ayakudi village

A herd of wild elephants trampled a farmer on Tuesday in a mango farm near Palani in Dindigul district sending the villagers to a state of shock.

The tamarind trees on a piece of land adjacent to the Palani-Oddanchatram Road in Ayakudi, a non-descript village in Dindigul district, look an unlikely place for thousands of job aspirants to congregate.

The central region of the state reported its highest single-day rise of Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. As many as 201 people tested positive for the infection that include pregnant women, children and a government doctor with Ariyalur accounting for 188 cases. With this, the central region tally has climbed to 507.

On the eve of Valentine's Day, a young couple who were in love, committed suicide as their families opposed their affair.The bodies were handed over to their families after post-mortem on Thursday evening.

FPOs are farming startups which are being incubated by the Centre through Small Farmer Agri-business Consortium (SFAC), rural development bank NABARD, agriculture and horticulture departments of state governments and NGOs.