New Year celebrations conclude peacefully in Salem, Namakkal districts

New Year celebrations, connected Thursday (January 1, 2026), concluded peacefully successful Salem and Namakkal districts.

Due to New Year celebrations, the Salem City constabulary deployed 850 constabulary unit astatine important locations specified arsenic the New Bus Stand, Old Bus Stand, Collectorate, Four Roads, Five Roads, and earlier temples and churches. The constabulary besides conducted conveyance checks astatine junctions that connects Salem Corporation with the National highways. In Salem district, 900 constabulary unit were deployed for assemblage power and to forestall accidents astatine important locations.

People gathered astatine temples from the aboriginal hours of Thursday to connection prayers. At Kottai Mariamman Temple, Kottai Perumal Temple, Rajaganapathi Temple, and Sugavaneswarar Temple, radical waited successful agelong queues to connection their prayers. At the Tiruchengode Arthanareeswarar temple successful Namakkal district, thousands gathered to connection prayers from 3 a.m. Notably, Prakash, a nonmigratory of Suriyampalayam adjacent Tiruchengode, performed 1,300 push-ups successful each measurement astatine the Arthanareeswarar temple to make consciousness among younker astir exercise.

At Yercaud, radical gathered successful ample numbers from Wednesday evening (December 31, 2025) and celebrated the caller year. The Botanical Garden, Ladies Seat, Gents Seat, Pagoda Point, Rose Garden, Anna Park, Kiliyur Falls, and Shervaroyan Temple were filled with radical connected Thursday. Due to the ample footfall successful Yercaud, constabulary conducted conveyance checks astatine the foothills, verified the edifice oregon edifice booking receipts and allowed the tourists to participate the elevation station.

At the Kurumbapatti Zoological Park, thousands of radical gathered, and owed to the dense crowd, the unit allowed visitors to bargain entranceway tickets successful phases.