Tamil Nadu

SC sets aside Punjab's order quashing water-sharing agreement with Haryana

Long necked, rosy white birds with heavy pink bills stand etched across the horizon. These are the flamingos that fly miles from across Iran’s Caspian Sea and the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, to reach the inland waters of Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.

More fund over the budgetary allocation sought for MGNREGA

For hundreds of years, tanks, both big and small, served people and cattle alike in Tamil Nadu. Chennai’s neighbouring district of Kancheepuram was the the wealthiest when it came to water through these means.

Forest clearance to Yettinahole project gets challenged

NABARD sanctions loan to NWDA for irrigation projects

Long-time Kottur resident Narayanan’s earliest memories of the Buckingham canal are those of the famed salt and timber-laden wooden catamarans of the 1950s and the 60s. A namesake of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the erstwhile governor of Madras, the canal was initially constructed as a brackish water-navigation channel in the early 1800s, connecting the north of Madras with Ennore.

Cauvery dispute: New Supreme Court bench constituted

J&K govt to construct ‘mini dams’ for irrigation

Rains cause havoc in Hyderabad while Mumbai lakes, dams overflow with water