An ode to the hills: Sky Islands, a digital platform featuring stories from the Western Ghats, set to be launched

An ode to the hills: Sky Islands, a digital platform featuring stories from the Western Ghats, set to be launched

The Kodaikanal hills | Photo Credit: THANGARATHINAM N When Rajni George came back to her hometown of Kodaikanal after spending several years in Delhi and abroad, she was dismayed to see how much the hills had changed. “It really hit home how bad things were in our hill stations,” she says. “The older generation had […]

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Learn about the Nilgiris, native bees at Bengaluru’s exhibitions

Learn about the Nilgiris, native bees at Bengaluru’s exhibitions

St Stephen’s Church | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement This weekend, two exhibitions will highlight the Nilgiris’ history, and the ecology of the biosphere, shola grasslands, bees, and most importantly, the communities who have lived there through the centuries. The primary exhibition curated by Jenny Pinto, Remembering and Reimagining, was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary […]

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Organic farming is catching on in the Nilgiris

Organic farming is catching on in the Nilgiris

Organic farming is catching on in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris | Video Credit: M SATHYAMOORTHY Organic farming is catching on in India, thanks to a growing preference for healthier, sustainable food choices Sikkim is India’s first and only State to attain 100% organic farming status. Now, the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu is aiming to become the […]

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Camera traps being fitted around area where child was killed in leopard attack

Camera traps being fitted around area where child was killed in leopard attack

Camera traps are being fixed around the tea estate in Mynala near Doddabetta in the Udhagai North Forest Range to keep tabs on the leopard that is suspected to have killed a four-year-old girl on Wednesday. The leopard is believed to have killed K. Saridha, the daughter of tea estate workers, when she ventured out […]

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Special teams formed to nab persons behind bomb hoax in Nilgiris

Special teams formed to nab persons behind bomb hoax in Nilgiris

Two special teams have been formed by the Nilgiris district police to investigate and nab the person or people behind a hoax bomb threat that was sent to the District Collector’s office on July 26 night. According to officials, the Collector’s office had received a message warning of a series of bomb blasts in the […]

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