K. Krishnamoorthy

Suresh P spearheads a group of youngsters from Kathalai village in monitoring vehicles and people in and out of his hamlet.

The Dindigul district police, on Friday, seized 300 kg of ganja and arrested seven people in connection with smuggling of the banned contraband.

At least two contract employees were buried alive due to a landslide while they were carrying out the works of laying underground drainage (UGD) pipelines at Sattur in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district in the early hours of Sunday.

Three teenage boys who took a train to Trichy to witness the rescue operation of Sujith Wilson from the borewell at Nadukkattupatti were rescued by social workers here on Monday and two of them were handed over to their parents on Wednesday.

A Buddha dhyana mandapam which is being built with funds mobilized from industrialists and the public was inaugurated at Thiyaganur in Thalaivasal taluk by Salem district collector K Maharabushanam yesterday.

Residents of the Veerankuppam panchayat on Monday staged a demonstration on the Palar Riverbed demanding the closure of a government-approved sand quarry for bullock carts.

Allocations for government welfare schemes and loans that people can take under various plans were announced by Coimbatore collector Archana Patnaik on Tuesday.

On the second anniversary of the Pettimudy landslide, which killed 70 people, another major landslide occurred in Munnar at Puthukkady. No casualties were reported. The villagers had a narrow escape as the rocks and loose soil that crashed down from the hill slope fell on a road downhill.

Planning to sell or buy a used vehicle? The wait for completion of ownership transfer might get a bit longer. Reason: Assembly elections.

Jewellers in Coimbatore shut shop on Tuesday as a mark of protest against the Kerala government’s stance on the Mullaperiyar dam.

Refusing to vacate the stay granted for reopening of the Gandhi market in Trichy district, the Madras high court on Monday directed the Trichy Corporation to submit a report on the feasibility of setting up a permanent markets at eight different places to benefit the public and to decongest the city.