COIMBATORE: A 40-year-old construction worker was beaten to death by another worker at a house construction site in Velandipalayam on the outskirts of Coimbatore on Friday night. The deceased has been identified as K Ravindran, 40, of Kovilmedu in Coimbatore. The suspect, A Mani, 50, of Omalur in Salem district, works and stays at the…
SALEM: An eight-year-old schoolgirl died after she was run over by a van near Ladies Seat in Yercaud on Friday morning.The deceased girl has been identified as Menaka, daughter of Krishnan of Valavanthi. She was a Class III student at Mundagapadi Government School. Police sources said she regularly travelled from her home in a private…
COIMBATORE: In a bid to maintain law and order and peace here, the Coimbatore city police commissioner has issued strict prohibitory orders in the city limits till July 3 under sections 41 and 41(A) of the Madras City Police Act, 1888.According to an official press release, no public meetings, demonstrations, processions, picketing, fasts or public…
The driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to veer off the road and flip onto its side Coimbatore: As many as 28 passengers were injured after a private bus en route to Coimbatore from Tirupur lost control and overturned near Neelambur on Friday morning.Police said the bus with 71 passengers on board was…
COIMBATORE: The Peelamedu police in Coimbatore city have arrested nine people on charges of kidnapping and assaulting a bakery owner over a dispute linked to arranging bail for a remand prisoner. The victim, Velmurugan, 36, is a native of Thiruchendur in Tuticorin district who resides in Cheran Maa Nagar and runs a bakery in the…
SALEM: A 20-year-old NEET aspirant died by suicide at her grandmother’s residence at Vellalapuram near Konganapuram in Salem district on Friday.The deceased has been identified as S Kobika, who passed Class XII with 440 marks in 2024. She was a student at Fort Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School.Kobika, daughter of V Sekar and S Bhuvaneswari…
Villagers submitted a petition to the district collector in Namakkal Namakkal: More than 200 residents of Nallaiyampatty village in Mohanur, submitted a petition to the district collector in Namakkal on Friday, demanding that permission be denied for a private poultry farm which is proposed to come up just 50 feet from the historic Thangavel Swamy…
COIMBATORE: Sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Friday caught a Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL) official red-handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 90,000 in Coimbatore.The arrested has been identified as M Kathirvel, who was working as an assistant executive engineer at the TNPDCL office in Chinnavedampatti…
KRISHNAGIRI: A schoolboy drowned while swimming in a farm well near Kelamangalam in Krishnagiri district on Wednesday evening. The deceased has been identified as M Prasad, 12, of Koottur village who was a Class VII student at a panchayat union middle school in Chettipalli. On Wednesday evening, Prasad was returning from school with his three…
KRISHNAGIRI: The additional district sessions court in Hosur on Thursday sentenced two men to life imprisonment for the murder of a temple guard during a theft. On March 24, 2009, a group entered the Dakshina Tirupati Temple in Gobasandiram village near Hosur with the intention of stealing money and valuables from the temple. “When the…
