Erode: A 66-year-old man died after his two-wheeler skidded on sludge formed in rain and hit a wire fence and stone on Erangattur-Bhavanisagar state highway near Bhavanisagar here on Monday night.The Bhavanisagar police identified the deceased as Sundaram, a resident of Erangattur Weavers’ Colony in their jurisdiction. According to a police officer, the accident occurred…
COIMBATORE: A police constable has been arrested in Coimbatore district on charges of deceiving a 29-year-old woman by hiding his marriage, maintaining a fraudulent relationship with her and forcing her to undergo abortions.Udhayakumar, 37, of Anamalai, who is serving as a constable in the Coimbatore district armed reserve police, entered into a relationship with the…
COIMBATORE: The Race Course police in Coimbatore city have registered a case against two men on charges of cheating a Kerala-based gold merchant of jewellery worth Rs 32 lakh.According to police, E Raju, 62, who runs a gold jewellery business in Thrissur in Kerala, came to Coimbatore in March 2025 to exchange old gold ornaments…
ERODE: The Gobichettipalayam police in Erode district on Wednesday arrested a 38-year-old woman on charges of murdering her husband. According to police, Amudha, 38, of Pichandampalayam stabbed her husband, S Thangaraj, 41, to death following a family dispute on Wednesday.Gobichettipalayam DSP Srinivasan said Thangaraj, who was a drunkard, used to quarrel with Amudha after consuming…
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city police have announced temporary traffic restrictions on the GD Naidu flyover on the Avinashi Road to facilitate essential infrastructure work. According to a press release, BSNL will undertake the installation of optical fibre cables on the flyover. Work is scheduled for five days from May 14 to May 18. Vehicle movement…
The enforcement teams seized 20-litre PET jars of packaged drinking water along with stickers and labels bearing the ISI mark from the premises. COIMBATORE: Officials of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) conducted enforcement raids at two packaged drinking water manufacturing units in Tirupur district on Wednesday for allegedly misusing the ISI mark without a…
COIMBATORE: Southern Railway has announced changes in train services to facilitate installation of girders for a new foot overbridge being constructed at Kuppam railway station in the Jolarpet– Bengaluru section.No. 16526 KSR Bengaluru – Kanyakumari Express, scheduled to leave KSR Bengaluru at 8.10pm, will be rescheduled to leave KSR Bengaluru at 10.40pm — late by…
COIMBATORE: Industry bodies in Coimbatore have urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to waive this year’s electricity tariff hike for MSMEs, saying rising power and property costs are hurting the sector and threatening its competitiveness.M Karthikeyan, president of the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (Codissia), said the district is home to more than 2.5 lakh…
TIRUPUR: Six people, including a police constable on duty, died in a road accident near the Kurukkathi check post on the Coimbatore-Trichy National Highway in the early hours of Wednesday. The deceased have been identified as Ravichandran, 36, a constable attached to the Vellakoil police station; Senthil, 48, a truck driver; Ram, 22, a sport…
TIRUPPUR: At least six people, including a police constable on duty, were killed in a road accident near the Kurukkathi check post on the Tiruppur-Karur district border in the early hours of Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Ravichandran, 36, a constable attached to the Vellakoil police station; Senthil, 48, the lorry driver; Ram, 22; Narasimhan,…