After the rush of people with professional qualifications seeking sweeper jobs in Tamil Nadu Assembly Secretariat early this year, it is now the turn of Coimbatore Corporation to be flooded with applications from engineers and others for the post of sanitary worker. The Coimbatore Corporation had called applications for 549 […]
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Man dies while cleaning manhole in Tamil Nadu’s Kumbakonam
A 55-year-old man died while cleaning a manhole in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district on Thursday, according to police, two days after a similar death in state capital Chennai. Kumbakonam Police said the man was identified as Sadhik Batsha, a resident of Melakkaveri in the district. Batsha, who was […]
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Woman rider hit by truck while trying to avoid AIADMK flagpole in Tamil Nadu
Merely two months after a controversy broke out over hoardings in Tamil Nadu, a woman rider was on Monday morning hit by a truck while she was trying to avoid an AIADMK flagpole, which had fallen on the road near Goldwins area at Avinashi road here. According to the police, […]
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In Tamil Nadu, schools, colleges in 6 districts to remain close due to heavy rain
All schools and colleges in six districts across the state will remain closed on Wednesday owning to heavy rainfall in the region. According to the state government, schools and colleges in Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Theni, Virudhunagar, Vellore and Ramanathapuram will remain shut today. All schools in Madurai district will also remain […]
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Rescuers racing against time to save toddler from borewell in Tamil Nadu
Rescuers are racing against time to save a two-year-old boy who fell into a 600 feet abandoned borewell near Trichy in Tamil Nadu on Friday but hopes began to recede Sunday morning after a tunnel drilling exercise ran into rocky terrain at 20 ft, slowing down operations, official said. A boring machine […]
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Tamil Nadu ‘Dalit Party’ spearheads demand for de-listing 6 castes from SC list
The Puthiya Tamilagam (PT), a ‘Dalit party’ in Tamil Nadu, has been spearheading the demand to delist six communities from the list of Scheduled Castes, saying their removal is necessary for upward mobility. The PT’s founder president, Dr K Krishnasamy, also quit the ruling AIADMK-led alliance charging the Edappadi K […]