Though we hail from Devakottai, Pollachi became home after my grandfather PRMS Chellappa Chettiar moved here in the early 1930s to set up a vaddi kadai. We had an estate in the Anamalais, Pudhuththottam, where we grew coffee, tea and cardamom.

In the Pollachi region of India policemen arrested five individuals attempting to transport dump poultry waste. Illegal dumping in India is becoming increasingly common. The persons were from the neighbouring state of Kerala, and the occasion prompted ...

The Mahalingampuram police in Pollachi have registered a case against Murali and Saravanan on charges of damaging two Kerala-registered vehicles that were on their way to Namakkal to dump waste. The Tamil Nadu police first stopped the vehicles at the ...

COIMBATORE: The Pollachi police grappled with an unusual 'stinking' case on hand on Wednesday and Thursday — offloading poultry waste illegally transported from Kerala. Early on Wednesday, MDMK cadre and locals intercepted a lorry and mini-truck ...

Members of the public and police on Tuesday night intercepted two cargo vehicles laden with fish and poultry waste near Vazhanthayamaram on the Pollachi – Palakkad/ Thrissur Road, which was about to be reportedly dumped inside Tamil Nadu.

COIMBATORE: Two days after the district administration warned of strict action against transporters and land owners against taking waste materials from Kerala to dump on vacant lands in Pollachi region, the police have seized two vehicles and arrested ...

Forest officials of the Pollachi Range of Anamalai Tiger Reserve, in a joint operation with the police, arrested two persons who were found in possession of a star tortoise. They found the protected species while bathing in the river and planned to ...

Raising the issue during the zero hour in the Lok Sabha on Monday, AIADMK member from Pollachi K. Sugumar said that Karnataka was also trying to divert the flow of the river to its territory depriving of the benefit to Tamil Nadu.