COIMBATORE: Five of the nine people arrested for kidnapping, assaulting and attempting to extort Rs 2 lakh from a bakery owner have been detained under the Goondas Act.The detainees were identified as S Isakkimuthu, 24, B Venkat Prabhu, 25, N Dharmaraj, 32, M Sundaramahalingam, 28, and M Sudeep, 23.The victim, Velmurugan, 36, a native of…
Judge B Kanagaraj of the II additional district and sessions court found the duo guilty and pronounced the sentence on Wednesday. COIMBATORE: A court in Tirupur has sentenced two Bangladeshi nationals to two years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each for staying in India illegally without valid documents.The convicts…
DHARMAPURI: The bodies of a woman and her three children, with stones tied on the stomachs, were found in a farm well near the Combined Court in Thadangam in Dharmapuri district.The deceased have been identified as Amsha, 35, wife of M Saravanan of Thadangam, and her children Jeevitha, 16, Naveena,7, and Jaganathan,3.Saravanan is a construction…
Erode: The Erode district police seized 450 kg ration rice near Bhavanisagar on Wednesday morning. Based on a tip-off that rice meant for the public distribution system (PDS) was being smuggled, Bhavanisagar police and officers from the civil supplies CID conducted a raid in the old public works department (PWD) quarters area.They seized 450 kg…
COIMBATORE: Students should always protect the unity and integrity of the nation, said Vice-President of India CP Radhakrishnan on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters at the Coimbatore International Airport, Radhakrishnan said, “Today, India is in a position to dictate the terms and give a fitting reply to international forces, which is possible only through unity.”Radhakrishnan was…
DHARMAPURI: A 36-year-old man, who had been missing for three days, was found trampled to death by a wild elephant near the Kalappampadi forest area in Dharmapuri district on Wednesday.The deceased has been identified as Subramani of Athimarathur village near Pennagaram. Subramani, son of Chinnasamy and his wife Sivabakkiam, was suffering from mental illness. He…
Seats were filled through online counselling for 2,856 govt college seats and 3,051 govt quota seats in private affiliated colleges. COIMBATORE: Certificate verification for students provisionally admitted through the general counselling for undergraduate agriculture programmes at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) began on the university campus in Coimbatore on Wednesday.A total of 26,709 applications…
Dharmapuri: With water flow in the Cauvery river declining, precautionary measures have been taken in Hogenakkal to maintain uninterrupted supply for drinking water schemes. Sandbag barriers have been erected across the river to ensure sufficient water storage for pumping.Water release from Karnataka’s reservoirs into the Cauvery was stopped due to poor southwest monsoon rainfall in…
Erode: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay would take steps to regularize the jobs of contract sanitation workers in Tamil Nadu, handlooms and textiles minister Vijay Balaji said on Wednesday.The minister was speaking to reporters in Erode after inaugurating a medical camp for sanitation workers and their families. He said, “Immediate action will be taken if…
SALEM: A man murdered his wife in Salem on Wednesday as he suspected that she was involved in an extramarital relationship, according to police.The murdered woman has been identified as Jayanthi, 40, wife of V Mahendran of Washermen’s Colony. The couple, who ran a samosa shop in the Gugai locality, have two daughters and a…