Chennai, Sept 14 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu forest officials are interrogating four people who were held by the Naxalite Special Division of the Erode district police. The Special police team received a tip-off that tusks were being smuggled to Karnataka from Bagur hills. The team held K. Chandrashekar ( 45) of Kavundapadi with four tusks in a […]
Chennai, Sept 14 (BPNS) Six Hindu Munnai workers were arrested after they ransacked an eatery named after Dravidian ideologue and social reformer, ‘Thanthai Periyar’. The eatery owner Prabakaran in his complaint before the police said that the eatery was to be opened on Wednesday but the miscreants reached the premises on Tuesday evening and destroyed […]
Chennai, Sept 13 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu idol wing police have commenced investigation into the French connection after 20 idols were recovered from the residence of a French citizen from Auroville in Puducherry. The idol wing has acted on a tip that a shop selling antique materials was dealing with stolen artifacts from Tamil Nadu. The […]
Chennai, Sept 11 (BPNS) Two police stations in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, Tindivanam and Brammadesam have received ISO: 9005 certifications. The stations have garden, reception, mini library, and surveillance camera system. The certification document of ISO: 9005 states that the record in enforcement of laws, prevention, detection and investigation of crimes, maintenance of law […]
Chennai, Sept 9(BPNS) Tamil Nadu idol wing traced three bronze idols stolen from Soundararaja Perumalkovil village temple near Kumbakonam 60 years ago have been traced from museums and auction houses in the United States. It may be noted that on February 12, 2020, Ka Raja, Executive officer of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) […]
Thiruvananthapuram, September 7 (BPNS) Very soon each school in the state will have a ‘warrior’. This warrior’s job will be to identify those who fall victim to drug and substance abuse in their respective schools and spearhead awareness programme against drugs. In the first phase, 1000 warriors will be employed with this task. The initiative […]
Chennai, Sept 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu idol wing police have traced a Natarajar idol stolen 62 years ago from Vedapureeswar temple, Thanjavur to the Asia Society Museum in New York. The idol wing received a complaint on September 1, 2022 from a 60 year old man, S. Veniktachalam stating that miscreants had broke open […]
Chennai, Sept 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu special police team has commenced a detailed investigation into the arrest of 13 Sri Lankan Tamils arrested from Kollam, Kerala on Monday morning. Special police teams including sleuths from the elite ‘Q’ branch of the Tamil Nadu police are in Kollam to interrogate those who are under the […]
Chennai, Sept 1 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu police have constituted a special police team to investigate into the attack on AIADMK headquarters on July 11. According to the complaint filed by the Edappadi K. Palaniswami faction of the party,a group led by O. Panneerselvam had ransacked the office and taken away several valuable documents from […]
Chennai, Aug 31 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Idol wing police are probing into the background of two 300-year-old idols seized from an Anna Nagar residence in Chennai following tip-offs. The idols, according to the police are worth crores of rupees. A senior officer with the Tamil Nadu idol wing told BPNS that the bronze statues […]
