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CHENNAI: Working towards addressing the challenges faced by children from tribal areas in accessing formal education, the Tribal Welfare Department is planning to launch a pilot initiative to provide micro vans to four schools on Kalvarayan Hills of Kallakurichi district. In tribal areas, children have to trek several kilometres through hills and forests to reach the schools due to the …

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M K Stalin inaugurated ‘Vizhuthugal’, a one-stop centre to provide health-related rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities at Kannagi Nagar in Sholinganallur on Monday. The building, which previously housed a de-addiction centre, was refurbished at a cost of Rs 3.08 crore by the Department of Welfare of Differently-Abled Persons under the TN RIGHTS Project. It will offer …

NILGIRIS: A tusker believed to be aged 35 years suffocated to death after it got stuck in a swamp in a banana plantation at Thenvayal near Gudalur on Sunday morning. Forest department sources said the animal may have come to the plantation in search of food and water in the early hours of Sunday. After daybreak, locals saw the elephant …

ERODE: The mastermind behind a poaching gang was arrested from Karnataka by the Tamil Nadu forest department on Sunday in connection with the killing of an 18-year-old male elephant and poaching of its tusks at Thalavadi in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve of Erode district. As per sources, on April 22, frontline staff of the department while conducting their regular patrol in …

A wild elephant, aged between 18 and 20 years, was found dead with its tusks missing at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Talavadi Hills, Erode district, on April 22. During a routine patrol, a Forest Department team found the fully decomposed carcass in a forest near Gumtapuram village in the Talavadi Forest Range of Hasanur Division, and alerted senior officials. …

MAYILADUTHURAI: A leopard was spotted in the streets of Mayiladuthurai on Tuesday night. After confirming its presence, dozens of personnel from forest, fire and police departments have been searching for the leopard since Wednesday morning. Residents from Semmangulam in Mayiladuthurai reported to the police about the leopard roaming in the streets around midnight. An official from the police department said, …

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RAMANATHAPURAM: In order to increase the district's green cover and bioshield in coastal regions, the forest department has planted more than 2.5 lakh trees under the Green Tamil Nadu Mission in the past two weeks. The district has a total of 3,150 hectares of shelter belt in coastal areas, out of which more than 450 hectares of area consists of …

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and Irrigation Department officials will shortly hold a meeting to discuss the situation arising out of poor monsoon rains and the demand for release of water from Tamil Nadu, according to Mandya district in-charge Minister Cheluvarayaswamy. While the State requires water for drinking purpose, Tamil Nadu had placed a demand for release …

Phanindra Reddy named secretary of T.N.’s Natural Resources Department

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday named senior IAS officer K. Phanindra Reddy the Secretary of the Natural Resources Department. Praveen Kumar is set to assume office as Madurai Corporation Commissioner, S. Balachander will assume office as Commissioner of Salem Corporation. Mr. Reddy, as the head of the Natural Resources Department, will supervise the functioning of Geology and Mining Department, …

RAMANATHAPURAM: As the turtle hatching season has commenced in the district, nearly 12,000 eggs have been collected by the forest department so far. The forest department has organised a week-long awareness campaign in the district, in view of Wildlife Day on March 3 and the onset of turtle hatching season. The Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve gains significance during the …

The annual bird survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department in a number of wetlands, showed a significant drop in the number of bird species at the Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary and the Karikili Bird Sanctuary in Chengalpattu districts, and the Pulicat Bird Sanctuary in Tiruvallur district. The Pulicat Bird Sactuary saw marginal drop in the number of species from …

The head of a deceased 10-year-old girl, who was buried over a week ago, went missing from her grave in Chitravadi village near Madhuranthakam in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district. Based on this complaint, police, in the presence of the district medical department officials and the district revenue department officials, dug the grave open and were shocked to find the girl’s …

A committee has been created by the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowements department, which sought petitions from ‘persons having interest’ in the Chidambaram Nataraja temple’s management. The committee claims that 19,405 petitions were received, out of which 14,098 petitions mentioned irregularities in temple management and mentioned some complaints too. Dikshithars have swindled gold ornaments worth several crores from …