Coimbatore is a city in India located in the southeast in Tamil Nadu state. The city is home to nearly 2 million people.
The city is the district administrative center and the junction of rail lines linking the East and West coasts of India. A huge marketplace, the common staples bought and sold include tea, cotton, teak, cardamom, and chinchona. There are also manufacturing plants that process foods, cotton, and transport equipment. It is also well-connected by road and air.
It's known for its industrial hub, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, fair weather, friendly culture, and hospitality (it is called the city of hospitality ). The majority of people in this city are polite and well educated. There is a noted minority of people of West and North Indian origin residing in Coimbatore, affording a cosmopolitan atmosphere to the city.
Many different languages are spoken in Coimbatore, with Tamil, English, Tulu, Gujarati, Kannada, and Kongu Tamil. Coimbatore has a history of being a major center for higher education since the early 1900s. Coimbatore boasts an agricultural University, a number of government and private engineering colleges, two medical colleges, and a number of science and arts colleges.
Dining experiences in Coimbatore range from rice-based spicy South Indian dishes such as boiled rice, Pongal, Dosai, and Idly. Most eateries in restaurants also offer North Indian foods as well. There are a host of other types of restaurants including fast food, Chinese, and continental food. |
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Hari, Saravanakumar hit centuries (The Hindu)
Coimbatore: R. Hari Prasad?s 109 enabled Ramakrishna Cricket Trust score a 64-run win over R.K.S. Kalvi Nilayam ICC in the Canara Bank-CDCA first division league, for the Pricol Trophy, here recently. At the SNR Sons ground, S.P. ...
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Plans to aid medical textile industry (The Hindu)
COIMBATORE: The Union Ministry of Textiles has identified the South India Textile Research Association based here as a centre of excellence for medical textiles production. Association director Arindam Basu told The Hindu ...
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Quality check (The Hindu)
There was a 20 per cent drop in campus recruitment at Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore. Out of the 630 students 374 got placements. Only 13 companies visited the campus this year compared with 18 last year, said its placement officer Prof D. Lakshmanan.
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DBT nod for TNAU project (New Kerala)
Coimbatore, July 7 : The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Union Ministry of Science and Technology has sanctioned a new project on ''Macro and micro-propagation for mass multiplication in selected high neera yielding palmyrah (Borassus flabellifer L) types of different palmyrah growing regions of India'' to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) for a period of three years ...
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Mphasis to tap rural workforce (Business Standard India)
Information technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) company Mphasis is looking at entering the rural parts of the country to tap the largely untapped workforce in the next three to four years. During the current year, the company is planning to add more facilities in tier II and III cites.
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