Chennai, July 3 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Department of cooperation has commenced feasibility studies to provide WiFi connection at nominal rates to residents who live within a 200-meter radius near ration shops. A team of cooperation department officials under the Joint Registrars of cooperation is conducting feasibility studies to convert ration shops into data centres. It […]

Chennai, June 30 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu government has proposed to the State Motor vehicles department to amend the Tamil Nadu Motor Vehicles (Regulation and Control of School Buses) Special rules 2012 to install cameras and sensors in school buses. The state home department has in a recent notification directed the Motor vehicles department to ensure […]

Chennai, June 29 (BPNS) The Greater Chennai Corporation has appointed a transperson for flying drones used for spraying larvicide to control the mosquito menace in the corporation. The corporation in its council meeting on Tuesday adopted a resolution to this effect. The appointment which is on a contract basis will be provided to E. Prem […]

Chennai, June 29 (BPNS) The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is to rent out bus shelters, electric posts for advertisements in a bid to spruce up revenue for the corporation. The corporation has joined hands with the World Bank for this project of increasing revenue for the GCC and the bank will be providing an amount […]

Chennai, June 27 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin on Monday unveiled five SIDCO industrial estates in Tamil Nadu. These five parks that are coming up in Chengalpattu, Namakkal, Pudukottai, Salem, and Tiruvannamalai districts of the state will be providing direct employment to 7200 youngsters and will provide indirect employment to 15000 people. The […]

Thiruvananthapuram, June 27, 2022 The cash-strapped Kerala government has decided to spend an amount of Rs 33.31 lakh on chief minister (CM) Pinarayi Vijayan’s security. The said amount is for adding a new car to the CM’s security detail. With this, a total of Rs 88.69 lakh will get spent on CM’s security convoy cars […]

New Delhi, June 26 (BPNS)  Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday said the Central government has allocated over Rs 2,600 crore towards health for Tamil Nadu under the National Health Mission, and Rs 404 crore for medical infrastructure advancement in the state under the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission. Mandaviya is on […]

Thiruvananthapuram, June 26 (IANS) Kerala Minister for local bodies and excise and senior leader of the CPM, M.V.Govindan has said that most of the youths working in student and youth organisations of Kerala are either drunkards or using drugs and other narcotic substances regularly,’’ He said that most of the youths who spearhead anti-drugs and […]

Chennai, June 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government will be soon rolling out e-buses with tenders being called for 100 buses as a first step in Chennai city. The government has already inked a deal with the KfWGerman bank for the financial support of rolling out these buses. The Tamil Nadu government had tried to […]

Chennai, June 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu cooperative department is to retrieve Rs 160 crore as thirty seven thousand people have found ineligible for the loan waiver scheme since February this year. Shanmuga Sundaram,  Registrar of Cooperative Societies ordered the revocation of the loan waiver and has directed the joint registrar of cooperatives in each […]