hamlets have threatened to intensify their protest from Monday. N. Sakthivel, a fisherman from Pattinamcherry, said CPCL officials informed the fishermen on Saturday that the leak was plugged. “When we demanded that …

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Cyclone Nivar | How preparedness took the edge off the storm
4 years ago

Cyclone Nivar | How preparedness took the edge off the storm

The Hindu  

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 …

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