Coimbatore: The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (CODISSIA) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking urgent policy measures to ease steel shortages and price spikes that, it said, are straining MSME operations and threatening output in one of India’s largest engineering clusters.In its letter, the association said India’s annual steel requirement is about 160…
COIMBATORE: A private school teacher was arrested by the Coimbatore city police on Friday on charges of sending obscene videos and to his students.The arrested teacher has been identified as V Babu, 35, a native of Dindigul district. He is residing here and working as an English teacher at a private school located in Kalapatti….
COIMBATORE: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) has registered two separate cases against 10 individuals, including two sub-registrars (in-charge), following surprise raids conducted at the Thondamuthur and Gandhipuram sub-registrar offices here. The raids led to the seizure of unaccounted cash totalling Rs 2.34 lakh and incriminating slips detailing bribe collections.A DVAC team, led by…
COIMBATORE: A 58-year-old woman was robbed of 20 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 20,000 in cash at gun and knife points by two masked miscreants near Rasipuram in Namakkal district on Thursday night.According to police, Kalaiselvi, 58, a widow, who stays alone at her farmhouse in the Pattanam Amman Kovil Thottam area, visited her…
The STPs were set up at a cost of Rs 1 crore to Rs 4 crore, depending on the size. COIMBATORE: Currently, there are no signs of treated water being released into the Smart City lakes in Coimbatore, as most of the sewage treatment plants (STPs) around these lakes are non-functional. A recent visit by…
Coimbatore: A special court under the TNPID (Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors in Financial Establishments) Act in Coimbatore on Wednesday, sentenced two men to 10 years imprisonment in connection with an emu farm scam.The convicts were identified as Chandrasekaran, 48, and Somasundaram, 55, both from Namakkal. Police said the duo had been operating…
By V Ritheka SreeCOIMBATORE: Ward 26 councillor Chithra Velliangiri on Thursday urged the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation to expedite pending civic infrastructure projects.Speaking at the North Zone Council meeting, the councillor pointed out that several resolutions approved between 2025 and March 2026 remain unimplemented despite administrative sanctions and allocation of funds.Among the key issues highlighted…
DHARMAPURI: Two youths died and another suffered injuries when a motorcycle they were riding triple on rammed the median of the Harur-Salem road near Pappireddipatti in Dharmapuri district on Thursday evening.The deceased have been identified as Vignesh S, 23, and Madhankumar M, 19, of Elandakottapatti. Their friend, Sundaram S, 23, suffered injuries. “When they reached…
Coimbatore: Officials from the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) have intensified efforts to trace the accused behind a suspected elephant poaching incident. An elephant tusk was found abandoned in the Ayirangal forest beat near Sethumadai, within the Pollachi forest range, on June 2.Based on a tip-off from tribal residents, a team including a forester and a…
The protesters alleged that municipal officials were assigning contract work only to relatives of the chairman and the vice-chairman, while certain wards were intentionally ignored. DHARMAPURI: Nine DMK, AIADMK, PMK and independent councillors conducted a sit-in protest at Harur municipality office on Thursday over alleged corruption and administrative irregularities in the civic body.They alleged that…