COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city police on Tuesday evening arrested a 43-year-old school van driver on charges of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl.The girl, who lives with her grandparents, studies in a private school here. Her mother works in Bengaluru after the death of her husband. The woman recently came here and took her daughter to…
KRISHNAGIRI: Three teenage boys in Krishnagiri allegedly blackmailed a 14-year-old schoolgirl with her morphed photos, coercing her to send to them her real nude photos and videos. On receiving her real nude videos, the boys — all school dropouts aged between 14 and 16 — blackmailed the girl’s father demanding Rs 10 lakh lest they…
Coimbatore: Coimbatore and Tirupur together account for nearly 55% of India’s knitwear exports, textile commissioner Vrunda Manohar Desai said at a meeting with textile associations and industry stakeholders in the city on Thursday.The meeting was attended by Tamil Nadu textiles commissioner R Lalitha and representatives from textile associations across Coimbatore and Tirupur, who raised concerns…
Coimbatore: The city and rural police have formed anti-narcotics task forces – specialized units dedicated to drug eradication – on the orders of chief minister C Joseph Vijay.Vijay had ordered creation of 65 anti-narcotics task forces across the state to curb drug peddling and usage. Based on this directive, the city police have formed two…
Coimbatore: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) executive committee chief coordinator and minister K A Sengottaiyan hit out at AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, stating that the internal turmoil and decline of the party were direct consequences of its leaders lacking concern for the cadre and the public.Speaking to reporters at the Coimbatore airport on Thursday,…
Namakkal: A 19-year-old woman guest worker escaped with leg fractures after her two coworkers attempted to rape and murder her by pushing her towards the railway track as a train was fast approaching near Rasipuram in the early hours of Wednesday.The woman and the two accused were from Bihar. They were working in a private…
Coimbatore: Gone are the days when Tamil Nadu solely depended on manual readings to record water level in its reservoirs to take flood management steps, release water for irrigation and plan long-term water conservation strategies.The state has today strengthened its reservoir monitoring and dam safety infrastructure with the deployment of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)-based…
Coimbatore: An activist has urged the city corporation to reclaim and develop an encroached open space reservation (OSR) land parcel on Sri Ramakrishna Layout in ward 22. The demand follows a Madras high court ruling on April 16, dismissing all pleas filed by the layout developer.According to RTI activist S P Thiyagarajan, the Department of…
COIMBATORE: Textile industry associations have welcomed the recommendation of the office of the textile commissioner to the Union ministry of textiles that the 11% duty on cotton imports be removed from April to September every year for the next five years.Associations said the move would create a level playing field and help address cotton shortage…
COIMBATORE: A bus conductor was crushed to death under the wheels of a private minibus while he was sleeping on the ground in front of the vehicle at Tirupur bus stand in the early hours of Thursday.The deceased has been identified as Surya, 23, a temporary bus conductor with the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation….