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The 50th edition of Festember, the annual cultural festival of the National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi, got under way on Thursday with a host of activities and special programmes set to unfold over the weekend under the theme of “Deccan Odyssey”. Cyril John, chairperson, Festember ’24, and R. Karvembu, Dean, Students’ Welfare, were present. Cast members Rana Daggubatti, Rakshan, …

Tiruchi city police conducted six camps for missing persons’ families to help them retrace family members. The camps helped in tracing up to 102 missing persons from the six city ranges in Tiruchi respectively. The camps were conducted to expedite the pending cases of missing persons in the city police range at the earliest. The venues for the camps to …

The 25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas to commemorate the victory of India over Pakistan during the 1999 Kargil War was celebrated in Tiruchi on Friday. An event was organised at the Major Saravanan Memorial here by the 2 Tamil Nadu Battalion NCC, Tiruchi, during which civil society members, military personnel, and ex-servicemen paid their homage and tribute to Major …

Local authorities are stepping up efforts to form a vending committee to streamline and regulate street vendors in Tiruchi, beginning with the distribution of identity cards to over 5,000 hawkers. According to official sources, the Corporation is taking steps to form the 15-member town vending committee and for election of six of its members from among traders by August. An …

Demonstrations were held by various outfits in Tiruchi and Pudukottai against the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy in which several persons perished and demanded eradication of illicit liquor. A section of members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India staged a demonstration near the Tiruchi Collectorate, led by its district secretary R. Sethupathy. A group of members of farmers wing of the …

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Members of the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers Organisations and Government Employees Organisation on Tuesday staged a demonstration and resorted to road blockade near District Collector’s office in Tiruchi to press for their charter of demands, including revival of the old pension scheme. Hundreds of Jacto-Geo members gathered near Tiruchi Collectorate and raised slogans in support of their …

One of the seven freed convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, V. Srikaran alias Murugan, currently lodged in Tiruchi Special Camp, has filed a petition before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking relief. Murugan, a native of Sri Lanka, said he, his wife Nalini, another freed convict in the case, and other family members were living …

Steady decline in COVID-19 cases has come as a big relief to textile traders in Tiruchi as they can carry out their business without any disruption from the authorities. A couple of leading textile showrooms on NSB Road in the city had to be closed temporarily for a few weeks in July after some staff members tested positive for COVID-19. …