A 'whale' of a problem on Tamil Nadu's coast, 45 mammals die.

The article reports that 81 short finned pilot whales were beached near a village in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu, India. Topics discussed include efforts made to return them back to the sea via boats; whales that died and swam into the sea; rescue effort led by district collector M. Ravikumar; use of fishing boats for pulling them to the deeper part of the sea; and coastal pollution by industrial effluents as reason for whales deaths.