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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Hospitalised Lankan refugee gives police the slip

7:52 pm September 16, 2019

Coimbatore: Two Sri Lankan refugees came to blows over illegal dealings in ganja and lottery tickets and were admitted to a hospital from where one of them gave police the slip. The incident happened on Sunday night. The two, staying at the Boluvampatti camp near here, had a fight over their illegal trade and got […]

Alert in Tamil Nadu after intel of Lashkar terrorists’ intrusion

1:27 pm August 23, 2019

Coimbatore: Security has been tightened across Tamil Nadu following intelligence inputs that members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba had infiltrated into the state, police said on Friday. The reports suggested six members of the terror outfit infiltrated into the state by sea from Sri Lanka and moved to different cities, including Coimbatore, according to the police. Security […]

Hatha Yoga Training for Indian Army personnel

7:37 pm August 19, 2019

Coimbatore: A total of 64 personnel of the Indian Army underwent a 14-day Isha Hatha Yoga training programme at the Isha Yoga Centre on the city outskirts. The training ended on Monday,an Isha release said here. Stewarded by the Army Sports Control Board, under the aegis of the Directorate General of Military Training, this initiative […]

Another sexual abuse case in Pollachi; 9 detained

9:48 pm July 6, 2019

Coimbatore: In another case of suspected sexual abuse by a gang in Pollachi, nine persons have been detained for questioning following a complaint from the relatives of a 16-year-old girl, police said Saturday. According to police, the girl, a 10th standard student staying with her grandmother, had developed friendship with a youth in Pollachi, about […]

Assam to cull 12,000 pigs as African swine fever spreads

3 die of asphyxiation in pig farm

7:16 pm June 27, 2019

Coimbatore: Three workers died of asphyxiation on Thursday while cleaning a 10-foot waste pit in a pig farm near here, police said. Three workers were clearing the waste and one of them went into the pit, and developed breathelessness due to poisonous gas and got trapped, the police said. Seeing this, the two other two […]