Facing an acute paucity of funds, Chennai’s premier social science thinktank, the Madras Institute of Development Studies, popularly known as MIDS, has reached out to Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Dr Palanivel Thiagarajan for financial support from the state government. Dr Thiagarajan was the...
This year we have seen the Cauvery in spate and its course in Tamil Nadu filled with water and much water flowing into the sea. This has led to talk in Karnataka, backed by figures, that an additional dam at Mekedatu would make better use of surplus water during times of good flow. The Cauvery...
The appointment of lithium ion expert N Kalaiselvi, director of Central ElectroChemical Research Institute at Karaikudi, as the Director General of the country premier research body, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is both a symbolic as well as practical decision....
