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Micro vans to aide tribal children’s education in TN's Kalvarayan Hills

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 …

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Houses damaged due to rain, tribals of TN's Thirumoorthy hills seek new dwellings

TIRUPPUR: After a sidewall of a house collapsed on Sunday due to the incessant rain over the last few days, people living in tribal villages in the foothills of Thirumoorthy Hill appealed the government to build new houses. N Manikandan, state committee member of Tamil Nadu Tribal People’s Association, said, “As many as 110 tribal families live in the foothill. …

COIMBATORE: A team of scientists from SACON in Anaikatti, has discovered a new frog species during a two-year study in Meghalaya. They have named the species as ‘Raorchestes asakgrensis’, after the Eman Asakgre Community Reserve in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, where it was discovered, to honour the people who supported them. The team also rediscovered two more species – …

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. …