A house-to-house survey will be conducted to identify differently-abled persons in the Coimbatore district and their needs, said Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V. Senthil Balaji here on Sunday. He said the survey was to identify persons who are yet to get disability certificates and various assistance from the government. Mr Balaji flagged off...
Read MoreTNAU arrear exam results shows candidates were unsuccessful, which has triggered the students to uphold protest at the university premises.Over 200 students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here on Saturday blocked a road in the front of the university protesting against the management. 12 bachelor’s courses are offered by the TNAU including...
Read MoreFarmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode districts has stressed the need for marketing support from the State government at a meeting held here on Saturday. Representatives of more than 30 FPOs in the three districts took part in the meeting chaired by the Directorate of Agricultural Marketing and Agri-Business S. Natarajan....
Read MoreThe Revenue Department and the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department are making efforts to provide free housing for Kadar tribe families that were given patta for homesteads in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) in November. A senior official from the Revenue Department told that the free housing would be offered through a scheme...
Read MoreConstruction contractors have flayed the centralized approval system that the city traffic police have introduced for carrying out repair works of drinking water and underground drainage pipelines on the city roads, stating the same was causing delays in addressing leakages. A few days ago, one of the contractors said, there was a breach in...
Read MoreThe rain that lashed Coimbatore city for two hours from 3 pm to 5 pm on Saturday brought low-lying areas under sheets of water. Fire and Rescue Services Department personnel rescued at least 12 persons from vehicles that got trapped in underpasses in the city. The underpass of the Avinashi Road flyover was filled...
Read MoreTourism Minister Dr M. Mathivendan inspected Valankulam and Ukkadam Periyakulam, tourism spots of Coimbatore district. During the inspection, the Director of Tourism, Chandip Nanthuri, Collector Dr GS Sameeran, Corporation Commissioner Rajagopal Sunkara, district tourism officer Aravind Kumar and many government officials were present. Following this, the Minister inspected the Hotel Tamil Nadu in Gandhipuram....
Read MoreA team from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), Coimbatore, collected soil samples from Semanampathy near Anaimalai, where garbage brought from Kerala was dumped in an unscientific manner. Locals had seized three trucks when they carried garbage from Kerala to dump it on private land at Semanampathy in April this year. Following this,...
Read MoreA Coimbatore-based college student has bagged a gold medal in the 14th India National Open Karate Championship – 2021. S Ruban, an IIIrd year BCom student of CMS College of Science and Commerce, has over 30 medals in his kitty. The boy, who bagged an international gold in the 12th Asian Level Open Karate...
Read MoreCoimbatore-based Boom Motors, the new high-tech Indian EV brand, announced that over 36,000 bookings have been made so far for the newly launched Boom Corbett which would be rolled out from January next year. The bike with swappable batteries was a head-turner and received accolades from EV enthusiasts across the country and the company....
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