COIMBATORE: Srivilliputhur Andal temple elephant Jayamalyatha, that was beaten up by its mahout and assistant in February, was sent back to the temple.
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COIMBATORE: Four wagons of a goods train derailed on the ACC Cements factory premises at Madukkarai near Coimbatore in the early hours of Thursday.
No one was injured. Since the derailment happened on an exclusive track, operations on the main railway tracks were not affected.
Palakkad division of Southern Railway said the derailment happened around 4.45 am when the ACC cement’s engine was trying to attach itself to one of the wagons a process called shunting. “The engine and coach did not align with each other properly while attaching. Due to the impact of the engine hitting the wagon, four wagons derailed,” said a spokesperson of the Palakkad Railway Division.
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore zonal unit of directorate general of GST intelligence on Tuesday arrested the proprietor of a private cardamom company for .
Coimbatore: Thousands of senior citizens and middle-aged people with comorbidities flocked to both the private and government vaccination centres in the district to get inoculated on the second day of the drive to vaccinate them. They were found to be more enthusiastic and willing, compared to the health and frontline workers.
On Tuesday, 3,509 people were vaccinated, of which 3,249 were senior citizens and middle-aged people with comorbidities. Most of the multi-speciality hospitals in the city achieved their target of 100 doses a day.
A large chunk of the people also seemed more comfortable with getting vaccinated at private hospitals. As per the data available with the health department, 53% of the 3,249 people took the vaccine from private hospitals.
Coimbatore: Just four days have lapsed since the announcement of state assembly polls, but allegations of voter bribing by the ruling party have already started surfacing in Coimbatore and Tirupur districts.
DMK men lodged a complaint with Coimbatore collector K Rajamani on Tuesday, stating that AIADMK functionaries had stocked up gifts for distribution among the voters in the city. Singanallur MLA N Karthik, who met the collector, said they had thwarted a bid to distribute the gifts at Peelamedu on Monday night. “But their attempts to distribute the gifts is continuing, especially at night.”
DMK men said the gift hampers of dhoties and saris, which were wrapped in covers bearing the images of the late chief minister J Jayalalithaa and the incumbent CM Edappadi K Palaniswami, were stocked at the house of an AIADMK man at Peelamedu in Singanallur assembly segment.