
Officials honoured in Virudhunagar
The Hindu
Honouring officials from Revenue, Rural Development and Water Resources departments for keeping the water bodies intact, Virudhunagar Collector J. Meganath Reddy has said that it is for farmers to uti
Honouring officials from Revenue, Rural Development and Water Resources departments for keeping the water bodies intact, Virudhunagar Collector J. Meganath Reddy has said that it is for farmers to utilise the copious water for irrigation in a judicious manner.
Speaking at the monthly farmers’ grievance meeting at the Collectorate on Friday, he said effective planning by the district administration at different levels and coordination with Water Users’ Association, among others, enabled filling up of all major tanks across the district.

The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











