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COIMBATORE: Two Tasmac salesmen were caught taking a bribe of Rs 70,000 on Wednesday night from the manager of the bar attached to their outlet by threatening to cancel his licence if he didn’t oblige to their demand of selling liquor at a higher price.
A sleuth attached to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) identified the accused as Lenin, 43, of Podhanur and Saravanan, 50, of Palathurai.
The officer said the duo had approached the bar manager Vinoth, asking him to sell the Tasmac outlet’s liquor bottles at a higher price and demanding a monthly payout of Rs 70,000. “When Vinoth refused, they threatened to tarnish the name of the bar amid the customers and cancel the bar’s licence.”
COIMBATORE: K Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), on Thursday said the Unity Sat - three academic satellites developed by as many educational institutions - would provide an overview of real space mission and how space players could revolutionize the Indian space sector with faster, better and cheaper access to the space.
He was addressing a gathering virtually after remotely inaugurating the ground stations of Unity Sat on the premises of Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology in Coimbatore, JPR Institute of Technology in Chennai and GH Raisoni College of Engineering in Nagpur. The Isro is expected to launch the satellites in February.
COIMBATORE: A Class XI girl student of the government higher secondary school at Kinathukadavu in the district has won third place in the 3D visual art category at the national-level Kala Utsav that was virtually conducted by the human resource development ministry about two weeks ago. The results were announced on Thursday.
S Kiruthika bagged the prize by sculpting the images of folk dance forms of therukoothu, mayilattam and karagattam in sand. “While I used to paint ever since I was in Class VII, I selected sand as a medium for the first time on December 10, 2020, a few days before the competition. I visited my art teacher’s house almost daily since then and practiced for more than seven hours a day,” she said.
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COIMBATORE: With the number of active Covid-19 cases falling below the 450-mark, the health department closed the main Covid care centre at Codissia complex on Tuesday.
There were 1,400-odd beds at the centre, set up in July first week to host asymptomatic Covid-19 patients.
As of now, only the Covid care centre at Karunya University in Madhampalayam is open, which has 17 patients.
The department had taken over three halls in Codissia complex when the number of active cases was hovering around 5,000. “With active cases less than 10% of that number, we decided to temporarily close the centre. But we will retain the Karunya Covid care centre, which has 607 beds,” deputy director of public health Dr G Ramesh Kumar said.