DINDIGUL: Adukkam-Perumalmalai and Adukkam-Periakulam ghat roads were damaged massively, owing to torrential rain in the past one week.This five-metre wide and 33-km long road is the shortest route to Kodaikanal from Periakulam. Otherwise, tourists have to travel up to Batlagundu to use the 56-km-long Kodaikanal-Batlagundu ghat road to reach Kodaikanal and back.Even as the Perumalmalai-Adukkam-Periakulam...
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Plagued with various administrative problems and poor infrastructure, the Mother Teresa Women’s University at Kodaikanal has sought the intervention of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to “bring the university out of stagnation.”In a letter to the Chief Minister written four days back, the University requests to relax rules for the women’s university...
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KODAIKANAL: The Batlagundu-Kodaikanal Ghat Road will be positively opened for regular traffic on Wednesday as the Department of State Highways workers almost completed the clearing operation and waited for clearance from experts from the Geological Survey of India, according to State Highways Department officials.(The Ghat Road was closed on October 15 after a massive landslide that killed one person...
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A control room was set up at the collectorate with a toll free telephone service to get all flood related information and expedite relief measures, according to Collector M. Vallalar.In a release here on Monday, he said that special staff had been deputed to man this room round the clock. People may contact the control room either through toll free telephone number 1077 or through another phone number...
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The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has put in force revised load shedding schedule in the following urban and rural areas in the district from November 1:District Collectorate, Dindigul, Dindigul mill areas, Chitthargalnatham Mill feeder areas, Thadikombu, Innasipuram industrial area, Madha feeder industries, Thalayuthu Viscose feeder areas, Vittalnaickenpatti and Mani Mill feeder areas.Palani,...
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The Commercial Crime Investigation Wing police arrested Raja, former secretary of Vada Kavunji Cooperative Society in Kodaikanal, here on Monday on the charges of misappropriation of funds to the tune of Rs.3.29 lakh and financial malpractices during his tenure between 2004 and 2008.The police said he had misappropriated funds while disbursing salaries and festival advances to the society employees....
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DINDIGUL: The Batlagundu-Kodaikanal ghat road would be thrown open for regular traffic from Wednesday as the Department of Highways workers cleared all boulders and debris on the evening of Tuesday, said Collector M. Vallalar.Talking to media persons here on Tuesday, he said that all vehicles would be allowed to use this road from 6 a.m. on Wednesday.All loose rocks from a 150-foot-high peak had been...
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first time in India, a rescue dog squad has been set up in Tamil Nadu to help save human lives during calamities like earthquakes or even a building collapse.To begin with, the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Department has got five dogs that will be specially trained to sniff out survivors trapped in debris. These dogs will be trained for a year on an American model, to work long hours in adverse conditions."Because...
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DINDIGUL: Tribals from different villages on the Kodaikanal hill on Monday organised a demonstration here on Monday to flay a move to displace them from their land by Forest Department officials. They appealed to the government to implement the Forest Rights Act and redraw tribal areas.They alleged that forest officials prevented tribal people from collecting forest produces such as honey and firewood...
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Vallalar, left, exchanging a copy of the MoU with D. Nagaraja, Vice-Chancellor, NIMHANS, in Dindigul on Saturday.DINDIGUL: A pilot study on children with developmental disorders to be jointly done by both the district administration and National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, in Dindigul and Kodaikanal blocks in the district will be a model for policy makers to...
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