The train carrying 120 cars reached Pollachi Junction at 5.45pm on Monday. COIMBATORE: Pollachi Junction under the Palakkad Railway Division received its first dedicated automobile freight service on Monday. A new modified goods (NMG/MMG) rake carrying 120 Maruti Suzuki cars from Haryana’s Manesar plant arrived at the railway station on Monday evening.Railway sources said the…
COIMBATORE: A female wild elephant calf, which was found sick inside the Mettupalayam forest range in Coimbatore district, died on Monday evening despite receiving medical treatment. Postmortem revealed that a palmyra seed was stuck in its throat.According to forest officials, during a routine afternoon patrol on Monday, forest department staffers spotted a female elephant calf…
The gutka was found abandoned near the lavatory of a general coach Salem: Railway police seized 11kg of gutka found abandoned in a train compartment at the Salem railway junction on Tuesday.The seizure was made when railway police force (RPF) sub-division’s narcotics prevention wing conducted a routine inspection at 6:55am on train no. 12626 Kerala…
COIMBATORE: Five people have been arrested on charges of conducting the marriage of a minor girl near Pollachi in Coimbatore district.According to police, the 17-year-old girl had been in a relationship with a 27-year-old man, who is her relative, for more than four years. When their parents found out about their relationship, they conducted their…
Protesters said private services will suffer irreparable losses with the scheme being extended to long-distance govt buses Salem: Private bus employees staged a strike in Salem city on Tuesday opposing the state govt’s decision to extend the free travel scheme for women to express, LSS, and deluxe govt buses. The announcement was made by chief…
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has proposed approximately 10 key development projects to utilise the Rs 3,500 crore grant which it is eligible to receive under the special infrastructure component recommended by the 16th Central Finance Commission.Corporation commissioner Katta Ravi Teja said the latest major proposal of a Rs 824cr underground drainage (UGD) project…
COIMBATORE: The Southern India Engineering Manufacturers’ Association (SIEMA) has set a target for its member companies to collectively reach a turnover of US$5 billion (about Rs 50,000 crore) over the next five years, positioning Coimbatore’s pump cluster to capture a larger share of the global pump market estimated at around US$95 billion.The announcement was made…
COIMBATORE: The Kuniyamuthur police in the city on Sunday arrested a couple on charges peddling ganja and painkiller tablets. The arrested have been identified as S Fathima Sahana, 20 and her husband S Salman Khan, 26, of Kuniyamuthur.According to a police officer, a special police team tailed the two suspects named Manikandan and Sakthivel who…
NAMAKKAL: Two men died and three others suffered injuries after the car they were travelling in rammed a container truck parked on the roadside near Bommaikuttaimedu in Namakkal district in the early hours of Monday.The deceased have been identified as S Karthik, 34, a civil engineer working in Bengaluru, and his friend, V Rohithson, 26,…
The inscription was unearthed when villagers cleared the bushes around the temple KRISHNAGIRI: Four Jewish merchant guilds had come together to finance construction of a hall at the Thanthondreeswarar temple (Lord Shiva temple) at Anandur near Pochampally in Krishnagiri district, say historians citing a 13th century Tamil stone inscription discovered from the premises recently.The inscription…