A March-April campaign in Tamil Nadu, under the scorching sun, can be gruelling.

The sprawling, two-acre farmhouse at Kalapatty, on the outskirts of the city, is getting spruced up for AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa’s stay during her election campaign here.

Coimbatore girl Muskan Jain, 10, kidnapped by her van driver on Friday with her brother Rithik, was raped by her abductor before she was killed, postmortem reports show.

At least 15 persons, including four students, were injured when a country-made bomb exploded on Monday at a bus stand near Udumalpet, about 70 km from here, the police said.