Новости за 11.01.2021

BJP and Congress are scrambling to shortlist candidates for bypolls to the Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency and Basavakalyan and Maski assembly segments. The elections are likely to be held in late February or early March, and it will be another high-voltage clash after the recent Sira and RR Nagar contests.

Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan hit out at the state government for removing flags and display boards of the party in Coimbatore.​

An eight-year-old girl and a 62-year-old woman died after a wall of a house collapsed and fell on them at Nerlagiri village near Veppanahalli in Krishnagiri district on Sunday. About 20 people were injured in the incident and admitted to a hospital.

Vellamadai village panchayat vice-president R Ganeshan and his younger brother R Muruganandam were arrested on Sunday for murdering a 25-year-old man last Monday.

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) leader Premalatha came out in defence of DMK MP Kanimozhi, who was stopped by police in a bid to prevent her from reaching Pollachi on Sunday to lead a protest against AIADMK.

A study conducted by The Nature and Butterfly Society (TNBS) has identified the Siruvani hills, which falls within the limits of Boluvampatti forest range of the Coimbatore forest division, as a butterfly super-hotspot.

The process of turning wet wastes into compost will no longer be laborious and time-consuming.

The rural police on Sunday arrested six men who were involved in the Rs 27-lakh highway robbery near Navakkarai on December 25. The arrested were identified as K Unnikumar alias Raju, 44, from Pillaiyarpuram in Podanur, C Srijith, 27, M Subin, 29 from Thrissur, C Santhosh, 36, S Sandeep, 32 and C Radhakrishnan, 47, who hailed from Palakkad district in Kerala. Police recovered Rs 5 lakh from them.

The Kangeyam all women police arrested a homeopathy doctor for sexually assaulting a Class IX girl over the last four months.

AIADMK is making a concerted effort to protect the accused in the sensational Pollachi sex scandal case, DMK women’s wing chief M K Kanimozhi said on Sunday.