Thiruvananthapuram, June 6 (BPNS) The indefinite strike announced by the transport unions, including CITU, to protest against the uncertainty in salary distribution to the KSRTC employees in front of the chief’s office begins today. The unions decided to go ahead with the strike, without disrupting the bus services, after the management violated the agreement to […]

Thiruvananthapuram, June 5 (BPNS) Kerala PWD minister Mohammed Riyas said that four officers of the Public Works Department were suspended in Ernakulam on Sunday. This was following the death of a youth, Vishnu during early hours of Sunday who fell into a pit at the approach road to the bridge which was not alerted by […]

Puducherry, June 3 (BPNS) The Puducherry airport runway is in the process of expansion and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) is preparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the same. Puducherry Civil Aviation minister Lakshminarayanan while speaking to BPNS said, “  A technical team of the Airport Authority of India had visited the Union […]

Chennai, June 1 (BPNS) The pension bill of Government of Tamil Nadu is to increase to Rs 40,000 crore this financial year as around 20000 government employees are retiring from service. 5200 Tamil Nadu government employees retired on Tuesday and around 15000 will retire in December 2022 thus leading to a huge number of vacancies […]

Chennai, May 31 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu fishing department in its annual inspection report in the Nagapattinam district has found that 119 fishing vessels were not registered. The department of fishing in Tamil Nadu has undertaken an annual inspection of vessels between May 25 and 26. The department, according to a statement on  Tuesday said it […]

Chennai, May 30 (BPNS) The flood mitigation work is to commence soon in Chennai and thirteen other districts of Tamil Nadu after the state highways department accorded sanction for the same. According to the state highways authorities, an amount of Rs 392.16 crore has been allocated for the same. A Government order has been issued […]

Chennai, May 30 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Start-Ups and Innovative Mission (TANSIM) has come out with two new ventures, a StartupTN Brandlabs and a StartupTN Launchpad. State Minister for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) T.M. Ambarasan will launch the two new initiatives this week. The TANSIM in a statement on Monday said that the […]

Chennai, May 29 (BPNS) A couple in Tamil Nadu has got a ‘No Religion, No Caste’ certificate for their three and half year daughter, Vilma. Naresh Karthik and his wife Gayatri approached several schools for admitting their daughter to kindergarten and put the religion and caste column blank. Naresh who is the founder of  Seedreaps […]

Chennai, May 27 (BPNS) The Katpadi railway station which is one of the oldest railway junctions in the country is to be developed with a project cost of Rs 360 crore and will be completely disabled-friendly. It is to be noted that Indian Railways is committed to having many disabled-friendly railway stations across the country […]

Chennai, May 27 (BPNS) The Union Territory of Lakshadweep will have new 18 4G mobile towers leading to enhanced mobile network connectivity. 19 existing 2G mobile towers will be upgraded to 4G services. Lakshadweep administration Secretary, S. Asker Ali IAS in a statement on Friday said that the Department of Telecom has given approval for […]