Mystery solved: Man behind bomb threat letters arrested
A 32-year-old man who kept the police on tenterhooks for the past eight months by sending bomb threat letters to various sensitive places in and around the city was arrested on Sunday.
View ArticleEx-LTTE man held while trying to flee
The city police arrested a former LTTE operative while he was attempting to escape to Switzerland on a fake passport at Trichy International Airport on Sunday.
View ArticleStudents try to hold 'liquor drinking protest' demanding prohibition in TN,...
Members of Vidiyalai Thedi wanted to hold the novel protest demanding that the government impose prohibition in the state.
View ArticleControversy-hit crematorium opens after 2 wks
Two weeks after the city corporation-owned gassifier crematorium at Karumandapam was ransacked by relatives of a deceased woman over gross irregularities in cremating dead bodies, it has now been...
View ArticleSuspects to undergo lie detector test
The Trichy unit of CB-CID recently submitted a petition before a judicial magistrate court here seeking permission to conduct lie detector test on 10 suspects as part of its investigation into KN...
View ArticleStudents' bid to drink and protest against pro-liquor policy foiled
In a bid to "shame the state government" over its delay in imposing the much talked about alcohol ban, members of a recently-launched students organisation in Tamil Nadu tried a 'liquor drinking...
View ArticleTMC demands resignation of Radha Mohan over commentfor passing 'derogatory'...
The state agricultural wing of Tamil Manila Congress staged a protest against the 'derogatory' remarks given by Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh who said that impotency and love affairs are...
View ArticleDocs trained to deal with maternal mortality in TN
In order to bring down the maternal mortality rate (MMR), a team of medical professionals from Singapore launched a four-day programme to train doctors and staff nurses at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial...
View ArticleMeet on smart city ends abruptly as councillors clash
An altercation between councillors over the delay in the execution of several developmental projects in the city stalled the stakeholder’s meet at the city corporation who met to carry out consultation...
View ArticleParalympic champ travels all the way to Rameswaram to pay last respect to his...
The former president of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam has touched the lives of many people, young and old.This 21-year-old differently-abled youth P Tamilagan surely is one among them.
View ArticleGovt's self-defence training for girls runs into rough weather
Recently, the state government came out with an order to empower girl students of government schools with self-defence training following the rise in the number of sexual abuse cases.
View ArticleCauvery may not reach tail-end areas
Farmers in the tail-end areas of the Cauvery river are a worried lot as they fear that water released from the Mettur dam would not actually reach them before 'Aadi Perukku' celebrations which falls on...
View ArticleResidents, politicians pay homage to Kalam
People from all walks of life in the city mourned the death of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam by taking out processions and paying floral tributes on Thursday.
View Article13 panchaloha idols unearthed in Tiruvarur
Idols of Lord Shiva, Lakshmi and Natraja in various sizes were unearthed from a house in Tiruvarur on Thursday.
View ArticleSouth Africa ropes in travel agents in TN to woo tourists
Travel agents from across the state have been roped in to boost tourism in South Africa. Various travel packages have been introduced to attract tourists at the country, where number of vacationers...
View ArticleYoga centre in BDU on the verge of being closed due to fund crunch
It was just over a month ago that India along with the rest of the world celebrated the first International Yoga Day.
View ArticlePrivate school students find Tamil a tough nut to crack
Seventeen-year-old Venkatesh completed his Class 12 recently, but struggles to fill even an application form in Tamil, his mother tongue.
View ArticleStandoff between drivers and owners of LPG trucks resolved
The standoff between the drivers and owners of trucks operating on contract with bottling plant of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at Inamkulathur in Trichy was resolved with the Madurai bench of the...
View ArticleStandoff between drivers and owners of LPG trucks resolved
The standoff between the drivers and owners of trucks operating on contract with bottling plant of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at Inamkulathur in Trichy was resolved with the Madurai bench of the...
View ArticleInter-departmental tussle delays Trichy Junction overbridge project
Aristo Roundtana or ‘Trichy Junction Road Overbridge’ project is likely to face further delay due to inter-departmental land acquisition issue which continues to be a bone of contention between the...
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