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Morning walker hacked to death at Avinashi near Tiruppur

A 45-year-old man was hacked to death by a gang while on his morning walk at Avinashi in Tiruppur district on Sunday. According to police, S. Ramesh, an automobile consultant from Kasigoundenpudur in Velayuthampalayam panchayat at Avinashi, was out for a walk on the service road of the Salem-Kochi highway at around 6.30 a.m. when a group of unidentified men …

An elderly couple and their son were found murdered inside their farmhouse at Palladam in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, on Friday morning, police officers aware of the matter said on Friday. The three bodies were first spotted by a local barber on Friday morning. “Five special teams have been constituted to probe all the angles in connection with the triple murder,” …

Friday Morning

TIRUPPUR: A 70-year-old woman living alone was killed and 15 sovereigns of gold jewels were looted, at Karanampet in Palladam of the district on Saturday. Police sources said, “Kannammal was a widower living alone. Kannammal lived on the first floor of the building.” “On Saturday morning, she did not come out of her house for long. Investigation revealed that 15 …

On a brisk morning at Dr Nanjappa School campus in Tiruppur, the playground is buzzing. “Our club’s speciality is that the minimum age of any member is 60,” laughs V G Ravichandran, vice president and one of the founding members of the club which has completed 40 years. It’s a get together akin to England’s Hyde Park where we engage …

Birdwatchers recently spotted a red-necked phalarope, a migratory bird that breeds in the Arctic region, at Uppar dam in Dharapuram, making it the first possible sighting of the bird in Tiruppur district. Member of the Dharapuram Nature Society R. Magesh said on Monday that he and another member Sadhasivam Dhamu visited the Uppar dam on Saturday morning for birdwatching, when …