R. Muthukumar

The district police on Tuesday night thwarted plans by a seven-member gang to commit robberies in Karamadai.Police had received information about the gang roaming in Kannarpalayam, Karamadai, in suspicious circumstances.

Police arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly stole gold jewellery from patients in various hospitals.

City police commissioner Sanjay Kumar on Friday detained three men, who are charged with the murder of a moneylender, under the goondas Act.

Three people, including a couple, died in two road accidents in Madurai on Sunday night.

Trichy Corporation commissioner V Saravanan felicitated sanitary worker R Muthukumar at the main office on Monday.

Noisy speakers of candidates which used to go on till 10 pm were turned off at 6 pm on Thursday as curtains came down on the campaign for the urban civic body polls to be held on Saturday.

A 25-year-old engineer from Tuticorin district, who was working in Chennai, committed suicide by consuming poison reportedly dejected after hearing the news of his lover's father arranging her marriage with someone else. To make matters worse, the deceased man's friends ransacked the girl's house and damaged the property inside.

Two incidents of house break-ins were reported in the city. Unidentified burglars decamped with gold jewellery and silver articles weighing 10 sovereigns and 2kg respectively.

The roads in rural parts of Trichy district have been given a facelift ahead of chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s visit to the district for state assembly election campaign

A 68-year-old French citizen of Puducherry origin was found dead at her residence here on Tuesday. S Honorine was living with her six-year-old granddaughter born to her adopted daughter.

The ‘India Against Corruption’ movement is slowly gaining pace, with several residents pouring on to the streets to support Anna Hazare’s fight against graft.

B Anandhi, 16, attempted suicide by consuming pesticide after her father scolded her. Little did she know how much pain it would cause her when doctors inserted a plastic tube into her neck to compensate for her damaged windpipe.

The move to add more sporting facilities to develop Somasundaram ground in T Nagar has invited the ire of residents and those who have been using the 4.9acre space to play cricket for years.

A radio jockey and an NRI software engineer from New Jersey, have come together because of their passion for biking, movies and natural farming.

Being sixteen and bedridden while all his friends were in school was not what Muthuraj had expected his life to turn out to be.The boy was suffering from a congenital bone defect that had left him immobile.

: The Trichy corporation during the monthly council meeting on Tuesday informed that stray cattle impounding centres will be opened in all zones, amid opposition from a section of councillors against the enforcement. At present, only one safe shelter is available across the city at Konakkarai in zone V, to accommodate the seized cattle. Four more centres will be opened in the other zones to intensify and sustain the drive to prevent accidents due to stray cattle.

As 2023 edges closer, the race against dates begins in Sivakasi, one of the major hubs of calendar manufacturing in Tamil Nadu. But there’s trouble brewing this year as the business of manufacturing daily calendars has started to inch towards Madurai.

BANGALORE: In a world that is increasingly becoming loud, these people remain blissfully unaware of the commotion. But bliss or not, the plight of the average hearing impaired person remains a case of questionable happiness in our society.

Revenue officials were wrongfully confined at a farm house property belonging to the directors of Sree Daksha Property Developers India Private Limited situated in Moongilmadai village near Alandurai, when they had gone there to reclaim an acre of poromboke land the developers had encroached on Thursday afternoon.

V Deepan and R Muthukumar chronicled their ride in a book