Coimbatore: Shantakumar, a flowerseller in Coimbatore, has made it his mission to offer a dignified funeral to those who no one cares for. Like in most cities, in Coimbatore too, the mortuary at the general hospital was becoming a store house for many unclaimed bodies, until one day, Shantakumar landed on their doorstep. Said Shantakumar, "One day, when we went to the government hospital, we felt a bad smell emanating...
08:59 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Coimbatore: A relative of Sasikala, estranged aide of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister j Jayalalithaa, was arrested in Coimbatore on Friday on charges of abduction for ransom, extortion and criminal conspiracy. According to the police, Ravanan's arrest followed a complaint by one Ravikumar, a contractor at Sirumugai, alleging that he was abducted by him on October 9 last and Rs 10 lakh was sought as ransom for his release and to...
08:26 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Coimbatore: After a gap of five days, buses, including those of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC), started plying to neighbouring Kerala from and via Coimbatore on Saturday, much to the relief of holiday passengers. Bus services were cancelled to Kerala from Coimbatore on December 19, following incidents of stone pelting in the neighbouring state on buses from Tamil Nadu over the Mullaperiyar dam dispute between the two states....
10:03 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Chennai: Commuters in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu set to face the brunt of another strike as autorickshaws will be off the roads on Friday as a mark of protest, to condemn the Kerala government's stand on the Mullaperiyar Dam issue. Kerala has been insisting on a new dam to replace the 116-year old Mullaperiyar dam over safety concerns, a position which Tamil Nadu, under whose control the reservoir comes, refuses...
10:36 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Coimbatore: Days after the notorious forest brigand Veerappan was shot dead by the Special Task Force in October 2004, a senior IAS officer in Tamil Nadu had reportedly expressed fears about the likelihood of a successor emerging, according to partial extracts of a US Cable released by WikiLeaks. The terrain is ideally suited for a Veerappan Junior, the then State Public Secretary Pitchandi was quoted as having told US Consul...
09:50 AM, Sep 16, 2011
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There is an unfairness to news we must recognize. A murder in Coimbatore, no matter how dramatic, loses in intensity to a bomb blast in ...
12:47 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Coimbatore: Two organisations in nearby Tirupur are set to field a combined more than 3,000 candidates in two constituencies in the region in the forthcoming April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, as a mark of protest against the closure of the more than 700 dyeing and bleaching units in the region. The newly formed Tirupur Industrial Protection Committee has decided to field 1,000 candidates in Tirupur North constituency, to draw...
04:12 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Coimbatore: In Coimbatore, police shot dead a kidnapper of two children when he tried to escape from police custody earlier on Tuesday morning. Mohanraj had allegedly kidnapped seven-year-old Rithik and his 10-year-old sister two weeks ago and later threw them into the river in the fear of getting caught. He later confessed to the crime and was in police custody. But that encounter made it to the state assembly with...
09:29 PM, Nov 09, 2010
Coimbatore: A key accused in the kidnap and murder of two school children in Coimbatore recently was shot dead in an alleged encounter on the city outskirts on Tuesday morning. Police said Mohanraj, the accused, was being taken to nearby Pollachi for interrogation in a van when he suddenly snatched a revolver of an escort policeman and fired one round at him. However, another escort opened fired killing Mohanraj on...
12:24 PM, Nov 09, 2010
The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of 3 AIADMK workers in the Dharmapuri bus burning case in which 3 Coimbatore University students were burnt alive on 2nd February 2000. ...
12:28 PM, Aug 30, 2010
Kollam: Amid speculations that the arrest of Abdul Nasser Madani is imminent, prohibitory orders were clamped in and around the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader at Anwarssery near Kollam on Saturday. Karnataka Police team has been camping in Kerala for the last four days, awaiting the state police's nod to arrest Madani whose anticipatory bail plea has been rejected by the Karnataka High Court. He has now...
01:55 PM, Aug 14, 2010
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has also demanded that Tamil speakers be given priority in government jobs. ...
08:50 AM, Jun 28, 2010
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She's bare in white. Unadorned save for Red Rooster Performance radium-taped on all four corners. In normal course she wouldn't draw a first glance, forget ...
04:46 PM, Jun 23, 2010
A sessions court in Bangalore will take up the anticipatory bail plea of the PDP leader on Tuesday. ...
09:31 AM, Jun 22, 2010
The stigma of terror never seems to leave the Madani family. ...
09:44 PM, Dec 17, 2009
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