NAMAKKAL: Congress party member N Sengamalai, 50, was allegedly assaulted by a man and his two sons on June 18 night for erecting a banner welcoming commercial tax and registration minister Lokesh Tamilselvan to the Dharmaraja temple at Thimmanaickenpatti in Namakkal district on June 14.Sengamalai, who is undergoing treatment at Salem Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical…
COIMBATORE: Admissions have begun for the 2026–27 academic year for the diploma in elementary teacher education at the Government Women Teacher Training Institute on the Raja Veethi here.Applicants must be Tamil Nadu residents who have passed Class XII, with a minimum of 50% for general category and 45% for other categories. The upper age limit…
COIMBATORE: Government Arts College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, will conduct an additional round of undergraduate counselling at 9am on Tuesday to fill 133 seats that remain vacant after the first counselling.The college has a total intake of 1,727 seats in its UG programmes. After the completion of the first counselling, 1,594 students have been admitted, leaving 133…
Students were made to carry chairs, benches and microphone stands NAMAKKAL: Students were allegedly subjected to hardships in Sowthapuram Government Higher Secondary School in Namakkal district when a local functionary of the ruling TVK organized a function to celebrate chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s birthday.According to reports, “Thalapathi” Surya, deputy secretary of Sowthapuram panchayat union,…
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…
Police seized 700kg of banned gutka products from a cargo van Namakkal: Police seized 700kg of banned tobacco products worth Rs 7 lakh near Pallipalayam in Namakkal district on Saturday and arrested three men for smuggling the gutka.The arrested have been identified as Manikandan, 35, Sathishkumar, 27, and Ranjith, 27, all from Dharmapuri district. They…
DHARMAPURI: A 19-year-old girl preparing for the NEET exam died by suicide at her home near Palacode in Dharmapuri district on Saturday night. The girl, R Roshini of Endapatti village, had completed Class 12 last year and was preparing for NEET at a private coaching centre in Namakkal. She returned home two months ago and…
KRISHNAGIRI: A 20-year-old youth who was preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for the past three years died by suicide at his residence in Hosur on the eve of the retest.The deceased was identified as C Vetriyanantham, 20. He was the younger son of Chinnasamy, a private factory worker residing at the…
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore corporation has approved the construction of a new multi-sports turf on the Kumarasamy lake bund at a cost of Rs 60 lakh.This will be the second turf at the Kumarasamy lake. It is meant for creating more recreational space for young people.The recent corporation council meeting approved awarding the contract to NMS…
As students approached the stage one by one to receive their degrees, TVK campaign song “Na thannanthani aalu” and TVK viral campaign BGM were played at a very high volume. COIMBATORE: Some songs from films starring Vijay and a few others associated with the ruling TVK’s election campaigns were played during the convocation ceremonies at…