Police arrest DMK man over derogatory posts on Hindu gods
Chennai, Aug 21 (BPNS) The Dindigul police on Sunday arrested a member of the ruling DMK IT wing for derogatory posts on Hindu gods including Lord Sreekrishna. The arrested Lokesh Karthick is an active worker of the DMK and an activist of its IT wing from Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu. The BJP Dindigul district […]
TN police arrest 21-year-old youth for raping, impregnating minor girl
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) Police in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu arrested a 21-year-old youth for raping and impregnating a Class XI student who is sixteen years old. According to the Tiruchi police, the youth and the girl were in love. The youth, Prathap was a final year student of a Private college and the girl was […]
Mixed results on day one against ED
Thiruvananthapuram, August 11 (BPNS) The Kerala government has declared a war against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and in the first round, it seems, it got mixed results from the Kerala High Court. While former state finance minister TM Thomas Isaac evoked a favorable oral remark from a single bench, the public interest litigation (PIL) filed […]
Ayman al- Zawahiri killing: TN police beefs up security for US consulate, Western missions
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu police have beefed up security for the US Consulate in Chennai and a Jewish settlement in Dindigul after central intelligence agencies have given an alert. This is following the killing of Al Qaeda chief Ayman al- Zawahiri in a US drone attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 31. […]
Coimbatore police on high alert after drug peddlers use novel methods for sale
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) The Coimbatore city police is on high alert after the drug peddlers in the city have taken new methods to push the drug in the city, especially among students in colleges and even schools. Sources in Coimbatore police told BPNS that the drug peddlers are selling ‘Ganja’ in chocolate form which […]
Nitish Kumar making false allegations against BJP, says Sushil Modi
Patna, Aug 9 (IANS) With Nitish Kumar jettisoning the BJP and all set to become Bihar Chief Minister at the head of the Mahagatbandhan, BJP Rajya Sabha member and his former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday termed his allegations against his party as “lies”. “Nitish Kumar leveled serious allegations on BJP that […]
Curious case of Kerala Police’s X Cell
Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, August 9 Ever heard about the Kerala Police’s X Cell unit? Since its inception in 2020, it was only once that this unit’s name got mentioned at the government level. In the Cabinet briefing of August 3, the government confirmed the existence of such a unit as it decided to scrap […]
Chennai police begins driving training to 15 juvenile first-time offenders
Chennai, Aug 9 (BPNS) The Greater Chennai Police has commenced a 30-day driving training programme for 15 juveniles who were involved in first-time offences. They are being given driving training at the Institute of Road Transport (IRT) in Taramani and 50 days in Tiruvallur. The training for the first-time offenders who are juveniles is part […]
TN police arrest father of minor whose driving led to death of child
Chennai, Aug 9 (BPNS) The Vriddachalam police in Tamil Nadu arrested the father of a minor boy on charges of abetment in an accident that led to the death of a two and half-year-old girl at Vijayamananagaram, Vriddachalam on Monday. The child was killed by a speeding two-wheeler while she was playing in front of […]