Thiruvananthapuram: There is one business thriving in this all-consuming heat – drilling borewells. If the number of autorickshaws bearing the contact details of borewell contractors is any indication ...

Shanmugan lifts his veshti and gingerly places his foot on the ground, only to withdraw it and step in a different direction. “It’s stronger over here,” he says more confidently, guided by a chain ...

This Diwali, the people of Tamil Nadu were glued in great anxiety to their televisions, following the rescue of two-year-old Sujith Wilson from an abandoned borewell near his house in Tiruchirapalli ...

A consultative meeting with borewell rig owners and the line departments was organised here at the Collectorate on Wednesday. The meeting sought to orient stakeholders on the Tamil Nadu ...

Trichy: Locating and converting defunct borewells scientifically into groundwater recharging structure will help eliminate the threat posed by abandoned borewells, it is being pointed ou in the ...

In what appears to be one of the longest rescue operations in Rajasthan, NDRF and SDRF teams are racing against time to rescue 3-year-old Chetna from a 150-foot deep borewell in Kotputli-Behror ...