COIMBATORE: Consumer Voice, a Coimbatore-based consumer organisation, has submitted a petition to the Tamil Nadu govt seeking directions to make it mandatory for hotels, restaurants, bakeries and meat shops in the state to prominently display price lists for all items sold.In the petition addressed to the labour welfare department secretary, Consumer Voice secretary N Logu…
Namakkal: A former panchayat vice president died after a tractor collided with his two-wheeler at Pallakuzhi village in Tiruchengode taluk, Namakkal district, on Monday evening. His companion survived with severe injuries.The deceased has been identified as K Murugan, 40, while his companion was identified as S Srikanth, 24; both from Pallakuzhi village. Police said the…
Police said the house owner had illegally stored some firecrackers at the residence Erode: A newlywed suffered 50% burns after illegally stored firecrackers exploded inside his family’s house on Nasiyanur GH Road in Erode district on Monday. The front portion of the house was also destroyed in the fire.The victim has been identified as K…
Coimbatore: A burglar who broke open into a house and stole items worth ₹3.3 lakh near RS Puram on August 31, was arrested on Monday. Police also recovered the stolen items.RS Puram police identified the arrested as K Gunaseelan, 54, of Coimbatore. Police said he had burgled the residence of V R Suriyanarayanan, 76, a…
COIMBATORE: Puthiya Tamilagam president Dr K Krishnasamy on Monday criticised chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s reply in the Tamil Nadu assembly, alleging that it lacked legislative decorum and resembled a “cinema style” speech. He said the chief minister’s manner of speaking in the assembly was not in line with tradition.Speaking to reporters at his residence…
The protest was held before the Bharathiar statue on the campus. COIMBATORE: Temporary staffers at Bharathiar University staged a protest and sit-in on the campus, accusing the university administration of illegally deducting money from their wages in the name of Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) labour contribution and attempting to recover an ESIC penalty by passing…
COIMBATORE: The Sulur police in Coimbatore district launched a murder investigation following the discovery of an unidentified man’s body in a dilapidated shed at Nandini Nagar in Pappampatti on Monday.The deceased, estimated to be aged between 35 and 40 years, was found naked with severe head injuries inside an unused hollow-block shed located in a…
The injured elephant was first spotted on Sept 2. COIMBATORE: A female wild elephant, found with an iron wire snare caught on its front left leg, was on Sunday tranquillised, treated and released back into the Sirumugai forest.The injured elephant was first spotted on Sept 2 during a patrol in the Uliyur beat near Pethikuttai…
The vehicle was negotiating the third hairpin bend when its brakes reportedly failed and the driver lost contro Coimbatore: As many as 22 temple volunteers from Tirunelveli district escaped with minor injuries after a tourist bus they were travelling in overturned at a hairpin bend near Palamalai Aranganathar Swamy Temple in Periyanaickenpalayam on Sunday.The group,…
This e-mail originated from outside of Times Of India And TimesGroup. Exercise caution before you click on any link or open attachments.Revenue officials strike halts government work in SalemSalem: Revenue officials in Salem district started a sit-in protest and boycotted work on Wednesday demanding the fulfilment of their nine-point demands.The Federation of Revenue Department Unions…