Cauvery calamity

Promotion of water-guzzling crops like rice is leading to maximum utilisation of river waters in India. The Cauvery dispute between Karnataka and …

Vaccine to prevent viral infection in hens

Scientists in Madras gave come up with a vaccine that would help leash a viral disease that impairs the egg-laying ability of hens, and is often …

Wind power projects push land costs sky-high

Helped by state government concessions, Tamil Nadu is all set to expand its wind forms and become the country's premier wind-energy centre.

Labourers become quarry managers

Women quarry-workers in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district have formed cooperatives and are managing the same granite quarries where they once …

Irula tribals put their skills to new uses

Institutional support helped rehabilitate the Irulas of Tamil Nadu after their traditional occupation of snake-catching was outlawed.

Protein - rich algae fatten kids

A noon meal food supplement consisting of a blue-green algae was provided to schoolchildren on a trial basis in Pudukottai district, with …

Officials shed crocodile tears

Crocodiles today abound in captive breeding centres in India. But the government still applies to them a protection law that was relevant two …

Biotechnology assures leap in production

Tissue culture can change the face of agriculture, asserts Ajit Thomas, who heads a firm that has gone in a big way for biotechnology …

Much-maligned bats need more protection

Scientists insist bats are a muck-maligned bats mammal that in fact plays a crucial role in the propagation of several plant species

Unconventional approach to AIDS control

Voluntary groups in Madras are taking up the onus of increasing AIDS awareness among various groups including students, blue-collar workers and …

How many trees for a political tamasha?

Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram's self-boosting extravaganza in Madurai has cost the nation an estimated 40,000 litres of precious …

Tamil catamarans go plastic

A new kind of fishing raft is replacing the traditional ones along the Madras coast