Chennai:  Hundreds of mechanized boats in Nagapattinam and Karaikal districts will not put out to sea from today for one and half months as the annual 45 day ban on fishing these coastal areas comes into force from today.  The Governments of Tamil Nadu and Pondy had imposed the ban under provisions of the Deep sea Fishing Regulation Act, 2001. 

New Delhi: Union Cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth on Wednesday said that Tsunami looks unlikely and there is no need to panic.  Talking to reporters Seth said, “India is fully prepared to tackle Tsunami”.  Seth said that that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has issued instructions and wanted all precautionary measures to be taken.

The Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre here has issued a tsunami warning for three islands off the Andaman and Nicobar coast and a tsunami alert for Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu following a major earthquake off Sumatra in Indonesia.

Puducherry, Mar 20 (PTI) The home sparrow population in the Union Territory of Puducherry is on the verge of extinction. An official source told PTI here today that this "agonizing trend has emerged due to unbridled urbanisation, lack of vegetation covers and other environmental disturbances". The source said that the cyclone Thane had had

CHENNAI: Here's some not-so-good news for tender coconut lovers, this summer. Your favorite 'natural' cool drink is going to cost you dearly, with tender coconut vendors in Chennai, hiking the prices to `30 and more. And if you're looking for someone to blame, it'll have to be Mother Nature.

Nagapattinam:  As many as 281 olive ridleys, hatched in the artificial hatchery run by Forest Department at Kodiakarai, were let into the sea.  Kodiakarai and Vedaranyam areas in Nagapattinam coast attract a large number of olive ridleys (sea turtle) every year during the nesting season, which begins in December and continues till March.

Puducherry:  Fishermen in the union territory today said they would stage a demonstration before the Fisheries Department office on February 13 to protest the 'delay' in giving relief to those affected by the December 30 cyclone Thane.

THANJAVUR: The Cauvery delta region of Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts will witness record harvest of Samba and Thaladi crops, assured agriculture department officials in the region. More than one lakh tonne of paddy has been procured in Thanjavur and it would reach 1.2 lakh tonne, said a TNCSC officials. 

Puducherry, Feb 3 (PTI) The Puducherry Administration has called upon the industrial enterprises in the Union Territory to develop a specific action plan under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that ensures a shift from an "ad hoc approach of making mere contributions or sanction of donations"