Tamil Nadu

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How the Farmers of Puducherry Are Fighting to Save Its Irrigation Tanks

Seetha Gopalakrishnan 29/09/2016

Even as villagers are fighting to save Puducherry’s cascading...

The Cauvery near Mysuru. Credit: Shashidhara Halady/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Soon, We May Not Have a Cauvery River to Fight Over

Nityanand Jayaraman 18/09/2016

Both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu view the river as...

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Bengaluru Ranks Second in Water Wastage, Loses Half its Supply

Alison Saldanha, INDIASPEND.ORG 17/09/2016

As much as 49% of the water supplied to...

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Holding His Ground Against the Sand Raiders of Tamil Nadu

Sibi Arasu 26/06/2016

S. Mugilan confronts the state’s mining mafias, even as...

Patients being shifted from a flooded hospital after heavy rains in Chennai on Tuesday. Credit: PTI

How Official Negligence Turned a Natural Crisis into a Human-Made Catastrophe

Sandhya Ravishankar 09/12/2015

The Tamil Nadu government was grossly negligent in failing...