Locals lock bar for selling liquor round the clock
Villagers of Manalmekudi in Pudukkottai district locked a bar attached to a Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) outlet on Saturday for selling liquor round the clock.
View ArticleAIADMK worker climbs up Rock Fort on knees for party leader Jayalalithaa
While it is an uphill task to climb the 417 steps to the Uchchi Pillaiyar Temple, an AIADMK functionary achieved this feat on his knees on Sunday, all for his party leader and chief minister J...
View ArticleCollege student drowns in Kollidam river
A 21-year-old college student from Chennai drowned in the Kollidam river while bathing on Sunday.
View ArticleFour of family killed as van rams bus
Four members of a family were killed and seven others injured in an accident near Pommadimalai on the Pudukkottai-Trichy highway on Sunday evening.
View ArticleDrive focuses on apartment dwellers
In an effort to create awareness about the deadly dengue fever ahead of the rainy season, the city corporation has launched a mass drive.This time, the focus is on residential apartments.
View ArticleGroup protests temple consecration plan, threatens to surrender ration cards
On Monday, a group called the 'Nallathambi Kulam retrieval federation' submitted a petition to collector K S Palanisamy to remove a small temple on the site.
View ArticleOver 2 lakh students in city to be given nilavembu kudineer
In all, 2,35,253 students, including children in anganwadis, will be covered in the drive that will go on till June 17.
View ArticleGovt elementary school goes all out to attract students
To attract students just as private schools are doing, a panchayat union school in Pudukkottai has launched a campaign through advertisements.
View ArticleNow, Aavin's swanky outlet at Kottapattu promises a rare treat
A swanky parlour run by the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Limited (Aavin) here is all set to give a tough competition to private players in the dairy segment.
View ArticleGandhi Market loadmen stage stir over wages, issue resolved
A stand-off between loadmen and commission agents over fixing of wages led to perishable onion worth Rs 2 crore left uncared for in 78 shops at the Gandhi Market on Tuesday morning.
View ArticleFinancial woes drive family of 4 to suicide
Troubled by financial crisis and health issues, a family of four committed suicide at their house in Pudukkottai town.
View ArticleDalit man assaulted by upper caste Hindu pals
A dalit man is battling for life in a hospital in Thanjavur after he was brutally assaulted last Wednesday by youths belonging to a caste Hindu community for allegedly having an affair with a relative...
View ArticleWoman clobbers husband to death
Unable to bear his mental and physical torture, a 45-year-old woman clobbered her alcoholic husband to death with a wooden log in the midnight of Monday.
View ArticleTN heading for power crisis, says BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh
Terming the Tamil Nadu government's announcement of 100 units of free electricity to the people farcical, BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh said in Trichy on Wednesday the state would face a...
View ArticlePolice clueless on Thanjavur temple theft
The absence of CCTV surveillance cameras and a defunct burglar alarm have left the police clueless about the burglary at the Sri Abhishta Varadharaja Perumal temple run by the Hindu religious and...
View ArticleAnbunathan appears before court in connection with unaccounted cash seized...
Karur-based businessman CP Anbunathan appeared before the chief judicial magistrate court in Karur on Wednesday in connection with the seizure of unaccounted cash in the run-up to the assembly election...
View ArticleChain snatcher in police uniform targets cop's wife
Adding to the series of chain snatching incidents reported from across the city, a man in police uniform snatched around six sovereigns of gold from the wife of a senior policeman on Wednesday.
View ArticleGang hacks party functionary to death in Trichy
An unidentified gang hacked a district-level functionary of the Tamizhar Neethi Katchi to death at a village in Ariyalur district in the midnight of Tuesday. Police are yet to ascertain the reason...
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On the run for 7 years, wife killer done in by Facebook selfie
Much has been said about the perils of taking selfies. Here we have a killer on the run for seven years landing behind bars after his selfie posted on Facebook gave himself away.
View ArticleDMDK councillors threaten self-immolation in Trichy
Police personnel spoke to the agitating councillors through public address system and persuaded them to climb down.The councillors budged after officials assured to initiate action against the chairman.
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