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TIRUNELVELI: A 22-year-old law student was stabbed to death near a school in Cheranmahadevi here on Friday morning. Sources said, the deceased C Manikandan of Keel Nadutheru in Cheranmahadevi was a third-year law student at a private college in Chennai. Sources further said, he was intercepted by S Mayandi of Lal Bahadur Shastri Street near a government-aided school. Passers-by and …

TIRUNELVELI: Alleging that the corporation has been taking decisions favouring a private company that handles sanitation works, DMK Tirunelveli corporation councillor V Paulraj, who was suspended from the party's primary membership, staged a protest during the grievance redressal meeting chaired by Mayor G Ramakrishnan here on Tuesday. Paulraj claimed that the corporation, which had previously spent around Rs 1.2 crore …

Tirunelveli cops advise private bus crew not to play caste-related songs

TIRUNELVELI: The Tirunelveli city police convened a meeting with private bus conductors and drivers here on Friday, instructing them against playing caste-related film songs and locally-composed caste songs in the buses, and report the issues among student passengers to the police. The moves comes in the wake of the increasing number of caste clashes among government school students within the …

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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government declared a holiday for all schools, colleges, private institutions, banks and financial institutions in Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari and Tenkasi districts on Monday due to heavy rainfall. As per IMD predictions, heavy rain is likely to occur at one or two places over Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Ramanathapuram, Pudukottai and Thanjavur districts of Tamil Nadu on December …

TIRUNELVELI: A 55-year-old man, who was admitted to a private hospital in the district after the plastering of a two-tier bridge fell on his head on May 3, died on Thursday. Sources said the deceased, A Velmurugan of Kokkirakulam, was riding his two-wheeler to purchase milk under the two-tier bridge of the city. Even though the city police registered a …

Tension prevailed in Shankar Nagar on the outskirts of Tirunelveli city after two suspected ‘pipe bombs’ were recovered from the premises of a private cement factory around Tuesday midnight. Sources in the police said a few hundred permanent employees and over a thousand contract labourers were working in a private cement factory in Shankar Nagar on the city outskirts, which …

Former Minister and incumbent DMK MLA from Alangulam Poongothai Aladi Aruna was admitted to a private hospital in Tirunelveli in an “unconscious state” on Thursday morning. In a health bulletin issued in the afternoon, Shifa Hospitals medical director Mohamed Arafath said Dr. Poongothai, who was admitted in unconscious state, “remains awake, responsive and her vital parameters are satisfactory”. Sources in …

Hari Singh, the owner of 'Iruttu Kadai', renowned halwa shop in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli reportedly died by suicide on Thursday morning. Quoting a senior police official, the national daily reported that Hari Singh killed hung himself from a window using a sheet. Management of the private nursing home in Palayamkottai where Singh sought treatment was looking to move him to …

Tirunelveli: Relatives of a college student found dead under mysterious circumstances in a private lodge in Courtallam here, suspect that the boy was murdered and refused to receive the body. Registering the case as one of mysterious death, based on the complaint of the private lodge authorities, police sent the body to Tenkasi general hospital, where autopsy was performed. Karthik …