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Either through the start-up India initiative or through encouraging global investors in this industry, Eucalyptus oil industry can be taken to towering heights to bring more revenue to the hills.

Chinese heat felt in salubrious Ooty

The government should give incentive and subsidies to encourage this trade.

22 Feb 2019 1:25 AM IST

Eucalyptus oil distillation underway inside a distillery in the hills. (Photo: DC)

Cottage industry that uses laborious technique

Good matured leaves of the eucalyptus trees are plucked by hand and collected. Even those leaves fallen on the ground...

22 Feb 2019 1:22 AM IST

Eucalyptus is a very ancient tree, as fossil data of the species the from South American continent dates back to 500 million years ago...

Withering eucalyptus may dent Nilgiri oil production, jobs

Decline of old, healthy tree species in Hills.

22 Feb 2019 1:20 AM IST

Frank James, grandson of former Collector Percy Macqueen, his son James and daughter-in-law Anne from UK came here on a maiden trip of personal discovery.

British Collector kin visit Ooty

Rare collection of notes, poems given to NDC.

20 Feb 2019 3:18 AM IST

If just 100 weapons were fired at a densely populated city, such as one of Chinas more highly inhabited areas, the blast would kill over 30 million people. (Photo Pixabay)

Blast in Ooty cordite factory: 1 injured

Sources said that work was on as usual on Monday in the cordite factory.

19 Feb 2019 5:37 AM IST

About 300 stalls belonging to 133 exhibitors were damaged in the fire.

Wild fire destroys 5 acres along Dodabetta slopes near Ooty

Forest fire watchers are monitoring the situation.

19 Feb 2019 1:23 AM IST

Those who drive through the Mudumalai woods, especially in the Kallhatti-Segur-Masinagudi sector, can see clusters of the flowers.

Flame of the forest' begins blooming in Mudumalai

Greens say that the flower has ecological significance in the woods in dry weather.

18 Feb 2019 1:41 AM IST

Dr D. Venugopal, the director of Nilgiris Documentation Centre (NDC).

Sullivan wanted pristine lake to serve Erode too

The dam leaked again and nearly breached in 1846. In 1852, however, a major breach left the lake completely dry'.

15 Feb 2019 5:55 AM IST

Sewage filled Kodappamund channel that traverses the Ooty town and drains into Ooty lake. (Photo: DC)

Lake's periphery should also be beautified: Greens

Mr. G.Janardhanan, president of Ooty Town Public Awareness Association, called for measures to beautify environs around...

15 Feb 2019 5:53 AM IST

Tourists enjoy boat ride at Ooty lake. (Photo: DC)

Ooty lake to take new, cleaner avatar

Water Resources Organization, state government wing, has been entrusted with this task, the pro-active collector noted.

15 Feb 2019 5:51 AM IST

Residents also complained that the movement of sloth bears in the Kotagiri suburban areas is posing a danger to school-going children and elderly people who stroll along the road there. (Representational Image)

Ooty: Sloth bear menace irks locals in Kotagiri suburbs

On Sunday night, a bear entered the residential premises of a person in the Kannerimukku road.

13 Feb 2019 3:33 AM IST

Camera traps are being fixed in the select points inside the woods at Segur jungles in MTR buffer zone. DC

Ooty: 400 camera traps to aid animals count in MTR

Likewise, camera traps will be placed in the Singara and Thengumarahada jungles of the buffer zone of the MTR.

12 Feb 2019 7:46 AM IST