The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the protesting Tamil Nadu farmers to file an intervention application in the farmer's suicide cases.

The apex court earlier April 13 issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu Government on the issue of farmer suicide and terming it as a humanitarian crisis and is painful to hear that farmers are committing suicide and the state government is remaining silent on the issue.

Farmers from Tamil Nadu have been on protest in the national capital for over a month demanding drought relief from the Centre.

The petitioners had earlier approached the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court, where the court had demanded an affidavit from the government on the steps taken by them to prevent farmer suicides.

The court, however, refused to issue a notice toThis story was originally published on Dec. 3, 2015.

Calgary was incorporated as a town in 1884, but it was known by many names before that.

Many of the indigenous names for Calgary refer to where the Elbow River turns abruptly north into the Bow River, making an "elbow-like" curve.

The Elbow River gets its name from the distinctive "crook" as it flows towards the Bow River, which gets its name from the reeds that grew along its banks. They were used by local First Nations to make bows. (Google Maps)

Moh-kíns-tsis

The Blackfoot word for "elbow." Another name, Moh-kíns-tsis-aká-piyoyis, meaning "elbow many houses" was also used in 1875.

The chiefs of the Blackfoot Confederacy, as pictured in 1885. The Alberta government says the term "Blackfoot" actually refers to three tribes — the Blackfoot