Coimbatore: It has been five months since former municipal administration minister S P Velumani laid foundation stone to commence road laying work at Cheran Managar, Kumudham Nagar and surrounding areas. But the city corporation stopped the work after laying wet mix, which is causing inconvenience to the public.
The Tamil Nadu water and drainage (TWAD) board had dug up the road to lay drinking water pipelines and to provide household water connections a year ago. Once the pipeline laying work was completed, the workers closed the holes using debris instead of restoring them properly, said N R Ravisankar, a resident and president of the Consumer Awareness and Protection Association.
Coimbatore: Challenging political giants, several professionals, industrialists and activists had contested as independent candidates in the state assembly election in the district.
Several of them made a splash, toiled and made tall promises during the campaign. Even though many of them were confident of attending assembly sessions, the ground reality differed at large as voters seem to prefer political candidates to them.
Of the 137 candidates, who contested from Coimbatore district, as many as 65 about 47% of them had contested as independents. While constituencies like Singanallur, Coimbatore North, Coimbatore South and urban segments of the district had more than 10 independents, the number of independents in rural segments like Pollachi and Valparai was low.
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AAA The All Women Police Station (AWPS), Coimbatore east, has registered a case against a 26-year-old man on the charges of impregnating a woman by promising to marry her and forcing her for abortion. The police also booked his parents and a cousin who allegedly used casteist slurs against her and threatened her of defaming in social media.
Dinesh Kumar, his father Palanisamy (56), mother Saraswathi (54) from Karunanidhi Nagar at SIHS Colony and Kumar’s cousin Karthik (23) were booked based on a complaint lodged by a 20-year-old woman.
The woman alleged in her complaint that Kumar impregnated her by promising to marry her. The complaint said that Kumar refused to marry her when she told him that she was pregnant. She alleged that Kumar gave her abortion pills in January this year, when she was in the third month of pregnancy, and the pregnancy was aborted. Her complaint said that Kumar’s parents used casteist slurs and other remarks against her when
Coimbatore: Industrialist K Maniraj entered the election fray by filing his nomination papers on Tuesday to contest from Singanallur constituency as an independent.
The 58-year-old resident of Cheran Managar, which falls under Kavundampalayam constituency, has chosen Singanallur as his battleground because of the presence of about 1.5 lakh micro, small and medium enterprises in the assembly constituency. Singanallur is home to several foundries, pump set makers and grinder players.
“I am contesting on behalf of the industrialists. I am entering the poll fray as I want to voice their concerns directly in the assembly. None of the politicians has spoken for us before,” Maniraj said.