‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’ torch reaches Wellington Military Station
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150 war veterans to be felicitated in Coimbatore on March 10
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Former Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General S. Pattabhiraman honouring a war veteran at MRC in Wellington on Monday.
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150 war veterans to be felicitated in Coimbatore on March 10 The ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’ torch reached the Shrinagesh Barracks at the Wellington Military Station on Monday. The year-long Swarnim Vijay Varsh celebrations started from December 20, 2020 to commemorate the victory of the Armed forces in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War.
The torch was received by Brigadier Rajeshwar Singh, Commandant of the Madras Regimental Centre and Station Commander, Wellington Military Station. He was joined by veterans from the 1971 war led by former Vice-Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General S. Pattabhiraman, the senior-most veteran at the occasion.
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March 07, 2021 09:25 IST
Colonel Piyush S. Katal, Station Commander, Coimbatore, received the victory flame from a team of defence personnel on the campus of 110 Infantry Battalion at Red Fields.
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Ceremonial welcome: Colonel Piyush S. Katal, Station Commander, Coimbatore, receiving the flame of victory marking the golden jubilee of the 1971 Indo-Pak war, in the city on Saturday.
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Colonel Piyush S. Katal, Station Commander, Coimbatore, received the victory flame from a team of defence personnel on the campus of 110 Infantry Battalion at Red Fields. As part of the ongoing celebration of the golden jubilee of the country’s victory in the 1971 India- Pakistan war, a victory flame reached Coimbatore on Saturday.
Final electoral roll for districts released
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The final electoral roll (photo electoral roll) released on Wednesday has listed 30,62,744 voters in the 10 Assembly constituencies in Coimbatore district.
M. Karunakaran, Director of Handlooms and Textiles and Electoral Roll Observer for Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode, the Nilgiris districts, released the final roll in the presence of Coimbatore District Collector K. Rajamani and senior officials.
As per the final electoral roll, there are 15,09,531 male voters, 15,52,799 female voters and 414 voters in the other gender category in Coimbatore district.
Of the total voters who have found places in the final electoral roll, 37,667 voters are aged 18 and 19.
Activists to stage hunger strike in Coimbatore condemning illegal red earth mining
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December 29, 2020 14:42 IST
Activists from the Thadagam Valley Mineral Resources Protection Committee alleged that the illegal red earth mining in Thadagam valley has seen a sharp increase “in the past three days”
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Activists from the Thadagam Valley Mineral Resources Protection Committee alleged that the illegal red earth mining in Thadagam valley has seen a sharp increase “in the past three days”
Activists from the Thadagam Valley Mineral Resources Protection Committee will stage a hunger strike on January 5 in Coimbatore, condemning the alleged increase in red earth mining at Thadagam valley. Members of the Committee petitioned Coimbatore District Collector K. Rajamani and City Commissioner of Police Sumit Sharan seeking permission for the hunger strike on Tuesday.
Coimbatore District Collector K. Rajamani reconstituted the district level advisory committee for food safety recently.
The committee with the Collector as its chairperson has the Deputy Director of Health Services as the vice-chairperson and the designated officer of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) as the secretary.
Officials, including Coimbatore District (Rural) Superintendent of Police, District Agriculture Officer, District Supply Officer and District Education Officer have been appointed as its members.
According to a release issued by the FSSAI, the main function of the committee is to monitor and ensure enforcement of the Food Safety and Standards Act in the district.