Steam loco for NMR arrives at Mettupalayam
The steam locomotive was dispatched by road from Tiruchi and reached Mettupalayam after nearly 10 days. A coal-fired steam locomotive, which was manufactured by the Golden Rock Railway Workshop in…
Electric loco run successful: Railways
Coimbatore, Sep 1 (PTI): A trial run of an AC electric locomotive was successfully conducted at the 41-km newly electrified Pollachi-Podanur junctions on Wednesday.The trial was held to check the…
Forest Department to radio collar Baahubali
The Forest Department has decided to radio collar a wild elephant nicknamed Baahubali, which makes regular presence in forests and human habitations around Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district during the migration…
Blood banks did not face shortage during pandemic
The four government blood banks received 10,925 units of blood from donors last year Blood banks in Coimbatore district did not face shortage during the first wave of the COVID-19…
Oxygen generator for GH, shelter for the destitutes at Mettupalayam
Forest Minister K. Ramachandran and Food Minister R. Sakkarapani on Thursday inaugurated an oxygen generator at the Government Hospital, Mettupalayam. A release issued by the district administration said that the…
Sonu Sood’s Foundation opens oxygen centre in Coimbatore
COIMBATORE: Bollywood actor Sonu Sood‘s charity organisation Sood Foundation and Swag ERT launched a rapid oxygen centre in Coimbatore on Sunday. The centre would provide free oxygen to the needy.…
Pandemic puts at stake survival of craft of handloom
Coimbatore: Fifty-year-old T Kumar and his wife K Saroja have been weaving handloom saris for the past 25 years. Though the income is limited, they stuck to the ancestral trade,…
Coimbatore district’s forest area is now larger by 1,049 hectares
The forest area in Coimbatore district has seen a significant increase after District Collector S. Nagarajan declared 1,049.74 hectares of land, as reserve land. With this, the size of the…
Mettupalayam MEMU services resume with low patronage
Coimbatore: Only about 30 passengers travelled by the train on its maiden journey from Mettupalayam to Coimbatore upon resumption of service after more than three weeks.The passenger patronage improved a…
Liquor seized
The Mettupalayam police on Thursday arrested two persons for transporting 320 bottles of liquor in a lorry. The arrested have been identified as K. Muniappan, the lorry driver, and C.…