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…
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…
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…
Coimbatore corporation’s renovated indoor stadium in RS Puram COIMBATORE: Residents of RS Puram have said the Coimbatore corporation’s renovated indoor stadium in RS Puram, which is yet to be opened for the public, is being used for anti-social activities by some people. They have urged the civic body to make the indoor stadium, which is…
DHARMAPURI: A woman and her two-year-old son were found dead near Pappireddipatti in Dharmapuri district on Thursday. Police suspect Sandiya Bai, 32, of Madhya Pradesh killed her son, Pravesh, and died by suicide over an issue with her husband, Bhavan Singh, 35. The couple, who hail from Anuppur district in Madhya Pradesh, stayed in a…
Coimbatore: Security protocols were swung into action after the Coimbatore combined court complex received a bomb threat email from an unidentified individual on Thursday.Race Course police were alerted after an email delivered around 10.25am warned of an explosion at the court complex. The bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) conducted thorough search operations with the…
The crackdown was part of a statewide operation, with DVAC sleuths conducting simultaneous raids at several RTOs across multiple districts in Tamil Nadu Coimbatore: The directorate of vigilance and anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials conducted a surprise raid at the Coimbatore central regional transport office (RTO) on Thursday, and seized unaccounted cash amounting to Rs 63,100.The crackdown…
The fire broke out after a cooking gas cylinder developed a leak Krishnagiri: A fire broke out in the kitchen of the Periyar Goundanur panchayat union primary school near Uthangarai in Krishnagiri district on Thursday. However, all students were moved to safety promptly and the fire put out.Police said the fire broke out after a…
Krishnagiri: Continuous rain in the catchment zones of the Thenpennai River in Karnataka has resulted in a notable increase in inflow into the Kelavarapalli dam near Hosur in Krishnagiri district.As per the water resources department’s official figures, the dam recorded an inflow of 1,381 cubic feet per second (cusecs) on Wednesday, and 1,038 cusecs on…
COIMBATORE: The Podanur Train Users Association on Thursday submitted a petition to the Salem divisional railway manager demanding an additional track between Coimbatore North and Mettupalayam railway stations. The association highlighted that the existing single track had limited the movement of train services from North Coimbatore station.The petition was submitted by association general secretary N…