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2 days, 15 hours ago

Road users in Tiruchy call out ‘blatant’ violations by school vehicles

TIRUCHY: Road users in Tiruchy have called out the “reckless driving” by vehicles of educational institutions, particularly those of schools plying students during rush hour, saying that they go about as if they are “governed by their own set of rules”. S Venkatesh of Tennur said, "The school buses stopping in the middle of the road without warning block entire …

Vehicles Tiruchy

1 week ago

Stormwater pools in Tiruchy junction station subway, poor renovation blamed

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Stormwater pooled in the subway connecting platforms at Tiruchy railway junction on Saturday, forcing many passengers to avoid using it. This subway has been facing the situation from 2020 onwards with sources blaming infrastructural renovation work at the station taken up in 2019. The Southern Railway spent roughly over Rs 20 crore for the infrastructural upgrade here, but every …

Railway Station Subway This Station Stormwater Pools Tiruchy Stormwater

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Dhobi Ghat impractical, say laundry workers in Tamil Nadu's Srirangam

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Over 200 laundry workers living at Srirangam are not excited about the Tiruchy corporation's plan to construct a 'Dhobi Ghat', an exclusive washing arena for them. The corporation recently sanctioned about Rs 56 lakh for constructing the facility at a vacant space behind the Science Park in Srirangam in order to enable the launderers to do their work without …

Work Worker Laundry Srirangam Laundry Workers

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Opponents using book launch to create fissures in DMK bloc: Thiruma

New Indian Express

CHENNAI / TIRUCHY : VCK president and Chidambaram MP Thol Thirumavalavan on Friday said he was not pressurred by anyone to skip the launch of a book on BR Ambedkar, which was presided by actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam president Vijay. In a detailed statement, Thiruma said he decided not to participate, realising the conspiracy and unnecessary sensationalisation of the …

Vijay Vck Dmk Tiruchy Thiruma

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Tiruchy Corporation's recycling drive in tatters

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: A woman's statue, holding buckets with segregated waste, in a vehicle announcing the importance of recycling is a sight that city residents would have hardly forgotten. Under the initiative, residents were encouraged to give various recyclable materials, including old clothes, to micro compost centres. Clothes collected through the initiative were meant to be used for making cloth bags and …

Cloth Bags Clothes Collected

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Town vending panel election in Tiruchy hits legal roadblock, put off

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: The long-pending election to the town vending committee, originally scheduled for November 22, has been deferred yet again due to legal challenges. A section of vendors have approached the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, alleging irregularities in the city corporation's vendor list, forcing the civic body to defer the election. For instance, there have been cases where …

Election Vendor

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Depression in Bay of Bengal, red alert issued for TN delta districts

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: A well-marked low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean intensified into a depression on Monday. The Regional Meteorological Centre has issued a red alert for delta districts of Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur, and Karaikal in Puducherry on Tuesday with extremely heavy rainfall forecast, and for Cuddalore, Mayiladuthurai, and Karaikal districts on Wednesday. An orange alert …

Districts Heavy Rain Puducherry

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Heavy rains lash across Tamil Nadu's coastal delta; normalcy affected

New Indian Express

NAGAPATTINAM: Heavy to moderate rains poured across delta districts on Tuesday. The downpours were severe in coastal delta districts where the Red Alert was issued by the meteorological department. The rainfall is heavy in coastal districts like Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur and Karaikal and moderate in Pudukkottai, Thanjavur and Tiruchy on Tuesday. The Regional Meteorological Center of the Indian Meteorological Department …

Districts Karaikal Tiruchy Thanjavur Mayiladuthurai Nagapattinam Tiruvarur

1 month ago

Minutes before cremation, ‘dead’ woman wakes up

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: A 60-year-old woman who was presumed dead woke up at the cremation ground on Monday just moments before her last rites were to be performed. P Chinnammal of Surakkaipatti near Marungapuri reportedly consumed pesticide on November 16, said sources. Later in the day, believing she had died, her relatives prepared for her funeral and brought her to the cremation …

Her Relatives

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Civic body mulls drive to ensure 100 per cent waste segregation in Tiruchy

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: With the QR code system for monitoring waste collection in households facing inordinate delays in its implementation, the corporation is exploring options to raise awareness among residents and sanitation workers alike so as to ensure 100% segregation of waste at source. Another official said plans are on to ensure sanitation workers reach households well before office hours so as …

Waste Sanitation Workers

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Civic facilities likely to come up on 40 acres reclaimed from dumping yard in Tiruchy

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: The Tiruchy corporation has ambitious plans for a part of land recovered from the municipal dump yard at Ariyamangalam after removing accumulated waste. Senior corporation officials said they are now considering several civic projects on the recovered land. We will not use the entire vacant land for one project; we are considering multiple projects like building commercial buildings, school, …

Land Projects Corporation Tiruchy Recovered

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ward offices: Tiruchy corporation revises target, 30 to be ready by March ’25

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: The monsoon is creating challenges for the speedy completion of the ward office or multi-purpose office in all the 65 wards in Tiruchy city. Senior corporation officials said efforts are on to identify space for the remaining ward offices. The location of all the 65 multi-purpose offices will be finalised this month itself,” a senior corporation engineer said. “Since …

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3 months ago

Teen’s death: Lab report finds no toxic substance in Korean noodles

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: The samples of the noodles of a Korean brand, lifted for testing following suspicions that its consumption led to the death of a teenage girl in Tiruchy early this month, contained no trace of toxic substances, officials from the food safety and drugs administration department said. Following the girl’s death, food safety department officials seized about 800 kg of …

Food Safety Tiruchy

3 months, 1 week ago

Thirumavalavan rebuts Anbumani’s remark on VCK fight against liquor

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Chidambaram MP and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi chief Thol Thirumavalavan on Sunday responded to PMK leader’s deprecating remark the former party doesn’t have the political standing to fight for alcohol prohibition. “Even if we are in the LKG, it is enough if people understand that we are acting with a social responsibility,” said Thirumavalavan in Tiruchy when he was asked …

Social Responsibility Drug Abuse Vck Dmk Tiruchy Thirumavalavan Pmk

3 months, 1 week ago

Phase IV of UGD project commences, to cover eight Tiruchy wards left out in 2019

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Minister for Municipal Administration KN Nehru, in the presence of Tiruchy Mayor Mu Anbalagan and other senior corporation officials, performed on Friday the 'bhoomi puja' for Phase IV works of the underground drainage system and the 24x7 water supply project in the city. As for the 24x7 water supply project, work has commenced in Wards 51 to 56. Our …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Tribal kids wait for 1 hour daily for school to open in Tiruchy

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: For tribal students from remote villages under Sobanapuram panchayat of the district, commuting to school is a daily challenge. Over 70 students travel about eight kilometres to attend the government high school in Sobanapuram, with some cycling, others relying on parents for lifts, and more than 40 depending on a single government bus that runs twice a day. The …

School Tiruchy

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Traffic curbs sought on NH before Kattur college after student badly injured in accident

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Students have called for regulating traffic before a Kattur-based college after one of their peers was injured in a road accident earlier this week. Sources say approximately 2,000 students attend the college, while another 2,000 attend the adjacent Adi Dravidar boys and girls higher secondary school. "The area lacks proper traffic management, with vehicles travelling in the wrong direction …

Traffic College Students Sanjay Kattur

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Tiruchy Corporation's office expansion plan faces delay amid opposition

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: The ambitious plan of the city corporation to expand its main office by constructing a new building is caught in red tape due to growing opposition from villagers on the city outskirts. The proposal, which was first discussed in March 2022 during the current council's inaugural meeting, aimed to address the increase in administrative needs following the proposed extension …

Delay Amid

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu minister Anbil Mahesh dares governor to check state's quality of education

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: In a rebuttal to Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi’s claim that the state’s school syllabus was uncompetitive and below par, school education minister Anbil Mahesh challenged the governor to engage with students preparing for competitive exams in state syllabus to understand the reality. Governor Ravi had earlier sparked a controversy by giving a thumbs-down to on Tamil Nadu’s …

Tamil Nadu Tamil State Minister Ravi Nadu Governor

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tiruchy government school students pen letters to parents, asking to quit alcohol, tobacco

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: In a heartwarming initiative, students of the government high school at Samudrathottam in Manapparai encouraged their parents to confront the dangers of alcohol and tobacco addiction through personal letters. As part of the campaign, the students penned letters to their parents, detailing the impact of their addictions on family life. "When we started receiving inland letters from the post …

Parents Letter

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Sivaganga MP Karti Chidambaram says Tiruchy does not need Metro, sparks row

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Congress’s Sivaganga MP Karti Chidambaram’s reply to a social media post, based on a TNIE report on the Tiruchy Metro project, has put several party leaders and others in the INDIA bloc in a spot. A TNIE report that appeared in these columns in the edition dated August 29, 2024, brought out details of the status of the plan …

Congress Project Metro Tiruchy Sivaganga Karti Chidambaram Mp Karti Chidambaram

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Panel to hold inquiry into pregnant woman’s death in Tamil Nadu

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: The family welfare department on Thursday formed a three member committee to conduct a departmental inquiry into the death of a 34-year-old woman who died after taking abortion pills, allegedly without doctor’s advice, to terminate the pregnancy of her fifth child in Tiruchy recently. The health department encourages only two children, and the couple should have been counselled on …

Department Woman Tiruchy

4 months ago

Tiruchy MGMGH heeds medicos’ demands, boosts security measures

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: In the wake of the devastating Kolkata rape-murder case, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital has taken steps to bolster safety in campus for its women students and doctors. Heeding to students’ demands, the hospital administration designated separate rooms for men and women in four floors at the new GH building as resting areas for both PG students and …

Heeds Medicos Mgmgh Heeds Medicos Demands Medicos Demands

4 months, 3 weeks ago

1.6L cusecs released from Mukkombu, Tiruchy on alert

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: With the quantum of discharge from the Mettur dam increased to 1.75 lakh cusecs on Thursday evening, the excess water at the Mukkombu barrage in Tiruchy has been released into the Kollidam and Cauvery rivers at a rate of 98,120 cusecs and 34,611 cusecs respectively. With the inflow expected to rise by another 40,000 cusecs by night, excess water …

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Road users in Tiruchy call out ‘blatant’ violations by school vehicles

Stormwater pools in Tiruchy junction station subway, poor renovation blamed

Dhobi Ghat impractical, say laundry workers in Tamil Nadu's Srirangam

Opponents using book launch to create fissures in DMK bloc: Thiruma

Tiruchy Corporation's recycling drive in tatters

Town vending panel election in Tiruchy hits legal roadblock, put off

Depression in Bay of Bengal, red alert issued for TN delta districts

Heavy rains lash across Tamil Nadu's coastal delta; normalcy affected

Minutes before cremation, ‘dead’ woman wakes up

Civic body mulls drive to ensure 100 per cent waste segregation in Tiruchy

Civic facilities likely to come up on 40 acres reclaimed from dumping yard in Tiruchy

Ward offices: Tiruchy corporation revises target, 30 to be ready by March ’25

Teen’s death: Lab report finds no toxic substance in Korean noodles

Thirumavalavan rebuts Anbumani’s remark on VCK fight against liquor

Phase IV of UGD project commences, to cover eight Tiruchy wards left out in 2019

Tribal kids wait for 1 hour daily for school to open in Tiruchy

Traffic curbs sought on NH before Kattur college after student badly injured in accident

Tiruchy Corporation's office expansion plan faces delay amid opposition

Tamil Nadu minister Anbil Mahesh dares governor to check state's quality of education

Tiruchy government school students pen letters to parents, asking to quit alcohol, tobacco

Sivaganga MP Karti Chidambaram says Tiruchy does not need Metro, sparks row

Panel to hold inquiry into pregnant woman’s death in Tamil Nadu

Tiruchy MGMGH heeds medicos’ demands, boosts security measures

1.6L cusecs released from Mukkombu, Tiruchy on alert