Pollachi, India News

Chennai, Dec. 24: Two policemen who delayed an accident victim's post-mortem, preventing his eyes from being donated, will have to cough up Rs 40,000 in compensation for human rights violation.

COIMBATORE: The 69th National Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India will be held here from December 25 to 30.

Coimbatore: The Nallamuthu Gounder Mahalingam College, Pollachi, is organising a campus interview for the post of Medical Transcriptionists today.

Designs on Coimbatore PANKAJA SRINIVASAN CII Coimbatore Zone brought celebrity designer Prasad Bidapa and high fashion to the city.

In discussion: Rural Industries Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy , who is the Chairman of the Accommodation Committee for the World Classical Tamil Conference, discussing the arrangements for the conference at a meeting at the Coimbatore Collectorate.

Kochi: The Coir Board and the State government are taking steps to deal with the shortage of coconut husk.

The government has envisaged Rs 19 crore for the establishment and modernisation of existing defibering units for the coir sector in the State and the average minimum wage of coir workers of the Malabar region would be increased to Rs 100 within January, said Minister of Coir and Cooperative G Sudhakaran.

Pollachi: Dubbing the waiver of cooperative farm loans as a deceptive, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam General Secretary, Vaiko said that non-refund of the waiver amount by the State Government to the cooperative societies have crippled these societies financially.

Coimbatore: BSNL is conducting the Internet EVDO data card mela at the customer service centres/Telephone exchanges at Ganapathy, Ram Nagar, Peelamedu, Kurichi, Periyanaickenpalayam, Kovaipudur, Selvapuram, Saravanampatti, Mettupalayam, Udumalpet, Pollachi, Tirupur and PGM office.

Coimbatore: Elaborate security arrangements have been planned in view of the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary and would be put in place by Thursday midnight in Coimbatore City and in eight districts across the West Zone.

Commendable job: Water flow in the contour canal of Parambikulam Aliyar Project was restored on Wednesday.

Owing to delay in completion of underground drainage and haphazard closing of pits dug for this project - Photo: G. Karthikeyan.

CHENNAI: The Left parties will jointly campaign for the AIADMK in Tiruchendur and Vandavasi Assembly constituencies, according to CPI State secretary N. Varadarajan.

Coimbatore is a well irrigated district, known for paddy, sugarcane and groundnut, but now is gradually shifting to cocoa.

ALAPPUZHA: Coir and Cooperation Minister G. Sudhakaran has written to Tamil Nadu Rural Industries Minister Pongalur N. Palanisami on Tuesday, seeking his intervention to ensure the smooth and uninterrupted supply of coir fibre to Kerala from Tamil Nadu.

COIMBATORE: Ambulances of the Emergency Management Research Institute in Coimbatore District has handled more than 10,000 cases so far.

CHENNAI: Major railway projects in the State have almost come to a standstill as the Southern Railway has utilised most of the allocations that were made for the current financial year.

In Full flow: A view of Aliyar Dam that got filled up following heavy rain in the Parambikulam Aliyar catchment on Monday.

Whiz kids: Nandini Rangasamy, Managing Director, Chandra Group of Companies, handing over a trophy to the winners of the TCS IT Wiz Quiz Akash Lodha and Hirent Barai of St.

The contour canal that supplies water to the Thirumurthy dam suffered a breach near Aliyar on Saturday following heavy rain.