Coimbatore: The Coimbatore district administration has planned a special grievance redressal meeting for students, who completed Class XII, to ensure that all eligible students join higher education without procedural hurdles. The meeting will be held by the second week of July. In the previous academic year, 11,058 govt school students in the district completed Class…
COIMBATORE: Southern Railway has announced partial cancellation of Coimbatore – Chennai Central Intercity Express to facilitate engineering work at Arakkonam railway yard. No 12680 Coimbatore – Chennai Central Intercity Express, scheduled to leave Coimbatore Jn at 6.20am, will be short-terminated at Katpadi and partially cancelled between Katpadi and Chennai Central on June 25, 26, 27…
ERODE: Two women have been arrested on charges of stealing nearly 20 sovereigns of gold jewellery from a house at Rajajipuram in Erode.The burglary happened in the house of R Selvaraj, a contractor in an oil company. On June 13, Selvaraj went to Nasiyanur to visit his relatives and returned home the following day. He…
COIMBATORE: A 39-year-old man was severely injured and hospitalised after being stabbed with a knife by a tea stall worker in Vadavalli here on Sunday.The victim, G Sakthivel, 39, works at a coconut shop owned by Manikandan on the Maruthamalai Road. Sakthivel also sells jamun fruits on a pushcart. He was stabbed by A Sudalaimani,…
COIMBATORE: A male elephant was found dead near a transformer close to the Thadagam reserve forest boundary in Coimbatore district on Tuesday afternoon.Acting on information, forest personnel rushed to a parcel of land owned by Arul Antony in the 24 Veerapandi village limits in Coimbatore North taluk and found the decomposed carcass of a tusker…
The university offers 14 undergraduate programmes and three diploma courses, while three BSc (agriculture) programmes are available through Annamalai University under the same admission process. COIMBATORE: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has deferred the release of its rank list for undergraduate admissions, which was scheduled to be published on Tuesday, citing delays linked to CBSE…
COIMBATORE: The suspension of meat waste dumping at the Vellalore dump yard, following directions from the city corporation commissioner, has triggered a fresh crisis in Coimbatore, with meat vendors alleging that waste collection has been completely disrupted for the past three days.Owners of meat stalls in the city claimed that the contractor engaged in collecting…
COIMBATORE: A special court in Coimbatore on Tuesday sentenced former Pollachi forest range officer Sivakumar to 15 years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh for kidnap, illegal confinement and robbery.The court acquitted three accomplices of Sivakumar,40, due to insufficient evidence.The case dates to Oct 28, 2009. Gandhi, a Chennai-based real estate…
KRISHNAGIRI: Panic gripped several neighbourhoods in Hosur after a stray rabid dog bit 12 people on Monday.“Eight of the injured were admitted to Hosur Government Hospital for treatment while the others received medical care and were discharged,” said a doctor in the hospital.The dog bit people in Mullai Nagar Housing Board quarters, the railway station…
COIMBATORE: A special court for Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (POA) Act cases here on Monday sentenced a man to double life imprisonment and a woman to a life term for brutally torturing and murdering her six-year-old son who they believed interfered with their illicit relationship.According to the prosecution, A Divya, 32, separated from…
