CNN-IBN's Budget yatra is travelling across the country to states which are pillars of India's growth. CNN-IBN travels to Tirupur - the knitwear capital of India. From its peak in 2005 Tirupur has lost its sheen. From Rs 12,000 crore, it was expected to touch exports of over Rs 20,000 crore, but that never happened. ...
08:54 AM, Feb 11, 2013
Coimbatore: Ten teenage girls from Karnataka were rescued from agents, when they alighted at Tirupur Railway Station early on Monday and handed over to the police. Based on a tip-off from an NGO, police had kept a vigil at the railway station since last night. When the girls, aged around 14 to 16 years, alighted from Kurla Express from Bangalore, police enquired about their whereabouts and took two persons, accompanying...
03:56 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Chennai: Twenty-nine persons have so far tested positive for swine flu in Tamil Nadu but instances of the virus were not "endemic but sporadic," Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr VS Vijay said on Saturday. Those who have tested positive mainly hail from the districts of Chennai, Coimbatore and Tirupur, he told reporters in Chennai. Assuring people that there was no need to panic, he said instances of the virus...
03:49 PM, Apr 07, 2012
COIMBATORE/TIRUPUR: A 65-year-old farmer from Tirupur is being treated for swine flu (H1N1) in the isolation ward of the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH).Pommu Naiker of Nathakattupudur in Ward 19 of Tirupur Corporation was confirmed to be infected by the H1N1 virus at a private hospital in Coimbatore on Tuesday night. He was brought to the CMCH around 10 p.m. The test was done at a private laboratory.We will treat...
09:46 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Chennai: The move by the Tamil Nadu police to enumerate migrant workers, students and tenants on the basis of their language is an affront to the constitutional freedom of an Indian to live and work anywhere in the country, said civil rights activists and trade union leaders here Friday. Following heists in two banks in Chennai and a jewellery shop in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, the state police has asked...
07:59 AM, Mar 10, 2012
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
Manufacturers in Tirupur are awash with orders from the all over the world but there are not enough workers. ...
10:27 PM, Jun 15, 2007
Police say the accident occurred when the wall collapsed over a makeshift bar building. ...
11:42 PM, May 23, 2007
