Thavamani

A 36-year-old woman has been arrested for snatching a gold chain weighing 7.25 sovereigns from a shop owner on 7th street extension at Rathinapuri here on Friday evening after spraying an insecticide on her face.

A woman, 36, who snatched a 7.2-sovereign gold chain from a woman shop owner on 7th Street Extension at Rathinapuri on Friday after spraying her with insecticide was nabbed after the owner offered resistance and raised an alarm.

A family dispute in Salem district led to a tragic incident where a man attacked his wife and three children with a sickle. Two of the children, Vidyadharani, 13, and Arul Prakash, 5, died from their injuries, while the wife thavamani and the third child, Arul Kumari, are in critical condition. Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect.

Cleared/390 Words 'Skills are never taught, they are acquired.I can give you a camera, but cannot feed your vision', renowned photojournalist Raghu Rai once said.

Three convicts were released from Madurai Central Prison on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhiji’s 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday.

A woman, her two daughters and her son were sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment on Thursday for murdering her son-in-law over a family dispute in 2017.

Three men who hurled a crude country bomb at policemen, who tried to intercept them during night patrolling near Manamadurai in Sivaganga district, were arrested and remanded to custody on Tuesday.

All the DMK candidates contesting for the chairmanship of the six standing committees of the city corporation were elected unopposed on Thursday.The election was supposed to take place at the Victoria Hall, but the three women and three men candidates were elected unopposed.

The state government should conduct castewise census soon without making changes to the 20% MBC reservation, and also hold consultations with 115 communities in this category, representatives of 115 MBC/ DNT Communities Joint Action Forum for Social Justice has said.

A usual day for thavamani Palaniappan, councillor for ward 25 of Coimbatore corporation, begins at 6am with phone calls from residents of the ward complaining about uncleared garbage and issues in drinking water supply. She reaches the ward by 6.30am to check the problem and then calls up the corporation officials, and ensures that the complaint is resolved.

City coprpration councillors from the north zone on Friday urged the civic body to increase the number of conservancy workers in each ward, as the manpower shortage has hit the cleanliness drive.