The overwhelming sight of a flamboyance of flamingos at the Ousteri Lake could overshadow the quiet disappearance of the jacanas and a variety of ducks, but for the sharp-sighted birdwatchers the ...

Bringing cheer to bird lovers, the Union environment ministry has notified a buffer zone of 9.068sqkm around the boundary of Ousteri lake bird sanctuary in Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu as an ...

Puducherry: Ousteri lake, a proposed bird sanctuary, is considered to play an important role in recharging ground water in Puducherry, which largely depends on the source for drinking water supply.

Visitors to Ousteri lake are complaining about lack of lighting and access to sanitation in the area. Though boating in the lake ends by around 5 p.m., a large number of residents as well as weekend ...

A team from the Puducherry forest department also conducted raids in nearby areas and seized a few more bird carcasses and live avians kept for sale. PUDUCHERRYA: During the bird census at Ousteri ...

It's 5 a.m. and I'm driving down the ECR. I have 140-odd km to cover; my interviewees won't wait much beyond daybreak. They don't know I'm chasing them, and they don't care. At sun-up they'll flap ...

Chief Minister V Narayanasamy today said Union Environment Ministry has approved a Rs 40 crore drinking water proposal by Puducherry government by treating water from Ousteri lake near here and ...