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…
COIMBATORE: A male elephant was found dead near a transformer close to the Thadagam reserve forest boundary in Coimbatore district on Tuesday afternoon.Acting on information, forest personnel rushed to a parcel of land owned by Arul Antony in the 24 Veerapandi village limits in Coimbatore North taluk and found the decomposed carcass of a tusker…
Coimbatore: Two men claiming to be businessmen from Gujarat have reportedly made away with over 3kg gold and about 50kg of silver, which they sourced from more than five local jewellery merchants on Big Bazaar Street in Coimbatore.The incident came to light on Monday, when one of the local merchants visited the duo’s shop to…
COIMBATORE: A special court in Coimbatore on Tuesday sentenced former Pollachi forest range officer Sivakumar to 15 years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh for kidnap, illegal confinement and robbery.The court acquitted three accomplices of Sivakumar,40, due to insufficient evidence.The case dates to Oct 28, 2009. Gandhi, a Chennai-based real estate…
The school bus came in contact with some low-hanging cables, causing an electric pole to tilt and the cables to fall across the road. Krishnagiri: A major mishap was averted, after a private school bus carrying more than 20 children brushed against some dangerously low-hanging power cables in J Chettipalli village, near Denkanikottai in Krishnagiri…