NAMAKKAL: Traffic was disrupted for almost an hour near the Pallipalayam bus stop on the Salem–Chennai National Highway during an event organised by TVK minister C Vijayalakshmi to thank her voters in the Kumarapalayam assembly constituency in Namakkal district on Thursday. The programme began near the Pallipalayam bus stop from where the dairy development minister,…
COIMBATORE: Doctors in a private hospital here performed a rare pediatric heart transplant, giving seven-year-old boy a new lease of life.Royal Care Hospitals performed the highly complex heart transplant on a boy who was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a severe condition that weakens the heart muscle and affects its ability to pump blood. According…
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore district administration has planned a special grievance redressal meeting for students, who completed Class XII, to ensure that all eligible students join higher education without procedural hurdles. The meeting will be held by the second week of July. In the previous academic year, 11,058 govt school students in the district completed Class…
Pet owners are on the rise in Coimbatore district. While they care for their pets as a member of their family and ensure all possible comfort, they are discontent with the healthcare infrastructure available for pets in the district.Shortage of advanced veterinary infrastructure, specialized medical services and essential healthcare personnel is not only leaving pet…
COIMBATORE: Southern Railway has announced partial cancellation of Coimbatore – Chennai Central Intercity Express to facilitate engineering work at Arakkonam railway yard. No 12680 Coimbatore – Chennai Central Intercity Express, scheduled to leave Coimbatore Jn at 6.20am, will be short-terminated at Katpadi and partially cancelled between Katpadi and Chennai Central on June 25, 26, 27…
Coimbatore: The craze for electric cars and two-wheelers seems to be unstoppable in Coimbatore district. And the driving factors are nothing but the spiralling up fuel prices and the lower running costs for electric vehicles.If the official data is anything to go by, the district has recorded 82% surge in electric car registrations and 77%…
KRISHNAGIRI: Paracoat Products, a private company in Hosur’s SIPCOT industrial estate that manufactures rubber mats and other spare parts for vehicles, suffered a loss of around Rs 50 crore in a fire that broke out on Tuesday evening, Krishnagiri superintendent of police G S Anitha said on Wednesday.The blaze that broke out in the storage…
ERODE: Two women have been arrested on charges of stealing nearly 20 sovereigns of gold jewellery from a house at Rajajipuram in Erode.The burglary happened in the house of R Selvaraj, a contractor in an oil company. On June 13, Selvaraj went to Nasiyanur to visit his relatives and returned home the following day. He…
COIMBATORE: The Race Course police in the city have arrested a state youth wing secretary of the Hindu Makkal Katchi under a non-bailable warrant in connection with a 2021 attempt-to-murder case.The arrested man has been identified as Surya, alias K Suryaprasad, 29, of Muthusamy Colony in Selvapuram.The incident dates to May 27, 2021, when a…
Erode: A 65-year-old farmer died after being bitten by a snake while he was working in his agricultural field in J Chettipalli village in Erode district on Tuesday morning.Police said the Naga Naikkar was engaged in agricultural work around 6.45am when the snake bit him. “Hearing his cries, nearby villagers rushed to him and took…