Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore district police launched a crackdown on history-sheeters on Saturday morning and rounded up 17 people for interrogation. Subsequent interrogations revealed that these individuals were involved in various criminal cases, several of which are currently pending trial.Based on their criminal profiles and active cases, six individuals were formally arrested and placed under judicial…

ERODE: Tamil Nadu is seeing a “golden era” under the leadership of chief minister C Joseph Vijay as the govt is working on the lines of a five-year plan with detailed reviews and sector-specific meetings, revenue minister K A Sengottaiyan claimed on Saturday.Speaking to reporters after launching welfare projects worth Rs 12.95 crore at Gobichettipalayam…

COIMBATORE: Kovai Babu Selvakumar, a DMK councillor in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, resigned from the party on Saturday, alleging pressure to pay “party fund” for civic work.Selvakumar, councillor of ward 22 and DMK Coimbatore North district organiser for the NRI wing, submitted his resignation to the district secretary Senthamil Selvan stating that he was…

Coimbatore: Two individuals including a former police constable were arrested on Friday, for cheating over 500 job aspirants of ₹7 crore by promising them overseas employment.Race Course police identified the arrested as C Devasirvatham, 61, a dismissed police constable from Avarampalayam, and Krishnan, 60, of Kuniyamuthur. Devasirvatham had been dismissed from service in 2003 for…

COIMBATORE: Tamil Nadu MSME Minister P Madan Raja on Friday said the department is conducting district-wise reviews across the state, asserting that chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s target of achieving a $1.5 trillion economy by 2036 is possible only if the MSME sector is taken to the next level.The minister chaired a meeting at the…

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…