Month: May 2020

Trichy: With Trichy city completing 26 years as a municipal corporation on June 1, calls to observe the day as Trichy Day have been getting louder. Residents feel that such a step will instil “Trichy spirit” in them and also prompt those who migrated to other parts of the world to contribute to the city’s […]

Trichy: Trichy has handled over 2,500 Tamils and migrant labourers who have returned from other states on buses, trains and flights till Saturday. On Saturday, 26 passengers who came from Maharashtra were quarantined at the government engineering college at Sethurapatti in Trichy till their Covid-19 results come out. According to the data released by collector […]

Trichy: A Trichy-based farmers’ association has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) before the Madurai bench of Madras high court seeking the opening of Kallikudi integrated vegetable market that remains closed for the past two years since its inauguration. The association, which bats for the closure of the century-old Gandhi market causing traffic congestion in […]

Trichy: The Trichy Corporation on Saturday launched a three-day long kabasura kudineer and multi-vitamin tablets distribution drive to residents in vulnerable locations to boost their immunity from Covid-19 infection. Sanitary officials said the locations were identified based on their proximity to the containment zones. Alwarthope in ward 19 of Ariyamangalam zone, one of the hotspots […]

TIRUCHI The Southern Railway will operate three special trains via and from Tiruchi from June 1: Train No. 02083/02084 Coimbatore- Mayiladuthurai – Coimbatore Janshatabdi special will run except Tuesdays. The train will leave Coimbatore at 7.10 a.m. and reach Mayiladuthurai at 1.40 p.m. In the return direction, it will leave Mayiladuthurai at 2.50 p.m. and […]

TIRUCHI Twenty patients from the central region tested positive for COVID-19 in the central region on Saturday as per the State Health Department bulletin. Of them, seven hailed from Tiruchi, four from Tiruvarur, five from Nagapattinam, two from Thanjavur and one each from Karur and Perambalur districts. In Tiruchi, five of the seven patients had […]

TIRUCHI Gearing up to face any eventuality in the wake of increasing COVID-19 cases, the State government has decided to provide oxygen supply to all beds in the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital in Tiruchi. The hospital attached to the K.A.P. Viswanatham Medical College serves patients from Tiruchi, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Karur and Pudukottai districts and […]

TRICHY: Southern Railway will be operating two special trains via Trichy from June 1 while another special train will originate and terminate here. No 02084 Coimbatore to Mayiladuturai special train will leave Coimbatore at 7.10am and reach Mayiladuturai Junction via Trichy junction at 1.40pm. No 02083 Mayiladuturai – Coimbatore special train will leave Mayiladuturai at […]

Trichy: A young couple was booked by Trichy city police in the late hours of Thursday for not cooperating with health department officials for Covid-19 testing on their arrival at the Trichy airport from Bengaluru . Airport police registered a case against S Mugunda Raj and his wife Suhasini, both 34, of Kumbakonam on charges […]