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A small solar-powered mill changes tribal lives in the hills
A solar-powered millet milling machine has brought rays of sunshine to the lives of the people living in a tribal-dominated village, who are happy that the machine has mitigated their difficulties in food preparation. Kathirimalai located in the Anthiyur area of Erode district is home to 75...
Lack of innovative technology could scuttle TN’s aims of enhanced ethanol production
India aims to reduce imports of fossil fuels by achieving 20% ethanol blending with gasoline from April 2023. A nationwide rollout is planned from 2025-26. At present, India’s ethanol production capacity is 426 crore litres from sugarcane-based distilleries and 258 crore litres from grain-based...
A grand Chola museum may bring tourism infra to Thanjai
As a seat of ancient Tamil glory with a thousand-year heritage, the composite district of Thanjavur should have received the highest attention from latter-day governments, but except for the Brihadeeswara Temple complex, a UNESCO heritage site of international importance, it is just another...
Other states’ tribal folk forced into ‘bonded labour’ in TN
There has been a rising trend of tribal people from other states being brought into Tamil Nadu and forced to labour for long hours and low wages in work such as sugarcane harvesting. The Tamil Nadu government has been urged to act against bonded labour and provide proper facilities to the...
Why does PMK see red in NLC expansion plan?
The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) is up in arms against the land acquisition move for the Neyveli Lignite Corporation's (NLC) third mine expansion project. The party has been insisting that land owners who part with their lands for the project, be given a guarantee of employment in NLC. But one...
TN State Budget has no tech solutions for urban issues
The State budget is as important as the Union budget, no importance has been given to pre-budget debate on important issues at the district level even in a state like Tamil Nadu, which claims to be a model state for the country. The state government has not decentralised decision-making either....
Sangeetha Kalanidhi award for singer Bombay Jayashree
The Music Academy has announced awards for 2023 for some exponents of Carnatic music. There are scores of music aficionados and even general fans who eagerly wait for this award announcement every year. Bombay Jayashree has been chosen for this year's Sangeetha Kalanidhi Award. She joins Sudha...
TN Organic Farming Policy lacks vision and action plans
Before the industrial revolution and the large-scale production of chemicals opened up farming to synthetic inputs like fertilisers and pesticides, all farming had been organic farming. In India particularly, the need to become self-sufficient in food production in the years after Independence...
TN budget: Debate throws up mixed reactions
The Tamil Nadu budget-2023-24 presented by Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiaga Rajan on March 20, 2023 has evoked mixed reactions in the State.In a panel discussion on the budget, anchored by G. Ananthakrishnan, a senior journalist, on behalf of inmathi.com, Prof. R. Gandhi, former deputy...
Tamil Nadu Budget 2023-24: A bit here, a bit there!
The third successive budget speech of Dr. Palanivel Thyagarajan, finance minister of Tamil Nadu, marks a distinct change in its tone and tenor. His first budget speech, preceded by his release of the important White Paper on the Finances of Tamil Nadu, had made sharp criticism of the Union...
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