Pudukottai

According to police, C. Aravind, 26, and S. Manikandan, 29, natives of Pudukottai district, had been working as cashiers in a government-run sand quarry at Kilikoodu.

Porpanaikottai, situated about 6.5 km to the east of Pudukottai town, is one of the new sites where the Department had taken up excavation this year.

During the erstwhile Pudukottai Samasthanam period, the building housed the Diwan office and judicial offices.

A 69-year-old man also died at Pudukottai Government Medical College Hospital.

A Special Personal Assistant of Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar died in a road accident after the Sports Utility Vehicle he was travelling in rammed into a tree near Parambur in Pudukottai district early on Sunday.

Kalyan Rana, Texmaco Rail and Engineering Ltd, West Bengal, and Thiruselvam M, BHEL-Pudukottai-Tamil Nadu ranked second and third in the examination, respectively.

Pudukottai and Ariyalur districts recorded two and one.

Pudukottai, too, saw a spike in COVID positive cases.

The region saw three other deaths, one each in Tiruchi, Karur and Pudukottai.

A Dalit writer and activist, Durai Guna, has been arrested in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai district for putting up sarcastic ‘recruitment’ posters — critical of the district administration in a circuitous way — across his native town.

Following heavy rainfall in the State since morning, the district collectors of Trichy, Ariyalur, Pudukottai and Thiruvarur have declared a holiday for all schools today.