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47 unusual facts about Coimbatore


Airtel Super Singer

Judges had to shortlist from about 10000 canditates from auditions in three cities, Chennai, Tiruchirapalli and Coimbatore.

Aiyadurai Jesudasen Appasamy

Bishop Aiyadurai Jesudasen Appasamy (3 September 1891 – 1975) was an Indian Christian theologian, and bishop of the Church of South India in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

From 1951 until his retirement in 1959 he served in the newly formed Church of South India as bishop in Coimbatore diocese, Tamil Nadu.

Amma Unavagam

As an instance, it was reported that for the Coimbatore municipality corporation, the loss would be about Rs. 2.64 for an Idli, Rs.50 for a unit of sambar rice and Rs.80 for a unit of curd rice, thereby incurring a total loss of about Rs.5

Andrew Harvey

Harvey was born in Coimbatore, India in 1952 and lived there until he was nine years old.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Arunachalam Muruganantham is an inventor from rural Coimbatore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India who uncovered the need for an inexpensive solution to unsanitary and unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.

Athar Jamad Masjid

The Jamaat comprises the descendants of the 52 families from Tirunelveli that moved to Coimbatore in 1850.

Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women

Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, sometimes referred to as Avinashilingam University, is a women only Deemed University located at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Bank of Madras

Bank of Madras had a branch network spread into all the major cities and trade centers of South India, including Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Calicut, Tellicherry, Cochin, Alleppy, Cocanada, Guntur, Masulipatnam, Ootacamund, Nagapatnam, and Tuticorin.

Basudeb Acharia

In 2008, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from the 19th party congress held at Coimbatore

Beena Kannan

Her rapport with the weaving communities earned for her a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from Coimbatore Erode Weaving community in 2009.On September 2011, Beena Kannan Designed Saris walk the “Swarovski Elements 2011″ Ramp.

C.K. Gandhirajan, IPS

He was promoted as the Inspector General of Police on the 22nd of October 2005 and served in Operations, Intelligence and Railways before being posted as The Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City on November 25, 2006.

# As Inspector General / Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City, he prevented communal tension or religious frenzy to surface in the city and thanks to his crackdown and stern action against anti-social elements and trouble mongers; perfect peace and a crime-free atmosphere was ensured.

Cameron Alborzian

He continued his studies at Arsha Yoga Vidya Peetam Trust in Coimbatore, India in 2003.

Coimbatore-Salem MEMU

The Coimbatore-Salem MEMU is a train which from Coimbatore to Salem in Tamil Nadu state in India.

Dharmaveera K. Govindaswamy Naidu

Annur Annadhana Vallal Dharmaveera Namboorar Sri K Govindaswamy Naidu (July 12, 1907 - January 28, 1995), popularly known as KG, was an industrialist and philanthropist from Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu, in South India.

Formiscurra

Other specimens have been collected from a widely separated locations in southern India including Nagerhole, Dindigul, Mettupalayam and in Andhra Pradesh.

Formula Rolon

They run in the single make championships held in the tracks of Coimbatore and Chennai.

The Gearbox was a Racing gear box, with straight cut-dog ring gears and in-built LSD (Limited Slip Differential) manufactured in-house at Coimbatore by Super Speeds similar to Hewland racing transmission.

Fortified Destruction

Fortified Destruction Co-Headlined the first ever metal festival in Coimbatore, along with Thrash.

G. D. Naidu Industrial Exhibition

D. Naidu Industrial Exhibition is an industrial exhibition founded by scientist and politician from Coimbatore, G. D. Naidu.

K. M. Radha Krishnan

Then he went to Coimbatore and returned after a few years to complete schooling in Gadwal.

Kerala Varma IV

Soon after his accession, Kerala Varma embarked on a tour of British India in order to improve his knowledge of the country and visited Coimbatore, Bangalore, Poona, Indore and Benares.

Lotus News

Lotus News (Tamil: லோடஸ் ந்யூஸ்) is satellite TV's relay on OCTOBER 11, 2012 headquartered at Coimbatore in Tamilnadu and has been successfully broadcasting all its events acquiring a huge local and international Tamil population as its regular viewers.

Maruti Chitampalli

He grew up in Solapur and then went to enroll himself in State Forest Service College in Coimbatore.

Melamuri

It lies on an important location on the road leading from Ponnani to Coimbatore.

Mirudhubashini Govindarajan

In early 2011, she moved into a brand new facility of her own Women's Center, built on par with world standards, located in the Northern part of Coimbatore providing all women's healthcare services under a single roof.

Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri

They also found that, the train made a technical stop at Coimbatore nearly 2 hours which was announced onboard.

Nilgiri Malabar Battalion

The ghats of the Nilgiris lead to the plains of Malabar and Coimbatore.

Nous Infosystems

It has its development centers in India at Bengaluru (Bangalore) and Coimbatore, and also has offices in the USA, UK, Germany and Canada.

Ooty railway station

The heritage Nilgiri Mountain railway takes almost two hours of journey to travel down to town of Mettupalayam in Coimbatore at the foothill of Nilgiri mountains.

Ophisops leschenaultii

Jerdon (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxii. p. 476) says that he has recognized the species: it is somewhat locally distributed. I have seen it in the Salem and Coimbatoor districts only, especially near the banks of the Cauvery. It frequents bushy ground, hedges of Euphorbia and clumps of Cactus.

P. S. Ramalingam

In the year 1996 he became the Chairman for Mettupalayam Municipality and was influential in bringing and completing a water scheme that proved quite successful among many other development projects.

Pappa Vidyaakar

Recently a new branch has started in Coimbatore and Udavum Karangal is now a NGO fostering over 2,000 between students, elders and mentally challenged and giving work to over 120 people.

Radio Mirchi

Coimbatore - On AIR since November 2007, "Idhu semmma hot machchi!"

Roshan Sebastian

Even though he was born in Kerala he has spent most of his time in Tamil Nadu—first in Coimbatore and now in Chennai.

Sanitary napkin

In order to meet the need for achieving an inexpensive solution to tackle unsanitary and unhygienic practices in countries like India, Arunachalam Muruganantham from rural Coimbatore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India developed and patented a machine which could manufacture low-cost sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost.

Sankara Eye Foundation

At the urging of their uncle Mr. P. Balasubramaniam of India, brothers Murali and Sridharan became motivated to help Sankara Eye Care Institutions, whose mission headquarters is in Coimbatore, India.

Saugor railway station

Hence it lacks connectivity with important places such as all the major cities in South India including Trivendrum, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Mysore, Coimbatore, Cochin, Kolhapur and Tirupati.

Sindhudurg district

District is also well connected by Konkan railway to Mumbai, Thane,Goa and other parts of the country like Mangalore, Karwar Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Hapa, Veraval, New Delhi, Jodhpur, Porbundar by Konkan rail.

Søren Kristian Toubro

As an employee of F. L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen, he came to India in 1934 to erect and commission the equipment supplied to the Madukkarai Cement Works (near Coimbatore) and the Rohri Cement Factory (near the Sukkur Barrage in Sindh).

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

Tessolve

It was started in the year 2004, and is headquartered in the city of Bangalore and Coimbatore.

TVS Group

TVS Group is an Indian diversified industrial conglomerate with its principal headquarters located in Chennai and Coimbatore.

V.R. Raghava Krishna

In September 2013 at his concert, featured by Nadabrahma Gana Sabha in Vanaprastha, Coimbatore, the graphic presentations revealed how he internalised the inner core and fertilised it by intense saadhakam (the way of learning, practising and mastering Carnatic Music).

Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai

Ramalingam had his school educations in Namakkal and Coimbatore.

Wet grinder

Wet grinders are largely manufactured in Coimbatore because granite is easily available in this region.


Air Force School Coimbatore

The Board of Managing Committee of the School is headed by the Commandant AFAC (Air Force Administrative College)Red Fields, Coimbatore-641018 which is under administrative control of Training Command (TC), headquartered at Bangalore.

Annur

Annur lies on the junction of three important roads, NH 209 (Coimbatore - Bangaluru), Annur - Avinashi road and Annur - Mettupalayam road to north east of Coimbatore city.

Benjamin Heyne

He did a great deal of collecting at Coimbatore and Bangalore and compiled a large collection of plant specimens which were forwarded to London.

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

The Government College of Technology, Coimbatore was founded in 1945 as Arthur Hope College of Technology (named after Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour), under the patronage of the philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (G.D. Naidu).

High-speed rail in India

Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting-up of high-speed rail corridors: DelhiChandigarhAmritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, HowrahHaldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.

INS Hansa

INS Hansa was commissioned on 5 September 1961 at Sulur near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

KTVR

KTVR Knowledge Park for Engineering and Technology, an engineering college (A Unit of KTVR Vijaydeepa Group) in Coimbatore, India

Lakshmi Machine Works

It started its operation in 1962 in Periyanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore city with technical collaboration with Swiss based textile machinery manufacturer Rieter for textile machines and German based Steel and Ammunition major Krupp.

Mylswamy Annadurai

He has obtained a Bachelors in Engineering degree at 1980 from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and completed his Masters Degree in Engineering on 1982 from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and Ph.D from Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore Tamil Nadu in India.

Nilgiris 1905

Muthusamy carried letters and cheques for the British from Coimbatore to the hill stations of Ooty and Coonoor.

Peelamedu

Peelamedu (formerly known as poolaimedu means Mound of Poolai Flowers) A Mound (medu) where more Poolai flowers(Aerva lanata) available for worship during Pongal festival) is a part of the city of Coimbatore.

Sankara Eye Foundation

SEF initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI), India, which runs the "Gift of Vision" rural outreach program through Sankara Eye Hospitals in Coimbatore, Krishnankovil, Bangalore, Shimoga, Guntur, Anand, Pammal and Silvassa.

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

Sri Lankan Tamils in India

Highest number of Sri Lankan Tamil families living in KK Nagar, Thuvakudi in Trichirapalli, Neelankarai, Valasaravakkam in Chennai, Nagercoil in Kanniyakumari, R.S puram, Valparai in Coimbatore.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.