NAMAKKAL: Minister for milk and dairy development C Vijayalakshmi on Thursday night conducted a surprise inspection of dyeing units at Kumarapalayam in Namakkal district and sealed two units operating illegally.Following public complaints about illegal dyeing units in and around Kumarapalayam, the minister, along with Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) officials and police, carried out…
The city police’s traffic unit commenced the crackdown on the modified exhaust pipes three months ago. COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city police’s traffic unit have seized a total of 332 modified exhaust pipes from motorcycles and cars, which were making huge noise pollution on city roads, in the last three months.The city police’s traffic unit commenced…
J Gowthami clocked 2.04 minutes to cross the finish line first and secured the gold medal COIMBATORE: J Gowthami, a policewoman with the Coimbatore city police, has clinched a gold medal in an 800-metre running event at the 65th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships, being held in Bhubaneswar from June 24 to June 28, and…
This presence of people agitated the leopard. COIMBATORE: A leopard got trapped in a house near Masinagudi in the Nilgiris district on Wednesday night after it entered the premises chasing a pet dog. The leopard and the dog remained in the one room house for five hours till forest officials from the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve…
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore corporation has intensified its dengue prevention drive and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on a building owner after mosquito breeding sources were detected during a field inspection in the East zone.Dengue-spreading Aedes mosquitoes breed in clean stagnant water found in uncovered drums, discarded tyres, coconut shells and others. Residents have repeatedly…
COIMBATORE: A three-year-old male elephant calf was translocated from the Wildlife Transit and Treatment Centre (WTTC) in Sirumugai, Coimbatore, to the Kozhikamuthi Elephant Camp in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) on Thursday for advanced care and long-term rehabilitation.Based on veterinary advice, the transfer began at 5am to avoid heat and direct sunlight and reduce stress…
NAMAKKAL: Traffic was disrupted for almost an hour near the Pallipalayam bus stop on the Salem–Chennai National Highway during an event organised by TVK minister C Vijayalakshmi to thank her voters in the Kumarapalayam assembly constituency in Namakkal district on Thursday. The programme began near the Pallipalayam bus stop from where the dairy development minister,…
COIMBATORE: The Race Course police in the city have arrested a state youth wing secretary of the Hindu Makkal Katchi under a non-bailable warrant in connection with a 2021 attempt-to-murder case.The arrested man has been identified as Surya, alias K Suryaprasad, 29, of Muthusamy Colony in Selvapuram.The incident dates to May 27, 2021, when a…
KRISHNAGIRI: Paracoat Products, a private company in Hosur’s SIPCOT industrial estate that manufactures rubber mats and other spare parts for vehicles, suffered a loss of around Rs 50 crore in a fire that broke out on Tuesday evening, Krishnagiri superintendent of police G S Anitha said on Wednesday.The blaze that broke out in the storage…
COIMBATORE: Doctors in a private hospital here performed a rare pediatric heart transplant, giving seven-year-old boy a new lease of life.Royal Care Hospitals performed the highly complex heart transplant on a boy who was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a severe condition that weakens the heart muscle and affects its ability to pump blood. According…
