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Coimbatore
Coimbatore, also known as Kovai [koːʋəj], is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the second largest city and urban agglomeration in the state after Chennai and the sixteenth largest urban agglomeration in India. It is administered by the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation and is the administrative capital of Coimbatore district. It is one of the fastest growing tier-II cities in India and a major textile, industrial, commercial, educational, information technology, healthcare and manufacturing hub of Tamil Nadu. It is often referred to as the "Manchester of South India" due to its cotton production and textile industries. Coimbatore is also referred to as "Pump City" and it supplies two thirds of India's requirements of motors and pumps. The city is one of the largest exporters of jewellery, wet grinders, poultry and auto components with "Coimbatore Wet Grinder" and "Kovai Cora Cotton" recognized as Geographical Indications by the Government of India. The city is located on the banks of Noyyal river surrounded by the Western Ghats.
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Build dams across Anamalayar, Nallar, demand Tirupur farmers
The Times of India 15 Oct 2018
Tirupur. More than 3,000 farmers took out a procession in the city on Monday requesting authorities to construct dams across Anamalayar and Nallar rivers in Western Ghats ... “More than 4lakh acres of agricultural lands are depending on PAP (Parambikulam Aliyar Project) irrigation scheme in Coimbatore, Tirupur and Karur districts ... ....
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Meet Maya Mahajan who is transforming harmful forest weeds into eco-friendly furniture
Your Story 11 Oct 2018
scholar from Coimbatore ... It was during her research on forested lands of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Maya Mahajan, a PhD scholar from Coimbatore, came across the lantana weed. The weed had a harmful impact on the native vegetation in the Western Ghats, including the Siruvani region in Coimbatore ... of tribal women of Siruvani, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu....
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Sandalwood tree axed near Annur
The Hindu
10 Oct 2018
... the compound housing the office of the Deputy Director of Health Services at Race Course in the city, another tree was felled and stolen from a patta land at Pogalur, near Annur, in Coimbatore....
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NHAI plans new four-lane highway between Tiruchi and Karur
The Hindu
10 Oct 2018
The new highway is proposed between the two ... The alignment least affecting buildings and fertile lands is likely to be finalised. The new highway running a distance of 65 km will connect Coimbatore-Karur four-way lane highway in Karur and Tiruchi-Madurai Highway in Tiruchi ... A communication had been sent to the State government for facilitating land acquisition ... .......
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Informer in Veerappan op demands reward
Deccan Herald 10 Oct 2018
This was four months before Veerappan was shot dead by personnel of the Special Task Force (STF) in Dharmapuri district on October 18, 2004 in a carefully-executed operation. Fourteen years later, Shanmugapriya, now a mother of a 10-year-old girl, still waits for the reward for providing "crucial inputs" to fall on her lap ... Muthulakshmi had landed in Shanmugapriya's house in Vadavalli in Coimbatore through a series of STF manoeuvres ... ....
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Initiate action against officials helping land encroachment: Court
The Times of India 08 Oct 2018
Justice S M Subramaniam passed the order while dismissing a plea moved by V P Jayakumar, a resident of Coimbatore, seeking to grant patta for 36 cents of government land that he had encroached ... field officers were passing through encroachments on government lands and water bodies....
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These startups are keeping the military in top gear
The Times of India 07 Oct 2018
Five incubator partners — IIM-A Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT- Bombay, T-Hub Hyderabad, Forge Coimbatore, and IIT Madras’ Incubation Cell — were signed up to drive DISC ... Chhabra says a meeting with the right officials is no longer difficult to land....
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Farmers oppose high voltage line over farmlands
The Hindu
01 Oct 2018
The minute a tower is put up, it decimates the market value for the land, where a land costing ₹1 crore will have its value slashed to less than ₹ 10 lakh,” says Mr ... “We will sit on farmers’ lands in seven districts, including Coimbatore, Tirupur, Namakkal, Erode, Salem, Dharmapuri and Tiruvannamalai if the State Government does not invite us for talks,” Mr....
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Forest Dept. aims to distribute 96,000 saplings to farmers
The Hindu
01 Oct 2018
The Forest Department is aiming to distribute 96,000 saplings of trees to farmers under the Tree Cultivation on Private Land (TCPL), a component of Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Conservation and Greening Project, in Coimbatore Forest Division for the year 2018-19. District Forest Officer D ... Venkatesh ... TCPL also improves the supply of wood from private land for industrial and household consumption and thus reduces exploitation of forest wood....
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Land to lay pipelines for Pillur III scheme to be acquired soon
The Times of India 29 Sep 2018
Coimbatore. Land acquisition process for laying pipelines under the Pillur III water supply scheme is likely to commence soon. To lay pipelines for a distance of 30km from the Bhavani to Pannimadai on the outskirts of the city, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board has already identified a total of 162 acres land ... “Tenders have been floated for implementing the project, which would start soon after the land acquisition.”....
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Meet the man operating the only oil press in a village near Coimbatore
The Hindu
28 Sep 2018
Decades before edible oil became a mass-produced consumer product packaged in plastic bags, an entire village in Tamil Nadu depended on oil presses for a living. Some 30 years ago, almost every household at Kadampadi near Coimbatore had an oil press ... Today, there’s only one man in the village operating an oil press ... “I assisted my father as a little boy ... Ramasamy smiles ... Coimbatore, the land of textile mills, was their chief consumer ... .......
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Encroachments violate citizens’ rights, says High Court
The Hindu
24 Sep 2018
It is the duty of the local bodies to maintain government lands and properties, as these for public welfare schemes ... Lakshmanan seeking to quash an order from the additional district judge-cum-Revenue officer, Coimbatore, directed the Collector to initiate appropriate action to evict encroachments from poromboke lands, water bodies and water resources....
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Gated and trapped
The Times of India 21 Sep 2018
“Just like everyone around, we checked the DTCP plan approval and enquired about the promoter and land ... There is no concept called gated community as per the act,” said K Kathirmathiyon from Coimbatore Consumer Cause. No road or OSR land can be legally acquired by residents and it is always with the local body, he said ... in adjacent plots of land....
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