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The department of health and family welfare has stated that the loan agreement between the Governments of India and Japan for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai is likely to be signed by March 2021.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu state transport department and adi-dravida welfare department following a complaint from a Madurai-based activist, who stated that the students’ strength in a school in a Sivaganga village, meant for the scheduled castes, has come down drastically due to the absence of proper transport facility.

Madurai Municipal Corporation has set right faulty water connections to a girls’ hostel in Chinna Chokkikulam run by the Adi Dravida Welfare Department within 24 hours after it was brought to the knowledge of the officials.

Seven youths were arrested for vandalising a bakery at Tirupur on Saturday. A special sub inspector of police has been transferred to Udumalpet police station from Tirupur north police station for delay in reaching the crime scene.

Much to the joy of the rail users seeking better connectivity to southern districts, the Southern Railway on Friday announced resumption of the Tirunelveli-Mettupalayam-Tirunelveli weekly overnight special train service from September 1.

Madurai city police arrested an 18-year-old youth from Thiruppalai on charges of marrying and raping a Class X student studying at a school in the city.

A woman commuter who was alone on a ladies coach in a suburban train to Tambaram was harassed by a youth at night on February 9. The youth hopped off the train when it slowed down after she started to shoot a video on her mobile phone.

Though more than 10 lakh commuters use suburban trains, the Southern Railway is yet to bring in or popularise digital payment options at ticket counters for buying tickets or season tickets.

The foetus of an HIV positive 13-year-old girl from Madurai who was repeatedly raped and impregnated by her 50-year-old stepfather was aborted and the teenager rehabilitated at a child care institution on Friday on the directions of the district child welfare committee (CWC) .

An on-the-spot drawing and painting competition was organised by the Safety Engineering department ...

Amidst the soaring demand for better train connectivity between Coimbatore and southern districts, a recent RTI reply from the Southern Railway shows that the Mettupalayam to Tirunelveli overnight special train, on Fridays, generated 42.14 lakh between April 21 and July 2.