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Technological makeover

AT the click of the mouse, the traditional Kancheepuram silk weavers are now able to get into the world of new colour combinations and design options.

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Weavers at the Anna Co-operative Society.-

First stop on the silk route

Kancheepuram's silk industry is adapting to competition and changing customer preferences by modernising operations.

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The Shore Temple at Mamallapuram.-K. PICHUMANI

Ancient and marvellous

LIKE most ancient cities Kancheepuram is also located on the banks of a river, the Vegavati. The city, which was the capital of the Pallavas between t

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A model for development

Led by a proactive district administration, Kancheepuram grows into a showcase district of Tamil Nadu in terms of development.

ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR Photographs: S. Thanthoni

The Tiger Task Force report recommends: 'The habitat must be shared between the people and the tigers, so that both can coexist, as they must. The poverty of one, otherwise, will be the destruction of the other.'-MURALI KUMAR. K

Saving the tiger

The report submitted by the Tiger Task Force restarts the debate on strategies to save the animal and at the same time protect the interests of people

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The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, which is celebrating its centenary this year.-

Moving with the times

With an excellent track record, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University gears up to be globally competitive.

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The high social cost

The material cost of the consequences of child marriage is far exceeded by the more intangible costs relating to the quality of life, the suppression

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At the Coimbatore Institute of Technology.-

Growing with industry

The general industrial boom and the advances in the IT sector have enhanced the growth potential of the education sector in the city.

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On the campus of the Bharathiar University in Coimbatore.-PICTURES: K. ANANTHAN

Towards new frontiers

Building on the strong academic foundation laid by its predecessors, the entrepreneur generation of Coimbatore turns the industrial city into an advan

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Child BRIDES OF INDIA

Child marriage is widespread in India despite a law banning it, and the loser in the end is invariably the girl child given the socio-economic factors

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Krishnagiri's `distinction'

Child marriages are practically the norm in certain communities in about 750 villages in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district, and the brides, often divo

ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR in Krishnagiri Photographs: K. Bhagya Prakash

At the cramped entrance of a nursery school during the last academic year.-K.V. SRINIVASAN

A deadline for schools

The Tamil Nadu government extends the deadline it set for the closure of over 2,000 nursery and primary schools that have failed to conform to safety

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