The Present Indian Hockey team is the fittest to leave the shores of India, M.M.Somaya
M.M. Somaya or Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya, the 62-year-old Arjuna Award-winning hockey player was the former Captain of the Indian Hockey team in the Seoul Olympics of 1988. He has represented the country in the 1984 Los Angels Olympics as also was part of the Gold medal-winning Indian Hockey team of the 1980 Moscow Olympics under […]
Pilgrimage towns to get priority in vaccination, TN Health Minister
Chennai, July 18(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has said that preference in vaccination will be given to natives of pilgrimage towns of the state. He said that Tiruvannamalai, Nagore, Velnakanni, and Rameshwaram towns have been identified for this purpose. The state health minister was speaking after inaugurating a vaccination camp at St Xavier’s […]
Stalin, Kanimozhi pay homage to Father Stan Swamy
Chennai, July 18(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K.Stalin and other senior leaders of the state including, Kanimozhi MP, former Union minister, Dayanidhi Maran MP paid floral tributes to the Tribal activist, Father Stan Swamy died at a Mumbai hospital after prolonged judicial custody at Taloja Jail in Mumbai in the Bhima Koregaon case. The Chief […]
Pocso case: Teaching, non-teaching staff of Siva Shankar Baba’s school absconding
Chennai, July 18(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Crime Branch –CID which is investigating the sexual abuse case against Shiv Sankar Baba, the godman who was arrested and remanded, has reported that five teaching and non-teaching staff of the school are found absconding. The CB-CID had summoned the five for getting more details regarding the sexual abuse […]
Tamil Nadu Police books retired policeman 46 years after he abandoned his wife
Chennai, July 18(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu police have booked a retired policeman, Vijayabalan against whom a woman had complained that he had ditched her after seven months of marriage. The victim who is now 65 complained that after their marriage, they stayed at various places in Chennai city, and after seven months, Vijayabalan abandoned her. […]
Lulu group’s Yusuf Ali to settle dues of women evicted for non-payment of rent of a shop.
Thiruvananthapuram, July 18(BPNS) Billionaire Non-Resident Keralite businessman M.A.Yusuf Ali has announced that he would settle the dues of a woman, Prasanna,54 who was evicted by the Greater Chennai Development Corporation (GCDA) from her shop at Kochi for non-payment of her rent. The woman had to pay 13,800 rupees per month as rent and due to […]
Co-optex to produce organic wear for children, eyeing global markets
Chennai, July 16(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu handloom weavers cooperative society or Co-optex is planning organic wear for children and to scout for global markets. The cooperative which has more than 1000 handloom weaver societies under it is planning to branch out as the sale of traditional sarees which the cooperative have been producing has come […]
India has high chances to be on the podium in Olympic Hockey, V. Bhaskaran
Chennai, July 16(BPNS) Padmashri V. Bhaskaran was the former Indian hockey team captain and Team India had won the hockey gold under his captaincy in Moscow Olympics. A decorated coach and an Arjuna award winner, Bhaskaran was a senior Sports official with the Indian Railways prior to his retirement. A highly skilled center-forward for the […]
AIADMK to announce organization elections in a week’s time
Chennai, July 16(BPNS) The opposition AIADMK will conduct its massive organizational elections soon and an announcement will be made on the same in a week’s time. The party has recently conducted a meeting of district general secretaries and state office bearers at its headquarters in Chennai during last week and has decided to conduct the […]
