Five Lives Saved for Want of a Matchbox

Coimbatore, Five members of a family today attempted to set themselves afire near a police station in Tirupur district but were saved as none of them was carrying a matchbox.
They were demanding the arrest of a man who allegedly promised to marry a 17-year-old girl of the family but absconded after impregnating her.
Police said the victim girl, her parents and two sisters came to a spot near the all Women police station at Palladam in Tirupur district and doused themselves with kerosene. Read More................Not having matchbox saves five lives!

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306-meter-long drawing

Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu): In an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, a fourteen- year-old girl, Bala Soundarya Lakshmi, hailing from Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore city claims to have made a 306-meter-long drawing.

Buzz up!Lakshmi chose to draw continuously to enter the 'Longest Drawing by an Individual' category in the Guinness Book of World records.

Lakshmi started drawing on chart papers measuring 328 feet each, and completed her drawing in 57 hours and 45 minutes. Almost 5,000 fishes of 150 varieties had been drawn. Read More................Tamil Nadu girl sketches 306-meter-long drawing

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Animals fed Ice-Cream in Zoo to beat the heat

Coimbatore: Animals residing in the Coimbatore zoo being fed ice creams, watermelons, and other citrus fruits to help them beat the heat.

"We are facing so may problems regarding heat stroke...for that...to maintain the animals and also the birds...to keep them cool, we are, instead of giving them regular feed; we are concentrating on giving ice cream as well as watermelon ", said Perumalsamy, the director of the zoo at Voc Park in Coimbatore. Read More................Animals fed ice-cream in Zoo to beat the heat

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Priests offer holy offering through mouth-to-mouth contact

Coimbatore: Hundreds of devotees participated in the seven-day-long Karamadai Sri Ranganathar Temple Masi Magam Car Festival in Coimbatore.

Buzz up!The festival culminated with a temple procession in a village at Karamadai on Sunday, in which the priests offered prasadam (holy offering) to the devotees through mouth-to-mouth contact.

People in the outskirts of Coimbatore still practice this tradition and believe in the superstition that if the priest, who is considered as god's messenger, puts prasadam in their mouth through his mouth then the childless women conceive soon and all their family problems disappear. Read More................Coimbatore priests offer holy offering through mouth-to-mouth contact

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