Chennai, Sept 22 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Wakf Board has claimed that the 1500-year-old Manendiyavalli Chandrashekhara Swami temple land is now its property. The temple has 369 acres of property in and around Tiruchenthurai village in Tiruchi district of Tamil Nadu. The issue started when a local farmer, Rajagopal tried to sell his 1 acre […]
Chennai, Sept 19 (BPNS) A young lawyer in Tamil Nadu, Abdul Rahiman (25 ) who tried to murder a public prosecutor and her daughter is on the run. The incident occurred at Tiruppur on Sunday. Tiruppur police have registered a case against the man who is absconding. Police said that on Sunday, Jameela Bhanu( 42), […]
Chennai, Sept 14( BPNS) Rajagopal, in Tiruvendurai village, was in for a shock when he was informed that he had to get a No- objection certificate (NOC) from the Wakf Board office in Chennai for selling his one-acre land. The villager, who was shattered checked all his documents and found that it was all intact […]
Chennai, July 14 (BPNS) With manual scavenging still prevalent in several parts of Tamil Nadu and with reports of 43 people losing their lives (as per records of the state government in 2021)while engaging in manual scavenging, the state is formulating a new law against manual scavenging in the state. The Safai Karmachari Andolan, an […]
Chennai, June 28 (BPNS) Human rights organizations of Tamil Nadu led by the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Tamil Nadu chapter and some other NGOs are continuing their protest against the arrest of human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and retired DGP of Gujarat, R.B. Sreekumar by the Gujarat police. Protests were conducted in Chennai, […]
Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, June 28 With reporting of dowry harassment cases witnessing a staggering increase in the state, the government is planning to amend certain laws to curb the menace. As per sources, the plan is to amend the Kerala Dowry Prohibition Rules 2004, Kerala Service Rules, Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules, 2008, […]
Chennai, June 10 (BPNS) Suicides after losing money including on Thursday night by a 32-year-old woman have led to the Tamil Nadu government constituting a committee to provide recommendations in two weeks for the promulgation of an ordinance against playing online rummy. The government on Friday constituted a four-member committee headed by Justice (Rtd) Chandru […]
Ernakulam, June 7 (BPNS) The Kerala High Court, on Monday, issued a stay on the recent amendment to Kerala Education Rules (KER), which were introduced in April, for a month. A petition alleging that the amendments made to the KER, amount to a violation of the Right to Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, […]
Chennai, May 19 (BPNS) After the Supreme Court ordered the release of Rajiv Gandhi assasintation case convict, Perarivalan, the mother of Nalini, another convict expects that her daughter would be released soon. Speaking to BPNS, Padma Sankaranarayanan, the mother of the convict said that she expects her daughter to be free soon given the Supreme […]
New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) The Supreme Court Tuesday said the supervisory committee on the 126-year-old Mullaperiyar Dam can be asked to carry out all the statutory functions until a regular authority under the Dam Safety Act 2021 is established. The apex court made the suggestion after the Centre said the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) […]