Coimbatore: Vaccination of frontline workers against Covid-19 will begin on Wednesday. Already, 21,274 workers have registered to receive the shot and they could choose any of the 22 vaccination sites in the district. While 12 sites are within the city corporation limits, the remaining 10 are spread across rural parts of the district. All the beneficiaries have to produce three identity cards - Aadhar card, government employee id card and pan card or driving licence or voter id.
Of the 21,274, workers, 10,421 are from urban and housing affairs, 9,849 from home affairs and 1,004 from the revenue department. “We first invite police, revenue, local body, panchayat and ICDS department staff to get vaccinated,” said Dr G Ramesh Kumar, deputy director of public health. While police constitute majority of the 9,849 home affairs staff, 6,600 city corporation staff have also registered for vaccination.
Coimbatore: A team of archaeological enthusiasts from Tirupur have found two 13th century and one 17th century hero stones at Vinnamppallai village near Pujaippulliyampatti-Sathiyamangalam highways in Erode district.
The exploration was done by a team comprising S Ravikumar, K saravanakumar, C M Rameshkumar and K Ponnusamy, all members of Virarajendran Archaeological and Historical Research Centre in Tirupur.
The team found the hero stones on December 2 and they were installed at the same location for public worship on January 25 after obtaining permission from various authorities, including the village administrative office and panchayat president.
Ravikumar, director of the research centre, said two of the hero stones were unique. “While most of the hero stones that have so far found in the state depict fight between a warrior and tiger, one of the stones that we have found depicts a fighting scene between two tigers and a warrior. While the hero attacks a tiger with a swor
COIMBATORE: A 20-year-old man has been arrested for marrying a 17-year-old girl and raping her.
Police identified the accused as C Velmurugan, a native of Thoothukudi district. He was employed with a private travels firm at Gandhipuram in the city.
A police officer said Velmurugan had befriended the girl in February 2020, when he arranged a vehicle for her family to attend the Maha Shivratri function. “They exchanged their mobile phone numbers and became close friends. They subsequently fell in love and eloped and got married in a temple two weeks ago.”
The girl’s parents lodged a complaint with the city police, who registered a girl missing case and traced her to Thoothukudi. Police rescued her on Monday morning and brought her, along with Velmurugan, to the east all-woman police station, where police inspector Amutha held an inquiry with them.
Coimbatore: Filled with potholes, FCI Road at Ganapathy in the city has become a nightmare for the two-wheelers and light vehicle users.
Residents and the area MLA, N Karthik, said they had made several representations to various government agencies to relay the road over the past two years, but to no avail. On Tuesday, they staged a protest, demanding authorities to repair the road at the earliest.
Sathish, a resident of Jain Apartments, said, “The road is full of potholes and someone skids or falls daily while negotiating the turnings. Elderly two-wheeler riders and light vehicle users develop severe back pain as a result of travelling through the bumpy road daily.”
A man pastes a poster praising Sasikala on a wall in Coimbatore on Sunday
COIMBATORE: AIADMK functionaries have put up posters in the rural parts of the district welcoming the ousted party leader V K Sasikala after her release from the prison.
Similar posters had earlier surfaced in Trichy, Tirunelveli and Theni. Now, posters have come up in Annur town in Coimbatore and Villupuram welcoming Sasikala.
Annur south union women’s wing secretary R Sakunthala and former district panchayat councillor C Rangasamy, who put up the posters welcoming Sasikala as ‘Kazhaga Pothu Seyalalar (permanent general secretary) Thyaga Thaiavi Chinnamma’ across Annur, defended their act stating Sasikala was indeed an ‘embodiment of sacrifice.’ “She has been with Amma (Jaya) through ups and downs for 30 years,” they said.