Coimbatore

“Sri Lankan don poisoned to death by revengeful woman?”

7:18 pm August 9, 2020

Coimbatore: The question whether Amani Thanji, who had been living with the Sri Lankan don Angoda Lokka, poisoned him to death to avenge the killing of her husband in the island nation, is doing the rounds among the police and public. The suspicion arose after a postmortem report revealed that the finger and toe nails of the […]

College student’s killer arrested in Kerala

4:18 pm July 20, 2020

Coimbatore: A 24-year-old man, who fatally stabbed a college-goer near here for not reciprocating his love, has been arrested in Thrissur, Kerala, police said on Monday. C Ratheesh, a mechanic, fell in love with the 18-year- old Aishwarya in her first year of college, the police said. After her parents objected to the affair since […]

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20-year-old man fatally stabs lover, injures father

8:36 pm July 18, 2020

Coimbatore: A 20-year-old man is on the run after fatally stabbing his teenage lover near her house on the outskirts of the city, police said on Saturday. C Ratheesh and Aishwarya (18) were in love but her parents objected to it. So, she began avoiding him since the last four months, the police said. Upset […]

Air passenger from Chennai tests COVID-19 positive

10:42 pm May 26, 2020

Coimbatore: An air passenger who had arrived here from Chennai on May 25 tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, making him perhaps the first case of coronavirus since resumption of domestic flights after two months. The 24 year-old man, who arrived by a private carrier, has been since shifted to the ESI Hospital here for […]

Nearly 15,000 guest workers go home from Tamil Nadu

11:52 pm May 20, 2020

Chennai: Nearly 15,000 guest workers left Tamil Nadu for their home states on Wednesday in ten special trains that originated from different cities as the state stepped up measures for the return of the migrants stranded due to the COVID-19 lockdown. The migrant workers, belonging to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand,Odisha and Manipur departed from origin […]