Banks should clear the backlog in disbursal of education loans by August end, said Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam. Presiding over the review meeting on bank loans and water supply schemes here on Tuesday, the Minister said that in the last four years, banks had disbursed education loans to 31,503 students to a tune of [...]
Two women were killed and five others were injured when a private bus from Bangalore hit a lorry parked on the National Highway near Salem on Sunday night. The bus was proceeding to Kottayam. While nearing the Arabic College on the Salem Corporation border around 11.50 pm, the driver rammed the bus against a stationary [...]
In spite of the death of a patient and over 50 others suffering due to suspected cholera, sanitary conditions and drinking water quality continue to be in a very poor quality, the people of Muthampatti, a village in Salem district, complained to the Collector (incharge) Kalaiarasi on Monday. The people alleged that the 30,000litre capacity [...]
BSNL, Salem has introduced a new tariff option for CDMA prepaid General, Life Time and RUIM Plans. A press release from BSNL says that Plan I (one paise per second) charges include service tax for Rs. 42 with a validity period of 365 days and Plan II (49 paise per minute) charges include service tax [...]
Late night commuters and other travelling public from Salem who wished to return to their villages in Salem, Namakkal and Dharmapuri districts were in for a shock when authorities concerned operated either skeleton services or no buses in many routes on Thursday night, forcing them to resort to agitations inside the New Bus stand here. [...]
A group of devotees sang bhajans on Friday protesting against the garden of Sri Sugavaneshwarar Temple being converted into a shopping complex. votees resorted to a novel but symbolical protest by submitting a petition to God himself with a request to “save the sprawling temple ‘Nandavanam’ (Temple Garden) of the ancient Sri Sugavaneshwara Swamy temple [...]
Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency has conducted a Business Meet on ‘Deployment of Biomas Thermal Gasifier System’ in textiles units and jaggery manufacturing units towards meeting thermal requirements at Sago Serve, Salem on Thursday. Source: THE HINDU
The Kondalampatti Trumpet Interchange, which intersects Nh47 with NH7 is open to traffic now. The construction which was happening for several months is finally over and the vechiles now using the flyover. This massive Interchange will be one of the biggest Grade Separators in TN of its kind. With this works, Vehicles from Salem will [...]
The Tamil Nadu government has approved uniform guidelines or Development Control Regulations relating to special buildings, multi-storeyed buildings, group developments, layouts and sub-divisions. According to the state government release these regulations are to be implemented in planning areas including Trichy, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Salem, Erode, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Vellore and sub-urban areas falling in Kancheepuram and [...]
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