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April 23, 2014 13:21:23 IST
Desolation sweeps in, wave after wave
Ten-month-old Daniel is too young to be fighting the ferocious waves of the Arabian Sea. But around midnight on Wednesday, the toddler was woken up rudely from his baby sleep by huge waves that barged into the ramshackle hut his family calls home, ...One Pilgrim Killed, 9 Hurt in Mishap
A woman pilgrim was killed and nine others injured when a vehicle carrying Velankanni pilgrims turned turtle after losing control at Kaliyanagar near Ramanathapuram in Madurai district. All the pilgrims were from Anapara near Vithura here and were ...Keralite killed in Tamil Nadu
RAMANATHAPURAM: A Keralite was killed in an accident in Tamil Nadu. The dead has been identified as Baby of Aanappara. The incident happened when a team of devotees including Baby was proceeding to Velankanni from Vithura in theSlain soldier laid to rest with military honours
The funeral of (31), who was killed in a fidayeen attack in Jammu on Friday, took place at his native place at Mugaiyur in Thirukkoilur block with full military honours on Saturday. The military personnel of the 25th Punjab Regiment, led by second ...TN jawan killed in J&K gunfight laid to rest
VILLUPURAM: Paulin Nirmal was eagerly waiting for her husband, Lance Naik Anthony Nirmal Vijay, to come home this May as he had promised to take her and their two children, aged 5 and 3, to Kanyakumari on a vacation. But what came home was his body.On The Road
Thomas accessibility is his strength It is a ritual that they have been doing before every general election for the past 30 years. A few days ago, Union Minister and Ernakulam MP K V Thomas and his wife, Sherly, took a train to Velankanni, where ...Six bronze idols discovered underwater in Velankanni
Six bronze idols were found under water here in Kaduvayar in Mahadanam panchayat in Velankanni on Friday. The idols along with two boxes made of iron were found underwater in Kalasambadi village by two inland fisherwomen on Friday evening. The two women, were ...Triangular Clash between DMK, ADMK, CPI at Nagai
It will be essentially a triangular contest between the two major Dravidin parties and CPI in the coastal constituency of Nagapattinam. The present Nagapattinam constituency has six assembly segments including Nagapattinam, Kilvelur (SC) and ...Poll express skips railway stop, coastal line waits for gravy train
Recently released party manifestos are largely silent on the railway needs of the state. Among the projects planned - some sanctioned but without funds and others still on the drawing boards - is a coastal line that will connect Chennai and ...I am...Maggy Simon, Staff Nurse
I grew up in Pavaratty, a village near Thrissur. From my childhood, I wanted to be a nun. I don't know why I felt that way, but I wanted to serve people. Sadly, that dream got crushed. So, I did the next best thing. I studied nursing at St. Joseph's ...Nagapattinam station to get coach indication boards
Tenders are proposed to be floated for the setting up of Coach Indication Boards here at the Nagapattinam Railway Station. This will be one of the significant interventions taken up by the Southern Railway following complaints of serious lack of ...In true spirit
Every day, hundreds of thousands of us humans head to pilgrim spots across the globe. Most of these beautiful and holy sites are now reeling under the ecological impact of such massive floating populations, who leave behind millions of litres of ...Detailed route list for mini buses
Tambaram East to Vengambakkam (route: Selaiyur, Indira Nagar, Bharat Engineering College, Mappedu Kootu Road, Poonam Tipper). Thiruvanmiyur Railway Station to Madhya Kailash (route: M.G.R. Nagar, Kanagam, Thiruveedhi Amman Temple, IIT) Ashok ...Sri Lankan fishermen remanded
The twenty-five Sri Lankan fishermen arrested by the Coast Guard for fishing in the Indian territorial waters off Velankanni were produced before the Chief judicial Magistrates Court here on Tuesd...
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