CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu school education department has postponed half-yearly exams — that were scheduled to begin on Thursday — in all districts due to cyclone Michaung.“Half-yearly exams will be conducted from December 11 in the present schedule. The exams for December 7 and 8 will be conducted on December 14 and 20,” the school […]
Coimbatore: A day after dispatching 400 sanitary workers to Chennai, where cyclone Michaung brought moderate-to-heavy rainfal on Monday, for relief work, the city corporation on Tuesday extended technical support to the state capital to drain out stagnant rainwater from its streets.The civic body dispatched 12 state-of-the-art giant diesel motors with a power rating of 41 […]
Coimbatore: A physical education teacher of a government higher secondary school in the district was arrested on Tuesday for sexually harassing a Class IX girl student in April. The Perur all-woman police identified the arrested person as H Ananda Kumar, 38, of Kavundampalayam in the city. He has been working with the government higher secondary […]
Coimbatore: Eight people were arrested on Monday in connection with a clash between dalits and boyar community members at Appanaickenpattipudur here on Sunday.According to a police officer, trouble started with four people belonging to the boyar community harassing Siva, 23, a Scheduled Caste, when they ventured out around 6.45pm on Sunday to dump waste.“The four […]
Coimbatore: As many as 205 stolen mobile phones were handed over to the owners by district superintendent of police V Badrinarayanan on Tuesday.The mobile phones worth ₹38.73 lakh were stolen and recovered in the Coimbatore rural police jurisdictions.Police have handed over 915 stolen mobile phones worth ₹1.75 crore to the owners since January this year […]
Salem: The Salem district administration has set up a control room in the district collectorate to monitor ration shops and their distribution activities. The joint registrar (JR) of the Salem district cooperative department, M Ravikumar, said that they have set up the control room to monitor the public distribution system (PDS) during crises and the […]
Coimbatore: A tusker aged about nine years was found dead on the premises of the Central Training College of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Kurudampalayam in Periyanaickenpalayam forest range here on Sunday evening, while a female elephant aged around 25 years was found dead on a patta land at Thadagam north beat of […]
Coimbatore: Precautionary measures are being taken in Coimbatore in the wake of heavy rain forecast in several parts of the state in the coming days.As part of the short-term measures for immediate emergency response, officials from the district administration, fire and rescue services, city corporation and the public works department have been asked to keep […]
Coimbatore: A 23-year-old construction worker was arrested on Saturday near Madukkarai here for murdering his co-worker, with whose wife he was having an affair. The Madukkarai police identified the arrested as A Raja Singam from Nagampanthal in Ariyalur district. He was staying in a construction site at Bodipalayam near Madukkarai. Preliminary inquiry revealed that Raja […]
Coimbatore: The special court at Poonamallee dealing with the cases being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday granted custody of two suspects in the October 2022 car bomb blast case in the city to the NIA for six days for further investigation. The NIA had earlier moved the special court in Chennai, […]
