Trichy parks in shambles as civic neglect continues
Parks that have been developed by the Trichy Municipal Corporation (TMC) fail to serve their purpose as they are in a pitiable condition with the young and the old keeping away from them.
View ArticleResidents damage borewell in Cauvery in protest
The onset of summer coupled with water crisis has prompted the residents of Melur area in ward 1 of the Trichy corporation to destroy a borewell dug up under the Ramanathapuram drinking water scheme in...
View ArticleFarmers object over price difference on fertilizers in Trichy
A strong objection over the alleged price difference on fertilizers in Trichy district shocked the district administration and agriculture department officials as the latter could not give them fitting...
View ArticleSenior fire services officer held for graft
A day after the ghastly fire accident in a multi-storied building in Coimbatore, a senior officer in the state department of fire and rescue services has been arrested on graft charges in Kanyakumari...
View ArticleBurns' centre at Sivakasi from September
The death of six people at various firework units in the last 10 days has forced the residents of Sivakasi town to press for the speedy inaugural of the 'centre of excellence for burn treatment'...
View ArticleMadurai corporation to lease out heritage building
Edited/350 The city corporation has decided to lease out the maintenance and operation of Rani Mangammal Chathram which the civic body had renovated recently at a cost of Rs 90 lakh.
View ArticleNon-inclusion of Madurai airport in treaty hindering operations
Frustrated over the repeated appeals to include Madurai airport into the 'bilateral airport treaty', the trade and industrial bodies, political parties and public forums staged a demonstration here to...
View ArticleHC orders re-postmortem on woman's body
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Friday passed orders directing the dean of the Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) to exhume the body of a 24-year-old woman and conduct a re-postmortem on,...
View ArticleCorporation seals building for violation of norms
City corporation officials on Friday sealed a building on South Masi street on charges of violating the norms.
View ArticleHC stays further probe in Nehru wealth case
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Friday granted interim stay over the order of the special court for vigilance and anti-corruption (VAC), Trichy, on April 5.
View ArticleWe write to express our daily struggles: writers from North East
Life amid insurgency and the alleged human rights violations by Armed Forces dominate the works of young writers from North Eastern states who are attending the Sahitya Akademi's young writers meet in...
View ArticleCommunal clashes erupt during AIADMK rule: Stalin
DMK treasurer MK Stalin came down heavily on the ruling party saying that whenever it came to power communal violence erupted in the state.
View ArticleHere, blacksmiths worked iron for centuries
Upon entering the Kollampattarai Theru in Nelpettai one can hear the sounds of hammer on the iron as blacksmiths are busy at hundreds of workshops that dot the lane.
View ArticleThree school employees face action for losing answer sheets
Three bundles of answer sheets were found on a road in Mannargudi, three school employees, including a teacher, are now facing departmental action.
View ArticleBudding writers converge in Madurai
Budding writers and poets from the southern and North Eastern states of the country have converged in the city for Sahitya Akademi's Young Writers' Meet.
View ArticleMale baby found in Pudukottai drain
A just-born male infant was found lying in a drain in a residential area in Pudukottai town on Saturday.
View ArticleOfficial apathy, irregularities keep on claiming lives in Sivakasi
Accidents are likely in fireworks units as they use volatile chemicals, but fatal incidents keep on happening at units here mainly due to lack of adherence to safety norms and official apathy and...
View ArticleProposals to overhaul fireworks industry yet to be implemented
The one-man commission by Chaitanya Prasad to study the issues at fireworks industry here proposed the complete overhaul of the manufacturing process and related norms.
View ArticleCBI probe sought in murder case
A petition has been filed before the Madras high court (Madurai Bench) seeking direction to Tamil Nadu home department to entrust a murder case probe to CBI as CBCID investigation is allegedly unfair...
View ArticleCourt orders promotion of tahsildar as deputy collector
A tahsildar will now get promotion as deputy collector following an order of the Madras high court (Madurai bench) which directed the principal secretary of the revenue department to issue an order to...
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