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TIRUPPUR: The city municipal corporation officials started investigating an incident where two people were allegedly bittenby a Rottweiler outside a Tasmac bar on Monday. Sources said, “A person residing near Kongu main road visits the Tasmac shop regularly allegedly with his pet Rottweiler. When some stray dogs gathered there and started barking at it, the dog allegedly broke loose from …

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Lack of motorable road in remote hamlet in Tiruppur district forces family to carry pregnant woman 7 km to hospital

In the absence of a motorable road, a pregnant woman in labour, was carried on a makeshift stretcher fastened to bamboo poles by her husband and relatives, down to the plains, from a remote hamlet in the hilly terrains near Udumalpet, in a grueling 7 km forest trek that took several hours, on Monday, April 8, 2024. The woman, Nagammal …

Having made progress in the work on road construction along Noyyal river embankments under its Smart City Mission, the Tiruppur Corporation has begun hosting meetings of stakeholders for riverfront beautification. “In the first phase, 13 locations have been identified in a 1.2-km stretch on the northern embankment for walkways, landscaping, traffic islands, fountains and other beautification activities,” the Corporation Commissioner …

Residents in Kallipalayam along Palladam-Dharapuram Road are learnt to have expressed apprehensions to the Forest Department over purported presence of a leopard, nearly a week after a wild cat movement was reported in Pongalur and Ugayanur. The Forest Department could surmise from the observations of residents where the predators are believed to be frequenting that the leopards live largely unnoticed …

N. Dineshkumar of the DMK, who was elected as the third mayor of the Tiruppur Corporation on Friday, said he would work towards making Tiruppur “pioneering” and “self-sufficient” among the 21 Corporations in the State. Mr. Dineshkumar was elected unopposed by the councillors, in the indirect elections held at the Council Hall of Corporation headquarters on Mangalam Road. Speaking to …

Sulur constituency, which also includes parts of Tiruppur district such as Samalapuram, is electing its fourth MLA this time. Though two major highways namely Salem-Kochi highway and Tiruchi Road pass through the constituency, people feel that many areas in the constituency require development. According to C. Palanisamy, president of Coimbatore and Tiruppur District Job Working Powerloom Unit Owners’ Association, “nearly …