Coimbatore: Police arrested two men on Tuesday for throwing stone at a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Limited (TNSTC) town bus on NSR Road at Saibaba Colony in the city on Monday night.
The arrested men were identified as S Saddam Hussain, 24, and S Karthik, 22, both residents of KK Pudur at Saibaba Colony.
Saddam and Karthik, who were under the influence of alcohol and riding on a scooter on NSR Road, refused to give way for a TNSTC town bus (route no- 70B) heading towards Marudhamalai from Gandhipuram on Monday night. When the bus driver, V Ravikumar, 47, continuously used horn, the duo stopped their scooter in front of the bus and fought with the driver. Later, they pelted a stone at the rear windshield of the bus and fled from the scene.
Coimbatore: BJP leader H Raja on Tuesday said seat sharing talks with the AIADMK would commence at an appropriate time and the saffron party would get adequate number of seats it deserved.
Talking to reporters in the city, where he had come to inaugurate `Modi Camp’ that was organised by Kovai Makkal Sevai Mayyam to help public enrol for government welfare schemes, Raja said there was ample time left for the seat sharing talks, as election dates were yet to be announced.
Downplaying the DMDK’s displeasure over the delay in seat sharing talks, Raja said the same would be a smooth affair in the AIADMK alliance, as was the case during the Lok Sabha election. “Seat sharing would be finalized at the appropriate time.”
Udhagamandalam: The exercise of capturing the rogue elephant ‘Shankar’, which killed three people in Gudalur division of forests in the Nilgiris in December last, continued for the fourth day on Tuesday but in vain. A dart was sent aiming at the rogue elephant by the team comprising veterinarians and forest officials, but it missed as the jumbo kept running, according to a forest official.
“We were hopeful that the operation would succeed as the 40-year-old jumbo was located alone near Cherambadi in Pandalur range in Gudalur division. The herd of elephants which escorted the elephant in the past few days moved away from it”, said Vijayan, assistant conservator of forest, Gudalur division.
The Coimbatore Nature Society, which participated in the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC), has found a 60% drop in the number of migratory birds visiting .