Coimbatore: The high decibel canvassing of votes for the 2021 assembly polls came to end at 7pm on Sunday, as candidates ended the campaign with a punch.
Political parties opted for everything from bike rallies to processions and additional poll promises, hoping to leave a mark on the minds of the voters. DMK’s N Karthik and BJP leader Vanathi Srinivasan organized two-wheeler rallies, while the MNM had its top boss’ daughter Akshara dancing to the beats of a music band during a door-to-door campaign with aunt Suhashini Maniratnam.
AIADMK’s S P Velumani, accompanied by his son, made a fervent plea to the residents of his locality to vote for him. The Congress had its general secretary Gundu Rao accompanying the party’s lone candidate in the district, Mayura Jayakumar, for the last leg of campaign at Puliyakulam. Coimbatore MP and veteran left leader P R Natarajan also joined the Congress leaders in the campaign.
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COIMBATORE: Unidentified people broke open a house at K Chettipalayam on the Dharapuram Road in Tirupur city and escaped with 120 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 28 lakh in cash.
The burglary happened in the house of A Shabiullah, 54. Shabiullah, who runs a screen printing unit, is the secretary of the Tamil Nadu State Amateur Kabaddi Association.
Shabiullah, his wife and son went to Ooty on April 2. On Monday morning, his younger brother A Hithayatullah found the main door lock broken open. He alerted the Tirupur city police and his elder brother.
Tirupur city police commissioner G Karthikeyan said three special teams had been formed to nab the burglars. One of the teams was collecting CCTV footages from nearby buildings.
Students are largely moving to the UK, Canada and the US to pursue higher education.
A year into the global pandemic, there has been a revival in the number of students flying abroad for higher education from Tamil Nadu.
Students are largely moving to the UK, Canada and the US to pursue higher education. The demand for medical education in Russia has shot up even as admissions across colleges in China have grinded to a halt during the past one year, following the outbreak of Covid-19.
Data furnished by the Union minister of state for external affairs, V Muraleedharan in the Lok Sabha last week, revealed that 4,355 students from Tamil Nadu travelled abroad for studies in January and February this year. Tamil Nadu accounted for 6%of of the total number of students who went to foreign countries for higher studies this year.