TN forest department to identify elephant corridors in newly declared reserve
Chennai, July 8(BPNS) Tamil Nadu forest department officials have commenced preparing Detailed project reports (DPR) to identify elephant corridors in the newly declared Agasthyarmalai Elephant Reserve. It is to be noted that the Union Ministry for Environment has cleared the Tamil Nadu Forest department’s proposal to declare 1197. 48 sq km of forest land in […]
TN Police to be honoured with prestigious President’s Colour on July 22
Chennai, July 7 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Police will be honoured with the prestigious President’s colour, which is the highest honour that is bestowed upon the military, paramilitary and police forces of the State/ Union Territory. This is for honouring the forces that have done exceptional service to the nation. Vice President M. Venkiah Naidu will […]
Woman Hindu activist arrested for issuing threats to Leena Manimekalai
Chennai, July 7 (BPNS) The Selvapuram police in Coimbatore arrested a Woman Hindu activist, ‘Athiradhi’ Saraswati for issuing a threat to Leena Manimekalai, director of documentary film, ‘Kaali’ against which Hindu organizations are up in arms for portraying goddess Kaali in a bad light. The documentary filmmaker portrayed Goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette and holding […]
Madras HC dismiss PIL to freeze AIADMK symbol , fine petitioner with Rs 25000
Chennai , July 7(BPNS) The Madras High Court dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) to freeze the AIADMK symbol and fined the petitioner with Rs 25000. The court dismissed the PIL on Thursday. The first bench of the Madras High court comprising of Chief Justice MN Bhandari and Justice N Mala while dismissing the petition […]
TN Congress MP waiting with crossed fingers for his priceless missing Pen
Chennai , July 7( BPNS) Kanniyakumari Congress MP, Vijay Vasanth is waiting with crossed fingers for his missing pen which is priceless . While it’s a Montblanc pen costing more than 1.5 lakh rupees , what makes it priceless for Vijay is that it was inherited from his late father and former Kanniyakumari MP, H. […]
State government for modernising fair price shops in TN
Chennai, July 7 (BPNS) The Public Distribution Shops (PDS) in Tamil Nadu are set to be modernized with the theme ‘Food security and nutrition security”. The state has around 35000 fair-price shops with most of these shops run by cooperative societies and some of them by women self-help groups. The state food and consumer protection […]
TN power utility to focus more on wind energy for power generation
Chennai, July 7 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company( Tangedco) has started focusing on Wind energy with a new 765KV substation being built in Virudhunagar. Officials are expecting that once this sub station starts functioning,the department will generate more power from wind energy. It is to be noted that the average cost of […]
Malayalam actor sent to jail under POCSO act
Thiruvananthapuram, July 7 (BPNS) Malayalam actor Sreejith Ravi was sent to a 14-day remand after he was charged and arrested under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) act on Thursday. He was arrested by the Thrissur West Police upon complaints filed by two children that he resorted to exhibitionism near SN […]
Gujarat visit of officials, govt didn’t seek report
Thiruvananthapuram, July 7 (BPNS) The Gujarat visit of Kerala’s chief secretary VP Joy and another officer to study the techniques in the Gujarat Chief Minister’s e-governance dashboard system in April had invited a lot of brickbats. Now, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the Assembly that the government had not directed the officers to submit a […]
