Dindigul District

Madurai collector suspends quarry licence

Edit The Times of India 09 Jul 2016

The Madurai collector has temporarily suspended the license issued to the stone quarry at Kondayampatti village near Alanganallur following the accident in which three labourers were killed on Thursday ... Govt staff found dead ... College student commits suicide. An 18-year-old girl from Madurai city, studying in a private college in Dindigul, committed suicide by consuming poison....

Weed may dim hill Kodaikanal's shine

Edit The Times of India 09 Jul 2016

Dindigul. Residents of Kodaikanal complain that sale of ganja is on the increase in the hill station. With police turning a blind eye in controlling the sales, tourists get easy access to the contraband. People who rely on tourists for their income express fear that the unabated ganja sales may take its toll on tourist inflow. They also fear that it may bring a bad reputation to the preferred tourist place of many in the state ... RELATED....

70-yr-old woman dies in fire accident

Edit The Times of India 08 Jul 2016

Coimbatore. A 70-year-old woman was burnt to death after a fire broke out at a scrap shop at Vellakoil in Tirupur district on Thursday. The woman is identified as K Ponnammal, she stayed at a nearby temple. She begged for a living and ate free lunch provided by the temple. Police said she often fought with her son and daughter-in-law ... Police officials said the shop belongs to Mariammal from Dindigul....

Suvidha trains to clear rush

Edit The Times of India 07 Jul 2016

Madurai ... The train will stop at Tambaram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Tirupadiripuliyur, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Trichy, Dindigul, Madurai, Virudhunagar, Sattur and Kovilpatti ... Running on chord line, the train will stop at Kovilpatti, Virudhunagar, Madurai, Dindigul, Trichy, Villupuram, Chengalpattu, Tambaram and Mambalam ... RELATED....

New dist collector takes charge

Edit The Times of India 07 Jul 2016

New district collector T N Hariharan took charge on Wednesday. He has vowed to reduce human-animal conflict in the Coimbatore region. In the past few days, many incidents of man-animal conflicts were reported, and more than five elephants have died in the region. Hariharan had served as the collector of Dindigul and Virudhunagar districts. School celebrates golden jubilee year ... Two injured in road mishap ... Thirukkural elocution contest....

The Indian Amazon

Edit The Times of India 07 Jul 2016

Ditch South America. There is an evergreen forest, with trees that rise to 60 feet, in your own backyard. Temples, backwaters, endless paddy fields and golden beaches that stretch for miles ... It is the only little patch of shola left on the flanks of the Kukkal plateau, an hour long idyllic drive to the west of Kodaikanal and the Kukkal village in the Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu, from where it gets its name ... Albeit a living one....

Private college student dies of drug overdose

Edit The Times of India 06 Jul 2016

Madurai. A 20-year-old college student from the city, who was allegedly addicted to drugs, died due to a drug overdose. Police said the student, Dinesh Babu, had injected himself with a drug and died after developing health complications ... Police have launched an investigation to identify the substance used by the youth who was pursuing his first-year undergraduation at a private college in Dindigul ... RELATED. From around the web....

In search of liquid gold

Edit Deccan Herald 06 Jul 2016

Human milk banks. Megha Johnson’s son weighed just 840 grams when he was born in the 28th week of her pregnancy. Being premature, the newborn had to be fed milk from a human milk bank. “I had water inside my breasts because of which I wasn’t able to feed my son ... Madurai, Dindigul and Theni, it set up its high-end hospital grade breast pumps such as ‘Symphony’ to help mothers express and store breast milk ... ....

Megalithic period rock paintings found near Palani

Edit The Times of India 06 Jul 2016

Madurai. Rock art pertaining to the Megalithic period were discovered by group of archaeologists in a hillock near Palani in Dindigul district; it depicts a funeral and a war scene. The discovery was made in the Kannanur hillock near Oddanchathiram at a height of about 900 metres above sea level. The team of archeologists include V Narayanamoorthy, professor Asokan, Manojkumar and Arumugam ... The cave is about seven feet in height ... RELATED....

Five highway robbers nabbed after hot chase

Edit The Hindu 05 Jul 2016

Madurai district police have arrested five highway robbers involved in two cases of looting goods from running trucks on Madurai-Dindigul highway ... Selvaraja of Kalladipatti near Pallapatti in Dindigul district, K ... Prabhu of Dindigul district ... When a truck carrying textile bundles was proceeding towards Dindigul from Madurai, a robber had managed to get on to the truck while it slowed down near Nagari at around 5 a.m....

Operation of trains disrupted

Edit The Hindu 05 Jul 2016

Operation of trains was disrupted for a few hours between Thamaraipadi and Dindigul section near here on Monday owing to a fracture on the newly laid second railway track....

Readers' Mail - Ramanathapuram

Edit The Hindu 05 Jul 2016

Raise berm level ... Of course, the riding surface of these two roads is made fit for traffic but the berms on either side are left untouched and they are now far below the present height of the road ... V. Karmegam,. Ramanathapuram ... Thamaraipadi is a village on National Highway 45, eight km from Dindigul ... Because of this, one has to either get down at Vadamadurai or go straight to Dindigul through Thamaraipadi and take a town bus to get back ... J....

‘108’ ambulance staff need amenities

Edit The Hindu 05 Jul 2016

Over 100 ‘108’ ambulance staff of Dindigul Government headquarters hospital, including 46 women, in the district have been facing untold misery while owing to lack of basic amenities at work places ... ....

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Ganja menace increase in Dindigul district, sold freely

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Prayer Rally - Dindigul District(Day 11) - 2016

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