8.7kg gold smuggled from Lanka seized
Sleuths of the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), Chennai, seized 8.7kg of gold bars worth 2.74 crore from two passengers travelling in a state-run bus near Nagore in Nagappattinam district in...
View ArticleAgri department encourages farmers to go for red gram cultivation in district
With prices of pulses going through the roof, the agriculture department has offered to provide a high-yielding variety of red gram CO (Rg) 7 seeds to farmers to achieve the target cultivation of 3,000...
View ArticleMissing boy's body found after six days, residents block road
Six days after he went missing from home, the body of a 17-year-old boy was found early on Friday.
View ArticleHospital ransacked after patient dies in Tiruvarur
Relatives of an accident victim ransacked a private hospital and injured the hospital staff alleging medical negligence on part of the hospital, in Tiruvarur on Saturday.
View Article14 Tasmac shops in Trichy closed
Following chief minister J Jayalalithaa's order to close 500 Tasmac shops across the state, 14 outlets in Trichy district were closed on Sunday.Welcoming the closure of shops, anti-liquor activists.
View Article'Poverty a major hurdle in stopping child labour'
Poverty is one of the major factors behind child labour, said Trichy principal district judge S Kumaraguru on Saturday.
View ArticleForest officials seize 160 parakeets, 300 muniya birds from four women
Forest officials on Sunday seized 160 parakeets and 300 muniya birds from four women in the city on Sunday.The women were arrested when they were trying to flee to Chennai.
View ArticleHard work, top marks lift this boy's family from misery
S Pandiselvam's parents had been trying for years to get a ration card, but couldn't get one as they were living in a hut put up on revenue land at Kalakkampatti.
View ArticleChipping off to create awareness on nature
School children, college students and even locals tried their hand at stone sculpting during an event organised by RVS KVK School of Architecture on the Cauvery river bed as part of world environment...
View ArticleOn mission to weed out an invasive species
Spreading awareness on the ill-effects of exotic weed 'prosopis juliflora' on water bodies, Shine TREEchy, a voluntary youth organisation in the city transformed the Kollidam river bank at Padithurai...
View ArticleChola-era stone pillar with Tamil inscriptions found
A stone pillar bearing inscriptions in Tamil, believed to be over 1,000 years old, was unearthed from a dry tank in Purthikoyil village near Manapparai in Trichy district on Sunday.
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Court convicts two in separate sexual assault cases
Karur district Mahila court on Monday passed judgments in two sexual abuse cases, one of a minor dalit girl and another of a young woman.
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Trichy Marathon on Sept 25
Trichy Marathon-2016 aimed at creating awareness on organ donation will be held in the city on September 25, 2016.CII, Yi Trichy and Kauvery Hospital will be organizing the event.
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One dead as bus, lorry collide
One person was killed and nine people were injured when a bus collided with a lorry near Viralimalai at midnight on Sunday.
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With no community certificates, these kids are denied access to higher edu
For two 17-year-old boys, higher education in college remains a mirage as they are yet to get the community certificate for scheduled tribes (ST) in Trichy.
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MGR statue at Cantonment to stay put
The city corporation has once again ruled out the possibility of relocating the statue of former chief minister MGR in the traffic island near Cantonment.
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Young lovers end lives in Trichy park
Facing stiff opposition from both their families for their marriage, inter-religious young lovers committed suicide by consuming poison at a park in the city in the late hours of Tuesday.
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Trichy switches to IPV in polio fight
On the first day of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) immunization drive in Trichy district, 436 children below the age of 1 in urban and rural areas were administered the injectable vaccine on Wednesday.
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Advocates in city observe hunger strike
More than 500 advocates participated in a one-day token hunger strike in the city on Wednesday, demanding the withdrawal of the amendment in section 34(1) of the Advocates Act 1961.
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IIM-T increases batch intake by 70
All set to move to a state-of-the-art campus this academic year, the Indian Institute of Management-Trichy (IIM-T) has increased the batch intake from this academic year.
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