Tamil Nadu Village

500 Tamil Nadu Villagers Boycott Election To Protest Against Pollution

Tamil Nadu News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday April 18, 2019

Around 500 voters in Nagaraja Kandigai village in the Tiruvallur Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu boycotted the election in protest against the functioning of a polluting sponge iron factory in their locality, said an official.

Leopard Cub Enters House, Hides Under Cot In Tamil Nadu Village

Tamil Nadu News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday February 5, 2019

A leopard cub strayed into a house and hid under a cot in a village in the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu today, the police said.

"US Trip Was About Tamil Nadu Villages": Kamal Haasan Before Big Reveal

Tamil Nadu News | Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin, Edited by Aloke Tikku | Friday February 16, 2018

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan, prepping for his first political meeting next Wednesday, has blamed governments in Tamil Nadu for not paying attention to the farm sector. "We are attempting to bury farming and the farmer," the actor has lamented, underlining that the state's rural belt dependent on agriculture would be a key focus area of his yet-to...

"Fed Up Of Complaining About Government's Inaction", Kamal Haasan Says In Harvard

Tamil Nadu News | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday February 12, 2018

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan says he is tired of complaining about governmental inaction, and wants to re-craft the polity in Tamil Nadu.

In This Tamil Nadu Village, 80 Young Men Who Went For Fishing Haven't Returned Home

Tamil Nadu News | Written by Sneha Mary Koshy | Wednesday December 13, 2017

In a non-descript fishing village in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari district, around 70 young men and experienced, elderly fishermen have set out into the sea in eight boats, with just one mission - to find their lost ones.

Overworked Mill Workers Are Now Policewomen: How They Turned Their Lives Around

Thomson Reuters Foundation | Friday August 4, 2017

Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu: Before the break of dawn, Muthulakshmi Mariappan slips out of her home and starts running. In the stillness of the morning, she gasps for breath but eggs herself on to run faster, take longer strides and ignore the thorns piercing her bare feet. For the 20-year-old spinning mill worker, running fast is a prerequisite to be...

In This Drought-Hit Tamil Nadu Village, Only Women Left In Search Of Water

| Friday May 5, 2017

Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu: As men migrate from drought-hit Tamil Nadu in search of work, it’s the village women who have taken charge of the situation in Nagapattinam district. Severe scarcity of water has not only caused a mass exodus leading to a collapse of the agrarian economy, but has also affected the subsidiary jobs. In Meenambanallur villa...

Help Me Bribe This Officer, Teen Said. Entire Tamil Nadu Village Followed

Tamil Nadu News | Written by J Sam Daniel Stalin | Monday August 29, 2016

The video of a teen boy, begging on the streets of his village in Tamil Nadu, went viral. K Ajit Kumar, needed to raise Rs 3,000, the amount demanded by a local official as a bribe, so that Ajit's family could get the money it is entitled to as compensation for the death of his father, a farmer.

2 Tamil Nadu Villages Linked To Nobel Laureates To Become Wi-Fi Hotspots

Tamil Nadu News | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday June 18, 2016

Two small Tamil Nadu villages where two physics Nobel Laureates - C V Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - had their roots will be networked by Wi-Fi hotspots on June 20, said a top official of Microsense India.

5 Elephants Stray Near Tamil Nadu Village, Locals Asked To Stay Indoors

Tamil Nadu News | Written by J Sam Daniel Stalin | Sunday June 5, 2016

A herd of five elephants that strayed into a village in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district have turned into a nightmare for locals.

3,000 Ancient Artefacts Found In A Tamil Nadu Village

Tamil Nadu News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 30, 2016

A signet made of clay with ornamental design was among the about 3,000 ancient artefacts found at the Keezhadi Pallai Sandhaipudur village in this district during an excavation conducted by the team of experts from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

Villagers Protest Closure Of Liquor Shop In Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu News | Press Trust of India | Saturday April 16, 2016

Protesting the closure of a state-run liquor shop in Anaikatty village of this district near Tamil Nadu-Kerala border, following agitations by tribal women of the neighbouring state, nearly 200 people today blocked the road and demanded its reopening.

Unique Banana Throwing Festival Celebrated In Tamil Nadu Village

Tamil Nadu News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday January 19, 2016

Come third day of Tamil month 'Thai' every year, it rains bananas at a nearby village temple as devotees offer the fruit in large quantity to the presiding deity and then throw them on the gathering outside.

Leopard on Prowl in Tamil Nadu Village

South | Press Trust of Inda | Monday June 8, 2015

A leopard has been on the prowl in a village in Thalawady forest and has killed two goats, triggering panic among the residents.

15 Goats Die of Mystery Disease in Tamil Nadu Village

South | Press Trust of India | Thursday December 4, 2014

A day after the death of 40 chickens and hens in a farm on the outskirts of Coimbatore triggered panic due to prevalence of H5N1 virus in nearby Kerala, 15 goats died of a mysterious disease in a village in the same area, police said.