Tuticorin, India News

CHENNAI: While it was encouraging to note increasing levels of condom use across all high risk groups, it was a cause for concern that HIV risk perception among students had come down, Principal Secretary, Health, V.K.Subburaj, said.

CHENNAI: Southern Railway on Saturday extended the following special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers during the festival season.

UP IN ARMS: Members of Tamil Nadu Postgraduate Teachers' Association staging a dharna in Tuticorin on Saturday.

Tuticorin: Karur Vysya Bank opened its 340th Automated Teller Machine centre at Infant Jesus Group of Engineering Colleges, Keelavallanadu here on Friday.

Tuticorin: All measures would be taken to make Tuticorin a plastic-free district since the plastic wastes such as polythene bags and disposable tumblers dumped all over the town would cause environmental degradation, said Collector G. Prakash here on Tuesday.

TIRUNELVELI: A total of 254 students, including 100 girls, took the All India Engineering Entrance Examination conducted every year by 'The Hindu Education Plus' and 'AIMS Education' at St.

Tuticorin: A. Sornamalathi, an eleventh standard student of Business Mathematics of Subbiah Vidyalayam Girls' Higher Secondary School, Tuticorin, won gold medal in under-16 high jump at the Annual Athletic Championship, 2009, held at Albert F. Peiris Stadium, Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka on November 26 and 27.

TIRUNELVELI: Thanks to the continuing intermittent drizzle in the Western Ghats, water level in the Manimuthar dam, the largest reservoir in the district, crossed 100 feet on Sunday against its maximum capacity of 118 feet.

Tuticorin: Cadres of the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam submitted a petition to Collector here on Monday alleging that industrial effluents on SIPCOT premises were posing a grave threat to the health of the people.

SPOT INSPECTION: Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin , during a visit to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tuticorin on Wednesday.

Tuticorin: Expressing concern over reported move to acquire 1,500 acres of land for the SIPCOT to promote setting up of industries, K. Krishnasamy, president of Puthiya Tamilagam, said here on Tuesday that the land was essential for Dalits, who depend on agriculture.

TIRUNELVELI: A holiday was declared for all schools in the district on Saturday also as widespread intermittent drizzle continued here and the level in the major irrigation dams has been increasing steadily.

KRISHNAGIRI: As part of its platinum jubilee celebrations, the Reserve Bank has decided to launch 'Model Village Programme" in eight villages in the State.

Wet spell: Tuticorin experienced heavy rain on Wednesday. Tuticorin: The district experienced widespread rains on Tuesday night.

HEALTHCARE: A doctor screening a boy at Government Medical College Hospital in Tuticorin on Friday.

MADURAI: The trial in a criminal case relating to a clash involving a group of lawyers, policemen, tourists and a masseur at Courtallam falls on July 26, 2007, has been transferred from the Chief Judicial Magistrate court at Tirunelveli to Madurai.

NEW DELHI: The International Federation of Journalists has expressed "deep concern" over the denial of visas to journalists from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to participate in a workshop on environmental journalism in Tuticorin.

FATED: The school van and the private bus which were involved in an accident near Palayamkottai on Thursday.

Business as usual: Traders selling vegetables under the cover of umbrellas at a market in Tuticorin on Thursday.

Tuticorin: A preliminary meeting was convened at the Collectorate here on Tuesday ahead of Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin's visit to Tuticorin on November 19 for inauguration of various developmental projects and distribution of financial assistance to beneficiaries through welfare schemes.