With top IT destinations including Bangalore and Mumbai facing infrastructure problems, Coimbatore is slowly emerging as a preferred destination for leading information technology firms among second-rung cities.
Suryakumar Yadav (30) couldn't convert a start, Sarfaraz Khan (6) and Shreyas Iyer's (2) bids of spending quality time in the middle didn't fructify.
Can ordinary citizens counter this backward march? Can peace activists ensure that the two communities retain their bonds? Do they have a choice, asks Jyoti Punwani.
A top Maoist leader, wanted in at least 20 cases in Kerala, his wife and three others, were arrested on Monday night near Coimbatore in a "big breakthrough" for the police of four southern states.
The bench not only issued notices to the state government and its police authorities, but also stayed the coercive proceedings against Shankar.
In two years, the start-up Overqualified Housewives has helped over 6,000 women across India find flexible-job roles across India from salaries ranging between Rs 8,000 to Rs 80,000, making them financially independent.
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'If you do well, stay humble. If you don't do well, go back to the basics.'
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Tamil Nadu -- often dubbed as India's own Detroit due to its thriving automobile manufacturing ecosystem -- is in no mood to miss the EV bus either. Recent developments attest to it. Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast has promised a $2 billion plant in the southern state. And as promised earlier, the work on Tata Motors-JLR plant will kick off next week, on September 28, after the foundation stone laying ceremony.
Buoyed by the presence of a number of reputed engineering and technical educational institutions in and around the city and the availability of a vast talent pool, Tata Consultancy Services, is targeting Coimbatore.
Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw and Ajinkya Rahane flopped with the bat as defending champions Mumbai were shocked by Baroda by 84 runs.
Here are some of the famous faces queued up to get ink mark on their fingers.
The recent 'revelation' by TN fishers freed by Sri Lanka after they had paid up Lankan rupees 50,000 each in fines, that their hair was tonsured in prison and they were forced to remove their garments other than the underpants, and were also made to clean toilets, as if with vengeance, has touched a raw nerve this time, just as another issue or issues had done it ahead of the Jallikattu protests, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The prime ingredient in Nannari Sherbat is sarsaparilla syrup, made from a tropical root or vine,
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Erode MP A Ganeshamurthi, who allegedly attempted suicide recently, died at a Coimbatore hospital on Thursday morning, sources from his party Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the police said.
He was held in connection with the murder of a youth allegedly by Veerappan in 1998.
Annamalai has faced criticism for the breakup between the AIADMK and the BJP, but BJP leaders say 'he attracts youth, who needs change'.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
52 people were killed and 167 others were injured in the blasts that targeted the venue of senior BJP leader L K Advani's election campaign.
Suryakumar Yadav will turn up for Mumbai in their Buchi Babu match against TNCA XI, aiming to get his Test career back on track.
The chairman of the People's Democratic Party was exonerated of five charges, including criminal consipracy to trigger the blasts that killed 58 people, by the sessions court handling the blast case.
The Coimbatore-based beauty loves to go make-up free and it's impossible to not be fida over that gorgeous face.
Judge K Uthirapathy, taking up applications of 26 convicts, who were among the 158 proved guilty in the cases, granted bail to 15 on their personal surety.
Batting at No 4, Ishan Kishan smashed 111, hitting 14 fours and three sixes in his 126-ball knock to rally India C against India B.
The verdict in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts case will be pronounced on August 1.
After being on the run for 16 years, the key accused in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts was arrested from Mallapauram in Kerala on Thursday.
The new facility of Cognizant Technology Solutions, a leading global IT offshore services provider, at Coimbatore is set to go operational soon, a senior company official said.
The daily said the DMK president, in his address at the 'Mupperum Vizha' on June 15 in Coimbatore, "stood tall by dedicating the victory to the DMK cadres, workers of parties of the INDIA bloc and all the leaders" of the alliance parties.
The court, taking into account the report of medical experts filed by the Tamil Nadu, said that the accused had been repeatedly refusing to get examined for his ailments by expert ayurveda doctors and declining to take medicines.
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In searches carried out in the city earlier, the NIA had arrested two people -- Mohammed Azarudheen and Shiek Hidayathulla.
The mother of an infant dramatically rescued recently from the sunshade of an apartment in Chennai, died by suicide as she was 'deeply disturbed' by the criticism over her alleged negligence.
In Agartala, the Group A match between Mumbai and Tripura ended in a draw with the reigning champions earning three points by virtue of the first-innings lead.
The Madras High Court on Friday upheld the life sentence awarded to 18 Al-Umma activists and also the exoneration of People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani by a trial court in cases relating to the 1998 Coimbatore serial bomb blasts in which 52 people were killed and over 200 others injured.
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