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Agri dept pushes for native cotton in Manchester of South
November 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
In a revival of interest in the desi variety, the agriculture department has stepped up its efforts to increase the area under cotton cultivation and promote indigenous varieties by providing native seeds, micro nutrient mixture…
November 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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167-year-old college to get its sheen back
September 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It’s not just a heritage structure but an institution that can boast of schooling Tamil Nadu’s first poet laureate — Namakkal Kavignar Ramalingam Pillai. Poor maintenance of the 167-year-old building had taken away some of…
September 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Numismatist traces history of the world through currency
August 16, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Did you know the first-ever paper currency to be made in the world was in 14th century China? Or that a country like Austria had wooden currency in 1920s? From currency made of gold, cloth…
August 16, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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50 yrs on, Rajesh Kumar still thrills his readers
July 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
On Wednesday morning at his home in Vadavalli, writer Rajesh Kumar gets a call from a fan. She is a 95-year-old woman who has lost her vision, but makes her granddaughter read his books to…
July 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Tunes of tradition make a comeback
June 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The booming sound, akin to an elephant trumpeting, from a kombu and the low-pitched growl of the urumi drum, once integral to rituals in temples of Tamil Nadu and old art forms, had been drowned…
June 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Retirement is no stop for this ‘bomma thatha’
June 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Classrooms,students and learning have been the life of M Sreenivasan, a 70-year-old retired government school headmaster, who has not yet stopped visiting schools to share his knowledge. Now he visits them not as a teacher,…
June 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Palmyra enthusiasts devise mechanical aids to climb tree
May 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
In the past few years, there has been widespread passion and volunteering around the palmyra tree. From planting it to marketing products made from it, a number of efforts have been made to preserve it….
May 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Power loom weavers hope to spin profit without middlemen
March 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Similar to co-operative agricultural bodies which market produce directly and ensure value addition, textile department officials are now looking to create ‘weaver companies’ for small power loom weavers. A definitive measure, which attempts to weed…
March 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Without museums, war veterans fade into history
November 14, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The stories of World War I that R B Vijayaradhakrishnan grew up listening to were more intriguing than anything he read in his history books. For his parents recounted in great detail the adventures of…
November 14, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Tamil Unicode font system has its troubles
October 16, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The Unicode font system widely used across several platforms to type Tamil script may be misrepresenting the language. The system by listing Sanskrit letters as Tamil letters, is putting out an incorrect interpretation, says 84-year-old…
October 16, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Disabled trio show indomitable spirit
September 27, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
In the very first year they took up the game, a group of wheelchair basketball players from Coimbatore has made a mark at the national championships. But for the lack of adequate training facilities, they…
September 27, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Invasive weed gives tribals job security
September 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Three years ago, M Kannammal, 32, of Seengapathi, a tribal settlement in Boluvampatti forest range, would search frantically for a job as a daily wage worker to make ends meet. On many days, she was…
September 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Forest response team helps rein in man-animal conflict
July 25, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Recently an elephant and its calf strayed into a settlement near Thadagam in Coimbatore. The calf happened to enter a house where a couple were sleeping. The woman managed to come outside and call out…
July 25, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Kongu epic now Tamil lesson for kids in Canada
July 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
In 1965, when social anthropology scholar Brenda Beck, first watched a performance of the Kongu folk epic ‘Annanmar Kadhai’ in Kangeyam, she realised it was a story that needed to be shared widely. Over the…
July 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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ICAR scientists turn banana stem to rope
July 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Scientists at the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (ICAR) in the city have developed a machine to make ropes from the outer sheath of banana trees. Scientists at the institute said they had designed the…
July 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Digital facelift for rare books in Kovai library
June 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Century-old editions of Tamil literary and grammatical texts at the library of Thavathiru Santhalinga Adigalar Arts, Science and Tamil College in Perur near Coimbatore would get a new lease of life soon. Authorities at the…
June 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Lessons on water sharing FROM CHOLA ERA
March 16, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
While conflicts between riparian states over water sharing have become a common occurrence today, history reminds us of a Kongu Chola king, who laid down rules for water management in the 13th century. R Jegadeesan,…
March 16, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Coimbatore’s amateur theatre now a forgotten legacy that awaits final act
February 13, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Though today Coimbatore is known as a hub for industry and education, it had another facet between the 1960s and 1980s — the city was a hub for amateur theatre troupes. After the amateur theatre…
February 13, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Professor from Tokyo digitises diaries of Coimbatore pioneer
February 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
A writer, educationist, teacher and a social worker — these aspects of ‘Kovai Kizhar’ C M Ramachandran are fairly known to people, but another facet which is still largely unfamiliar is that he was a…
February 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Thespian for whom the story lay in the detail
January 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
When K S Krishnan went to Coimbatore from his native Palakkad for the first time in 1952, the city inspired him to achieve something in life. Having just passed Class V, Krishnan, then 12, sold…
January 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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