TN to replace digital power meters with smart meters
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Generation and Power Distribution Company (Tangedco) is in the process of replacing digital power meters with smart meters. This is to help the consumers get information on consumption, tariff, bill due date, and penalty for defaulting on payments in the mobile numbers of the consumers. The department is […]
TN forest department for increasing green cover in Nilgiris
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) Nilgiris, the hill district in Tamil Nadu is a much sought-after vacation site in the state with tourists visiting the district in large numbers from across the globe. Udhagamandalam or Ooty is a major tourist spot of Nilgiri district and the state forest department is in the process of increasing the […]
Students test Covid positive: TN health department puts Anna University campus on high alert
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu health department has put the Anna University campus on high alert after six students tested Covid -19 positive. 40 samples were tested of which 6 turned positive on Tuesday. The health department has conducted tests on other samples and is waiting for the results. Contact tracing, testing of […]
M- STrIPES app used for pre-monsoon survey at Anamalai Tiger Reserve
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) The pre-monsoon survey of animals, both carnivorous and herbivorous, at the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) is using the services of M-STrIPES ( Monitoring System for Tiger –Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) app developed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The eight-day survey commenced on May 24 and will conclude on […]
Ramanathapuram tense after woman seaweed collector’s partially burnt body recovered
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) The situation in Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu turned tense after the body of a missing woman seaweed collector was recovered from the premises of a private shrimp farm on Wednesday. The fourty-year-old woman had gone out of her home on Tuesday for collecting seaweed for a living. Even after she did not […]
Veerappan’s elder brother dies of cardiac failure
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) Forest brigand Veerappan’s elder brother Madhaiyan died of a cardiac arrest in Salem Government Hospital on Wednesday early morning. Madhaiyan was a life convict in a case related to the murder of a forest officer Chidambaram in 1987 and was in Salem central prison for the past 34 years. He suffered […]
Sasikala blasts DMK, hints at reentry in AIADMK
Chennai, May 25 (IANS) Former interim general secretary of the AIADMK, V.K.Sasikala who was in a political hibernation after her incarceration in Bengaluru central jail has slammed the DMK government led by Stalin. In a press conference here on Wednesday, the former close aide of Jayalalithaa said that the DMK government must stop its confrontationist […]
TN schools for classes 1 to 10 to reopen from June 13
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu minister for School education, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi has said that classes for students from 1 to 10 will commence in the state from June 13 for the academic year 2022-23. He said that for students of Class 12 the academic year will begin on June 20 and for Class […]
Rajani and I are great friends: Kamal Haasan
Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) South Indian Super Star and President of Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), Kamal Haasan has said that politics and friendship are different and that he was a close friend of Tamil Super Star, Rajanikanth and that they had decided when they were 25 as to where the relationship will reach. He said […]
