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Representative image COIMBATORE: A seven-year-old boy drowned in a pond near Kasthuri Garden at Podanur on Saturday evening while trying to take a rubber ball that fell in it when he was playing with his friends. The Podanur police identified the deceased as R Surya, son of 30-year-old K Ramasamy, a mason from Kasthuri Garden at Pillaiyarpuram. Police said Ramasamy’s wife had eloped with another person two years ago and his parents were looking after his two children, including the boy. “When he returned from work on Saturday, his neighbours told him that his son had fallen in the nearby pond while trying to take the ball that fell into it and they had alerted the fire and rescue services personnel as his friends’ efforts to rescue him went in vain,” a police officer said. Meanwhile, fire fighters reached the spot, retrieved the boy’s body from the pond and sent it to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for postmortem. The Podanur police have regist ....
The Towns Mirror Special: Uncovering the story of Cox Town’s Sindhi Colony Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Feb 4, 2021, 06:00 IST Sindhis in East Bengaluru after the Partition Adiverse culture is what forms the face of a country. But what is the history behind so many small communities that have settled here? ReReeti, an organisation that works towards revitalising museums and heritage sites, will be documenting the origin all that is pertinent to the existence of Cox Town’s Sindhi community in Bengaluru. The Undivided Identities: Unknown Stories of Partition project aims to uncover how, during the Partition, non-Muslims from Sindh in Pakistan migrated and settled down in different states of India, including Bangalore (Mysore State), says Tejshvi Jain. The Sindhi Colony in Cox Town was created in 1948, to house the refugees from Sindh in Pakistan. The government - then the Mysore State, bought the land from a man named ....
Representative image COIMBATORE: A 50-year-old man was arrested at Gomangalam on Sunday for illegally storing fertilizer that is provided by the government to the farmers at subsidised price. The Gomangalam police identified the accused as B Mummoorthy, of Alagappa Street at Jothi Nagar in Pollachi. He was nabbed during a vehicle check on Pollachi-Udumalpet road. A police officer said the Pollachi agriculture officer, Thulasimani, had seized 905 fertilizer bags meant for distribution under the state government subsidy scheme from a godown at Kedimedu village near Gomangalam on January 18, along with a truck that was used to smuggle the same. “The officer lodged a police complaint and preliminary investigation revealed the godown owner Ramasamy, along with Mummoorthy and Santhosh, was involved in smuggling fertilizers. They had gone into hiding,” the officer said. ....
GEORGE TOWN: No devotees will be allowed to visit the Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Hilltop Temple and Nattukotai Chettiar Temple at Waterfall Road during Thaipusam. ....