In Malaysia the month of April is very important to indicate the celebration of Tamil New Year for many communities in the country. The first day of Chaitra Maasam on April 7th - Ugadi is celebrated by Malaysian Telugus which is noticeable with prayers and the enjoyment of different special delicacies, particularly the Yugaadi Pachchadi.

The Tamilians greet the Tamil New Year on Sunday. Puthandu or Tamil New Year that celebrated on April 13 or 14, is extensively celebrated in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in South India. The festival notices the first day of the Hindu calendar, greeting the month of Chittrai. Most of the families start the day with prayers in Hindu temples or home to welcoming the New Year, wearing new clothes and treating the favorite sweets.

Attired in traditional marriage wear and bejeweled in glitzy ornaments, Lord Srinivasa and goddess Sridevi and Bhoodevi obtainable a celestial picture for the several devotees. The elaborate arrangements made by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) for the celestial wedding, nearly a one lakh people crowd among the island grounds. The wedding of the Lord Srinivasa and goddess Sridevi and Bhoodevi is specially arranged for the peoples who cannot spend the money for organizing the marriage at Tirumala. Flat-screen monitors also arranged for devotees those who seated faraway from the stage.
The `purohits' chant mantras on the microphone and the ceremony were executed according to the Agamas. Famous Tamil singer Seergazhi Siva Chidambaram begins the evening's events, by exposé Tamil and Telugu symphony on Lord Srinivasa, also known traditionally as Lord Balaji. Through Tamil commentary to explain the service, the viewers had information of the reasons following each ritual. Security arrangements were also in place, maintaining in view the estimated huge crowd of people for the evening. More than one lakh people witnessed the celestial wedding of Lord Srinivasa in Chennai on Sunday.

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In Tamilnadu, numerous such rare varieties of herbs are still now available at Uthagamandalam, Kollimalai and many places. While people are not attentive of the importance and worth of these plants, they are allowable to perish unhonoured and unsung in our generation. It is enriching that the Botany Department of the Pachaiyappan College in Chennai has been energetically engaged in the endeavour to keep them from total extinction. They are in the progression of increasing an herbal farm. The Institution is as well listing out the information of herbs and the places where they grow up. They gather these plants with the assist of the Forest officials and tribal. Moreover, the students and the staff of the botany Department are also increasing Test Tube Herbs in the Cell growth Research Unit at the College. The College has currently hundred and twenty varieties of exceptional species of herbs.

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The tiger inhabitants in Tamil Nadu have increased whereas it had been dwindling in most places of the country. The tiger population between 62 and 80 in the Tamil Nadu Mudumalai Reserved Forest, while in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai and Topslip in Pollachi would differ among six and eight. While previous census report, the tiger count in the state was probably to be 70. Policy planning enhanced involvement and forest defense by the officials and public, environment improvement, constant monitoring and ecological attentiveness programmes had guide to the raise in the number of wild cats in the state. Further research programmes that were taken up in Tamil Nadu, which facilitate in the systematic supervising and perambulation by the forest department, also contributed to the enhance in population. Another significant factor was that in the previous censuses the animal count was arrived at by the amount of sightings of pugmarks, which was not a perfect method. Yet, in the most recent census a more systematic method of camera trapping was implement that assist in getting a more valid data. The census work began on February 2006 in Tamil Nadu. Recently tiger census was executed by Wild Animal Department officials and Tamil Nadu Forest by the assist of 150 university students at the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in Tirunelveli district. The whole Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Forest was let know as a sanctuary in 1976. Kalakad is also well-known for the endangered lion tailed monkeys in huge numbers. The number of tigers in India has plunge to approximately 1,411, almost half the earlier estimate, according to a government survey. As per the previous census conceded out in 2001 and 2002, there were 3,642 tigers.

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