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Pollachi V Jayaraman speaking at a consultative meeting of the AIADMK Coimbatore suburban south district executives held at Mannur near Pollachi on Thursday evening. COIMBATORE: AIADMK leader and former deputy speaker of the Tamil Nadu assembly Pollachi V Jayaraman has said the TVK govt cannot back out of its electoral promises by citing the state’s…

The accident happenednear the Sendrayampatti bus stop on Friday morning KRISHNAGIRI: A college student died after a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus rammed his two-wheeler in Krishnagiri on Friday.The deceased has been identified as Madesh, 18, of N Thattakkal village near Pochampalli in Krishnagiri. He was a first-year degree student at a private college….

COIMBATORE: The Kavundampalayam police in the city have arrested a guest worker on charges of committing an unnatural act on a goat and assaulting and threatening the animal’s owner when confronted.The arrested man has been identified as P Gobindo Das, 35, of Pethajapara near Sandeshkhali in West Bengal. He was residing at Kavundampalayam and engaged…

Coimbatore: Sleuths from the directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) on Thursday arrested a special sub-inspector attached to the Kattoor police station for accepting a bribe of ₹70,000.The arrested has been identified as Boopathi. He was arrested while receiving the bribe near the Ukkadam bus stand on Thursday evening.According to DVAC officials, the complainant, Rujaina…

ClearedErode: CPI MP K Subbarayan has said incidents of crime have increased in Tamil Nadu and that the govt should take immediate steps to bring down the crime rate.“Failure to bring down crime rate would be dangerous for the state,’’ Subbarayan told reporters in Erode on Thursday. “TVK had said in their election manifesto that…

Authorities opened the sluice gates of both the Krishnagiri Reservoir Project (KRP) dam and the nearby Barur big lake to facilitate irrigation Krishnagiri: Agricultural activities in Krishnagiri district received a major boost on Thursday as authorities opened the sluice gates of both the Krishnagiri Reservoir Project (KRP) dam and the nearby Barur big lake to…

DHARMAPURI: A 19-year-old youth and his 16-year-old girlfriend died by suicide on a railway track near Morappur in Dharmapuri district in the early hours of Thursday. The deceased have been identified as Kansiram Rana and his girlfriend Amudha Priya. Both were residents of Ettipatti village near Harur in Dharmapuri district.Passersby noticed the severed bodies on…

Coimbatore: A stray dog that had recently bitten two people in Podanur was found dead on Thursday morning. The carcass was found in MGR Nagar opposite the Podanur police station in ward 95.The sudden death of the dog has triggered fear among residents, who said stray dog attacks have become frequent in several parts of…

COIMBATORE: An eight-year-old female elephant was found dead in the Manambolly range of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) near Valparai on Wednesday night.The carcass was found by forest field staffers during a routine patrol near Murugan Estate. A postmortem was performed on the carcass on Thursday by ATR veterinary assistant surgeon Dr T Meiyarasan in…

ERODE: A special task force comprising Erode district administrative officials on Thursday sealed 21 unauthorized resorts in the buffer zones of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve on Thursday.The task force comprising three teams sealed the resorts as directed by the Madras high court which acted on a public interest litigation filed by environmental activist R Karpagam…