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RAMANATHAPURAM: For the second consecutive day, rain lashed parts of Ramanathapuram, especially the coastal areas, on Thursday. Though the water has drained off from most parts, some of the low-lying areas are still inundated in Mandabam, Pamban and Rameswaram, which endured a massive cloud burst on Wednesday. According to the IMD reports, the district on Wednesday received an average of …

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Fishermen Explain The Reason Behind Receding Sea Water Level From Rameswaram Coastline

With summer almost here, the level of seawater is constantly receding in Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram leaving fishermen in great distress. Speaking to News18 Tamil, Jerome, a fisherman from Rameswaram, explained why the water level of the sea has been constantly receding near the coastline. From the outside, it looks like a wave but the current in the sea runs like …

Rameswaram: A group of Indian fishermen were allegedly attacked by Sri Lankan Navy personnel when they were fishing near the island nation's waters and a boat was sunk following a collision, a senior Fisheries department official said here. As many as seven fishermen who were in the boat fell into the water following the collision with the Lankan Navy vessel …

RAMESWARAM: In a feat of sorts, a priest from undivided Uttar Pradesh completed a nearly 3000-km long 'padayatra' carrying 'Ganga Jal ' from the Ganga river source of Gangotri, when he reached the pilgrim-island of Rameswaram on Tuesday. Praying to the Lord for blessing the world with enough water endowments and elimination of drought and water shortage, the priest Rathnakar …

Rameswaram: In a throwback to the grim memories of the pre-Tsunami moments of December 2004, people of Rameswaram found to their shock and surprise that the sea water had receded by about 400 metres early on Tuesday. Patches along the coast in the pilgrim-island suddenly turned dry, uncovering a lot of plastic and other wastes that had been submerged along …