Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Carlson Hotels opens Park Plaza in Coimbatore

Carlson, a leading global hospitality and travel company, will open its 100th 'Park Plaza' brand hotel in India by 2015, with its capacity touching almost 10,000 rooms by then, a top company official said. The company launched its 40th Park Plaza, with 107 rooms, in Coimbatore on Saturday.

"With the launch of the 40th Park Plaza, the total number of rooms have gone up to 4,027, across the country. With franchisees, another 6,000 would be added in another four years," Carlson Hotels, Asia Pacific, Executive Vice-President (South Asia) K B Kachru told PTI.

Talking about its Tamil Nadu plans, Kachru said Carlson has three hotels in the state and with another City Centre being opened in Chennai soon, the number would go up to eight in Tamil Nadu and increase by another six across India by this year-end.

The company would launch a facility in Bangalore in the middle of 2012 and also has plans to tap the potential in the temple town of Madurai and Munnar in Kerala, he said.

When asked about the estimated investment on the upcoming hotels in the country, he said negotiations are still going on with franchisees, though he added the Coimbatore project that was set up in partnership with Sabari Group involved an expenditure of Rs 8 crore.

Stating that the hospitality sector has huge potential in India, particularly in two-tier cities, Kachru said that Carlson will focus on the mid-market segment in particular.

Friday, September 09, 2011

TIDEL promotes Coimbatore IT Park

A group of small-scale Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (ITES) companies can jointly take space at the Tidel Park here, according to an official at the park.

Inviting investors to the park, the official said modular IT space ranging from 5,000 sq. ft. to over two lakh sq. ft. in each floor can be taken up by companies.

However, smaller companies that want less than 5,000 sq. ft. can look at forming a group with other companies and taking up 1,500 to 2,000 sq. ft. each.

Road show
A road show was held in Chennai recently on the Coimbatore Tidel Park. Similar shows are planned in other cities such as Bangalore and Mumbai too, the official said.

One company has taken up nearly 20,000 sq.ft. and started operations at the park and one more occupant will soon start operations.

Tidel Park here has come up on 10 acres at a special economic zone with an investment of Rs. 407 crore and has a total built-up area of 17 lakh sq. ft.

Facilities
The IT space at the park is nine lakh sq. ft. The facility has parking space for 2,900 two wheelers and 1,130 four wheelers. The multi-tenant park has 20,000 sq. ft. earmarked for common facilities such as banks, ATMs, book store, video conference hall, and travel desk.

According to the official, there are apprehensions in the IT sector now on the U.S. economy and this may slow down the expansion plans of the IT and ITES firms. Yet, there are companies that are evincing interest in the Coimbatore facility.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Three labourers die of Toxic fumes in Kovai

Three labourers died after inhaling toxic fumes from a septic tank at Jenney Club in Peelamedu on Tuesday.

Police said the labourers were cleaning the clogged septic tank, and had lowered a machine into the 10ft-deep tank to suck out the sludge. R Ashok, 20, got into the tank to retrieve the equipment and was overcome by the toxic fumes.

Seeing him struggle, A Karthik, 21, and K Anandan, 24, jumped in to rescue him. They too inhaled the fumes and died of asphyxiation.Two contractors who hired the workers and an assistant engineer attached to Jenney Club were arrested on charges of causing death by negligence. "It is a case of negligence on the part of the contractor and the club," said corporation commissioner Ansul Mishra.

Fire and rescue service personnel retrieved the bodies of the three. Relatives of the deceased blocked Tiruchi Road near Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, where the bodies were taken for postmortem.

Tiruppur in Deep trouble

Business activity in the knitwear town of Tirupur came to a standstill as units stopped operations on Tuesday in a dawn-to-dusk shutdown to highlight the plight of the industry following the Madras high court directive to close the polluting dyeing units.

The strike was organised by all the major trade unions in Tirupur including AITUC and INTUC to draw the attention of the central and state governments to the crisis faced by the garment knitwear industry.

Tirupur, which exports garments worth about `10,000 crore a year and employs nearly 4 lakh workers, is home to close to 5,000 units. Business to the tune of about `45 crore was affected.

Dyeing units in Tirupur process about 4 lakh kgs of fabric a day while bleaching units take up to 1 lakh kg. With large sections of the industry stating that zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is virtually impossible, the focus has now shifted to other options including taking up marine discharge, which has not much moved beyond discussions.

However, a section of the industry believes that the government should collect the wastewater and treat it for which charges can be levied. This is being done in Surat and can be replicated here as well, industry sources said.

"ZLD is not feasible. Marine discharge could also throw up litigation. We can maintain total dissolved solid (TDS) below 2,100 levels. This can be an interim solution," they said.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

New CBSE School in Coimbatore

A group of academicians in Coimbatore have come together to start a new CBSE school in the name of "Noyyal Public School" at the outskirts of Coimbatore. The school is located in a sprawling campus of more than six acres and can be reached by road within seven minutes from Kinathukadavu on the Coimbatore – Pollachi National Highway (NH209). The main campus has a salubrious climate year round benefitted by both southwest and northeast monsoons. The school promises to have an optimal strength of 25-30 students per class. Students will be given creative assignments so that they will learn scientific approach to address personal, professional and social problems. This new CBSE School will be a co-educational and also carries boarding facilities to allow students for far off places to avail quality education.

Admissions are open for the year 2011-2012 and classes start during second week of June for all classes.

Admissions Office
307, Pollachi Main road, Kinathukadavu, Coimbatore-642109
Phone: 04259-242464
Mobile: 9585948200
Mail: admissions@noyyalps.in

Admissions Coordinator
1. M.Ravisankar B.Com. – 9585948200, 9787560906

Monday, February 07, 2011

New Township project in Coimbatore

Property developer True Value Homes (TVH) has launched a Rs 800 crore residential and integrated township project in Coimbatore, reports The Financial Express. The multifaceted Aurora Township offers premium villas, high-rise residences, malls and shopping centres and 1600-seat, eight-screen multiplexes, the report states quoting the company's chairman N Ravichandran.

"The residential apartments, Vista Heights, would be built in two phases accommodating about 800 apartments, with one, two, three and four-bedroom units on offer, ranging from 500 square feet to 4,000 square feet," he told

Young Couple murdered in Coimbatore

In a brutal double murder in Coimbatore outskirts, a power loom owner and his wife were clubbed and stabbed to death by two labourers in their loom at Somanur on Saturday night.

The young couple, P Shanmugham (35) and S Manomani (30), were found lying in a pool of blood with head and chest wounds at their weaving unit on Sunday morning. The ghastly murder came to light when the couple's three-year-old son Abhirami was found wailing outside their farm house. They have a seven-month-old child, too, Kavindran.

In the power loom hub of Somanur, Shanmugham was operating about 12 looms in a weaving unit adjoining his sprawling farm house. On Sunday night, two workers on night shift rang the door bell of his house and called him to the weaving unit to fix a repair in the loom. According to the police, an unsuspecting Shanmugham went to the loom where he was clobbered with iron rods and stabbed with a sickle.

As Shanmugham did not return home for a long time, his wife went to the weaving unit and met with the same tragic fate. She too was attacked with iron rods and sickle. However, the identity of the two workes is not known as they had been hired only 10 days ago.

While the local weavers worked during the day shift, workers from southern Tamil Nadu or north India were engaged to do the night shifts, police said. Often, the local power loom owners hire people who arrived by night trains from various parts of Tamil Nadu and north India to Tirupur to work at their looms without checking their backgrounds. The acute labour shortage in the textile belt forced the power loom operators to hire complete strangers. Such hasty hiring has cost the lives of Shanmugham and his wife and orphaned their children.

"The workers who are in need of a job wait at Somanur railway gate at nights. The owners of the power looms would hire them without any enquiry. Shanmugam had hired two workers from the Somanur railway gate for his power looms only 10 days ago," said ADSP M Annadurai.

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Siruvani Dam falls short of its Full Capacity.

Now, hopes of the North-East Monsoon filling up Siruvani Dam are as good as dashed. The water level in the dam is 10 ft short of the full reservoir level of nearly 50 ft. And, there has been no rain over the last three days in the catchment.

Figures provided by the Coimbatore Corporation point out that the highest rainfall during November is 40 mm. The first week of this month has provided scanty rainfall, the maximum being 25 mm on December 3.

Very reluctantly, water supply officials say that the dam may not fill up this time even though water is still flowing into the dam from the upper reaches of the Siruvani hills. The supply situation in one half of the 105 sq.km. city and some municipalities and town panchayats may become tight during summer as the water level will only dip as soon as the inflow stops.

Officials are, however, hopeful of the Coimbatore Corporation completing the Pilloor Phase II water scheme for the city and some eastern suburbs. The Corporation had announced that the scheme will be completed and supply will begin by March 31 next year.

If that deadline is not met, the impact will be felt in the city. An official feels that it may lead to rescheduling of supply in the city to once in four days. But, he says that the Corporation's focus now is on completing the scheme by March 31, as it is aware of the risks on the Siruvani scheme front.

Water supply officials also seek to draw comfort from the Bhavani scheme implemented for Kavundampalayam Municipality and Vadavalli Town Panchayat, suburbs west of the city. But, there are already protests from the people in these areas over the quality of water being supplied under this scheme.

The residents complain that Bhavani water is not provided on alternate days despite a promise by the local bodies. They, therefore, want an increase in the supply of Siruvani water. If this demand continues during summer all the local bodies need Siruvani water will run into scarcity.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Coimbatore - Ahmedabad Spice Jet flight stops at Chennai due to technical error.

Two Spice Jet flights today landed at Chennai airport following technical problems, airport sources said.

Earlier, a Coimbatore-Ahmedabad flight with 50 passengers made an unscheduled landing at Chennai Airport after it developed a "technical error".

Officials said the flight landed here after pilots detected the error.

"The passengers would be accommodated in another flight to Ahmedabad later," they said.

Later a Madurai-bound Spice Jet, with 62 passengers onboard, which had left Chennai after a delay of 30-minutes, at around 1820 hrs, returned after developing a technical problem, they said.

All the passengers were immediately evacuated and would be accommodated in another flight to Madurai later.

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Coimbatore Hospitals List

Aparna Hospital
450-D,Palghat Main Road,
Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore-641008
Phone:(+91-422)2872822, 2872248

Arvind Eye Hospital
Avinashi Road, Peelamedu,
Coimbatore-14
Phone:(+91-422)2578901

Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam & Research Institute
136-7 Trichy Road,
Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore -641 045
Phone:(+91-422)2313188

Ashwin Hospital
545 BKR Nagar Sathy Rd-641012.
Phone: 0422-494400


Balaji Nursing Home
48. Cowly Brown Road,
R.S Puram, Coimbatore-641 002
Phone:(+91-422)2540503, 2545469


Coimbatore Diabetes Foundation
17, Cowley Brown Road, R.S Puram, Coimbatore-2
Phone:(+91-422)2453770, 2447101, 2439882

Coimbatore Kidney Centre
738-A, Puliakulam Road, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore-45
Phone:(+91-422)2314487, 2314255


Coimbatore Kidney Stone Centre
Avinashi Road, Race Course, Coimbatore-641 018
Phone:(+91-422)2213423

Contact Lens Clinic
69-70 Big Bazaar St-641001.
Phone: 0422-394049


CSR Nursing Home
272, 7th Street Extension, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore- 641012
Phone:(+91-422)2490606, 2490762


Diabetes Care & Research Centre
Ramnagar, Coimbatore-641 009
Phone:(+91-422)2235083

Ellen Hospital
284 Sathy Rd Gandhipuram-641012.
Phone: 0422-496922


Ganga Hospital
Swarnambika Layout, Ramnagar
Coimbatore-9, India.
Phone: (+91-422)2235050
Fax : +91-422-2232652

G.Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital
P.O No.6327, Pappanaickenpalayam,
Coimbatore-641 037.
Phone:(+91-422)2211000
Phone:(+91-422)2213501 to 2213507.

Kanthaswamy Siddha Hospital
266, Mettupalayam Road, Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore-641 043
Phone:(+91-422)2445433, 2442832


Kalpana Hospital
171, Shasthri Road, Ramnagar,
Coimbatore-641 009
Phone: (+91-422)2232566

Karunya Rural Community Hospital
Karunya Nagar P.O.,
Coimbatore - 641 114
Phone:(+91-422)2614681

KG Hospital
Arts College Road
Coimbatore - 641 018
Phone:(+91-422)2212121, 2222222
Fax : +91 - 422 - 2211212



Kongunad Hospital (P) Ltd
79, 11th Street, Tatabad,
Coimbatore-12
Phone:(+91-422)2494363

Kovai Diabetes Speciality Centre
15, Vivekananda Road, Ramnagar,
Coimbatore-641 009

Phone:(+91-422)2236806,2237259

Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH)
Post Box No.3209 Avanashi Road, Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641014.
Phone:(+91-422)2827784 to 90
Fax : +91 -422-2827782

KTVR Hospital
P.O.Box: 2750, Narayana Guru Road,
Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore - 641 011.
Phone: (91-422) - 2445451, 2445311, 2458311 & 2458312
Fax: (91-422) - 2439990



Lalithaa Hospital
828A, Crosscut Road,
Gandhipuram, Coimbatore-12
Phone:(+91-422)2499533

Lotus Eye Care Hospital
19, Cowley Brown Road,
R.S.Puram, Coimbatore-2, India.
Avinashi Road NH 47
Civil Aerodrome Post
Coimbatore - 14
Phone:(+91-422)2626464, 2626565


(MIH) MedIndia Hospitals
96, Vivekananda Road, Ramnagar,
Coimbatore 641 009
Phone:(+91-422) 2232565, 2230090
Fax: +91-44-28261122

Naveen Hospital
Raja Nagar, Trichy Road, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore-28
Phone:(+91-422)2317065, 2319195, 2317589.

Ponniah Hospital
232, East Thiruvenkataswamy Road, R.S Puram, Coimbatore-641002
Phone:(+91-422)2453385


PSG Hospitals
Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641004
Phone:(+91-422)2570170

Rao Hospital
West Periyasamy Road,
R.S. Puram, Coimbatore-641002
Phone:(+91-422)2431420, 2436510, 2431341, 2453972


Richmond Hospital
1287, Trichy Road, (Opp Air Inida), Coimbatore-18
Phone:(+91-422)2303630



Sankara Eye Centre Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust
Sathy Road, Sivanadapuram, Ganapathy,
Coimbatore - 641035
Phone :(+91-422)22666450
Fax: 91 - 422 - 22666460

Saravana Surgery
356, D.B Road, R.S.Puram,
Coimbatore-641 002.
Phone:(+91-422)2470835, 2477684

Sheela Hospital
46, East Power House Road, Tatabad,
Coimbatore-12
Phone:(+91-422)249838-3

Siloam Thomas Eye Hospital
No:15, Chinnammal Street,
K.K. Pudur,Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore-641038
Tamilnadu, INDIA.
Phone : (+91-422) 2441745, 4202745
Fax: 4383745

Sri Ramakrishna Hospital
395,Sarojini Naidu road, Ramnagar,
Coimbatore-44
Phone:(+91-422) 2210075

Surya Hospital
Ganapathy, Coimbatore-641009
Phone:(+91-422)2531797


The Balakishnan Hospital
100 Feet Road, Tatabad, Coimbatore-641 012
Phone:(+91-422)2497114


The Eye Foundation
55-56, Subramaniam Road,
West Ramalingam Road Junction,
R.S.Puram,
Coimbatore -641 002


Vedanayagam Hospital Pvt Ltd
133, East Bashyakaralu Road,
R.S.Puram, Coimbatore-2
Phone:(+91-422)2430043,2430044


Vikram ENT Hospital & Research Institute
69, West Venkataswamy Road, R.S.Puram, Coimbatore-2
Phone:(+91-422)2550633, 2546387,2550133