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 ...

BENGALURU: Alarmed by the drilling of a borewell next to a public one that catered to hundreds of people in Ambedkar Nagar in Whitefield, residents united to put an end to the drilling process. The ...

Nallurahalli residents allege digging going on without permit, wraps up when officials arrive, resumes when they leave Digging of borewells illegally is rampant in and around Whitefield in ...

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 ...