Madurai
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COVID-19: Madurai Police uses drones with speakers to create awareness among people
News | Jul 15, 2020, 11:17 AM ISTAmid COVID-19 increasing cases in the country, police is taking different steps to aware people.
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Watch: Bull tries to stop a vehicle carrying its friend which is a cow
News | Jul 15, 2020, 11:06 AM ISTA bull in Tamil Nadu's Madurai followed a vehicle for one kilometer, which carried a cow. The bull tried to stop the vehicle.
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Complete lockdown extended in Madurai till July 12
India | Jul 04, 2020, 05:44 PM ISTTamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Saturday announced extension of complete lockdown in Madurai till July 12 from July 6 onwards.
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Complete lockdown in Madurai till June 30: Check list of guidelines
India | Jun 22, 2020, 11:04 PM ISTA complete lockdown will be in force in Madurai, Tamil Nadu government said in a notification on Monday. The lockdown will be effective from June 23 till June 30.
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Vaigai River water benefitting people in Madurai
News | Jun 06, 2020, 04:15 PM ISTThe judicious use of Vaigai River water is benefitting people in large numbers in Tamil Nadu's Madurai.
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Skeletal remains of animal found at Madurai excavation site
News | Jun 04, 2020, 11:25 PM ISTSkeletal remains of an animal have been found at the excavation site near Madurai where excavation work started on May 23.
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Fire breaks out in three-storey textile store in TN's Madurai
News | May 29, 2020, 08:39 AM ISTA fire broke out in a three-storey textile store building in TN's Madurai on May 28. Atleast 10 fire tenders rushed to the spot to douse the flames.
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IndiGo passenger, who travelled in Bengaluru-Madurai flight, tests positive
India | May 28, 2020, 02:10 PM ISTAn IndiGo Bengaluru-Madurai flight passenger has tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after going through during mandatory test on the same day at a quarantine facility in Madurai, the airline said on Thursday. The passenger travelled on IndiGo flight 6E 7214 from Bangalore to Madurai on May 27, 2020 and was found positive for coronavirus in Madurai on 27th May when tested in the quarantine facility.
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Fire breaks out at Gaushala in Tamil Nadu's Madurai, cows dead
News | Feb 28, 2020, 09:29 AM ISTMany cows were killed after fire broke out at Gaushala in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on February 27.
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Grocery shop owner heckled by 3 goons in Madurai
News | Jan 30, 2020, 08:42 AM ISTThree miscreants heckled a grocery shop owner in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on January 28. They hurled kerosene bomb after the shop owner who refused to give them money.
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2 Kilo Onion Ki Keemat: Man tries to steal from grocery shop, arrested
Crime | Dec 09, 2019, 09:28 PM ISTRising prices of onions are hurting us all. A man was arrested by police on Monday for trying to steal 2 Kg onions from a grocery shop. Let's hope onion prices come down in near future.
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Madurai hotel names chicken dish after Brahmin community, apologises later
India | Aug 03, 2019, 08:14 AM ISTA restaurant in Madurai had a dish named on their menu after the Brahmin community, for which they had to later tender an apology.
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19-year-old spectator dies after being mauled by bull during Jallikattu festival in Madurai
India | Jan 15, 2018, 04:51 PM ISTA 19-year-old spectator was gored to death on Monday by a bull during a Jallikattu event at Palamedu in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu.
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Tamil Nadu: Jallikattu organised in Madurai on Pongal, up to 1 lakh spectators expected
India | Jan 14, 2018, 10:22 AM ISTFollowing last year’s state-wide protests to ban Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, the event is being organised in Madurai today on the occasion of Pongal.
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'Topless' minor girls with jewellery adorning necks in Madurai temple: Collector forms panel to ensure girls are covered up
India | Sep 26, 2017, 08:51 PM ISTGirls who have attained puberty are not allowed to take part in this religious practice. Locals say that this ritual of bequeathing girls to village deity Yezhaikaatha Amman is performed every year.
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Blue Whale horror: ‘Once you enter, you can’t exit’, writes Madurai teen before hanging self
India | Aug 31, 2017, 11:13 AM ISTThe deadly online Blue Whale continues to haunt the tech-savvy youth in India as a 19-year-old boy allegedly hung himself at his home in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai on Wednesday while completing the last challenge of the game
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Madurai : Major Fire in edible oil godown
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Jallikattu event in Madurai called off after protests; held across Tamil Nadu, says CM
India | Jan 22, 2017, 02:28 PM ISTPeople in Madurai's Alanganallur, famous for conducting the rural sport where Chief Minister O Panneerselvam will inaugurate jallikattu today are sitting in protest with a demand to find a permanent solution to the ban.
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NIA nabs three suspected Al-Qaeda operatives from TN, police say they were planning attack on PM Modi
India | Nov 28, 2016, 07:20 PM ISTThe NIA has arrested three suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in raids conducted in several places across the city, police said on Monday.
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Rajinikanth summoned by Madurai court in 'Lingaa' case
Bollywood | Mar 08, 2016, 06:44 PM ISTMadurai: Superstar Rajinikanth has been summoned by a Madurai court on Tuesday in connection with the charges that the story of his film "Lingaa" was allegedly stolen from another writer.K.R. Ravi Rathinam, the plaintiff, "Lingaa"