COIMBATORE: A special court in Coimbatore on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for murdering his brother and the latter’s 16-year-old girlfriend in a 2019 ‘honour killing’ case. The court — set up for trying offences under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act — had last week found the man guilty of double murder. Terming it a “rarest …
Describing the murder of a 22-year-old man and his 16-year-old girlfriend belonging to a Scheduled Caste community near Mettupalayam in 2019 as a “rarest of rare” case, a Special Court in Coimbatore on Wednesday awarded a death sentence to the man’s elder brother for the caste killing. Judge K. Vivekananthan of the Special Court for the trial of cases registered …
A village administrative officer in Salem was attacked for complaining about gravel smuggling on Friday. On April 18, the VAO and officials from the Department of Geology and Mines, acting on a tip-off that a few persons were illegally taking gravel from a land owned by a man named Muthusamy at Thandavanur near Tholasampatti, rushed to the spot and seized …
A REMARKABLE visualisation technique that makes possible three-dimensional capture of biomolecules in atomic detail has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize-winning laureates’ discoveries over a span of four decades helped optimise “every nut and bolt” of the electron microscope, helping it re-emerge as an indispensable tool to study the molecules of life. Henderson, who works at the …
