Buildings flout norms on parking lots
Flouting town planning norms, commercial establishments in the city are using spaces earmarked for parking for commercial purposes.
View ArticleFilm kindles interest in rooftop garden, may soon become reality
A desire of many women to create a rooftop vegetable garden like a heroin in a recently released Tamil movie ‘36 Vayadhinile’ may soon be fulfilled.
View ArticleProstitution racket busted, 2 men and 1 woman arrested
Two men and a woman were arrested on Saturday night for allegedly running prostitution racket at a house in Karumandapam in the city.
View ArticleInter-caste couple in Trichy fears honour killing, petition collector seeking...
A young couple who feared they would be killed for marrying without the consent of the girl’s family approached the district collector on Monday and sought protection.
View ArticleState gets 50 more medical seats
Bringing cheers to medical aspirants, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has given green signal to increase the number of medical seats from 100 to 150 at the KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College...
View ArticleAnesthesia costs life of 49-yr-old woman in Trichy, kin protest
The death of a 49-year-old woman, who was administered anesthesia by some staff instead of an anaesthetist before an appendicitis surgery, dragged a senior anesthetist into controversy at the Mahatma...
View ArticleCenturies-old ‘padithurai mandapas’ on the verge of destruction
The ‘padithurai mandapas’ on the south bank of Cauvery River near Oyamari, believed to be at least 250 years old, is in a dilapidated state as the public and authorities fail to treat it with the...
View Article3 killed in under-construction wall collapse on school premises in Trichy
Three people, including a 16-year-old girl, were killed and two others injured when an under-construction building wall at a school at Veppanthattai in Perambalur collapsed on Sunday night.
View ArticleRetired veterinary doctor dies in road accident caused by chain-snatchers...
An 80-year-old retired veterinary doctor died after a speeding two-wheeler, on which two men were trying to escape after snatching a woman’s gold chain, hit him on the outskirts of Trichy on Monday night.
View ArticleNew sand mining policy soon: Centre
The government will bring a new national policy on sand mining in a couple of months to check illegal exploitation of river beds, Union minister of state for environment Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday.
View ArticleDVAC registers case against former DMK minister, 18 others
Directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC), Trichy has reportedly registered a case against former state transport minister K N Nehru of the DMK and 18 officials of the Tamil Nadu State...
View ArticleTrichy–Dindigul doubling to be completed by December 15
Train travel between Chennai – Madurai will go down by a considerable one hour once track doubling work on the stretch is completed by the end of 2016, Southern Railway general manager Ashok Kumar...
View ArticleSakthi brigade to man women’s coaches
The Sakthi women brigade of the Railway Police Force (RPF) will soon be manning women’s coaches and would be travelling on trains that are running in the Trichy division to prevent any incidents of crime.
View ArticlePeacock hit by train at Trichy railway station dies
A peacock was found dead at the Trichy Railway Station after it was hit by Chennai-bound Vaigai Express on Tuesday.
View ArticleTrichy to get unified metro transport authority
Trichy has been selected as one of the eight cities in the country which will soon have a unified metropolitan transport authority (UMTA), an agency backed by the ministry of urban development.
View ArticleBJP will be part of ruling govt: Tamilisai
State BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan said on Tuesday that her party would certainly be a part of the ruling government in Tamil Nadu after the assembly elections in 2016.
View Article‘Fly Easy’ to begin service from Trichy to Bangalore
Fly Easy, a Bangalore-based carrier, will be the new entrant at the Trichy Airport.
View ArticleMan dies in accident caused by burglars near Trichy
An 80-year-old man lost his life in a road accident caused by two motorbike-borne burglars on the outskirts of Trichy on Monday.
View ArticleTN recalls textbook after finding MK name
The Tamil Nadu education department has ordered withdrawal of Class 11 economics textbook after finding that the preface refers to DMK chief M Karunanidhi as the chief minister and Thangam Thennarasu...
View ArticleFunds’ misuse: Nehru denies role
The noose tightened around the neck of DMK bigwig K N Nehru and 18 officials of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) as the directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) kicked off the...
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