TN Police officer draws flak for asking gender certificate from renowned athlete
Chennai, Feb 28 (BPNS) An assistant commissioner of Tamil Nadu police has drawn flak for asking gender certificate from renowned athletes from the state Santhi Soundararajan. The athlete who won 12 international medals for the country was appointed as a woman athletic coach in the Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority. Santhi Soundararajan had alleged caste-based […]
DMK youth wing for doubling its membership by 2024
Chennai, Feb 28 (BPNS) The youth wing of the DMK has decided to double its membership by 2024 before the loksabha elections. A recent meeting of the youth wing office bearers held at the party headquarters in Chennai under the leadership of Udayanidhi Stalin has chalked out the strategy for doubling the membership, according to […]
PMK for a major restructuring of the party :Post-Urban polls
Chennai, Feb 28 (BPNS) The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) is for a major restructuring of the party with units in all the wards of the state. Party founder leader Dr. S. Ramadoss in a series of meetings from Saturday has directed the party district secretaries and other state leaders to work hard in the ground […]
DMK’s thumping win in Urban polls due to EVM malpractice, Edappadi Palaniswami
Chennai, Feb 28 (BPNS) AIADMK coordinator and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K.Palaniswami has made a serious allegation that the ruling DMK won the recent urban local body elections due to massive malpractices in the Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs). The AIADMK leader was addressing a political meeting of the party at Salem in […]
Puducherry CM appeals to central government to airlift UT students from Ukraine
Puducherry, Feb 28 (BPNS) Puducherry Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy has in a letter to the Union External affairs minister, S. Jaishankar appealed to the Government of India to airlift students from the territory who are stranded in war-torn Ukraine. The Chief Minister in the letter said that 23 students from the Union territory were stranded […]
DMK heavyweights take sides in tussle for Madurai Mayor post
Chennai, Feb 28 (BPNS) With the indirect elections to the post of Mayor taking place on March 4th, the tussle for the coveted posts is on in Madurai. The seat is reserved for women and senior DMK leaders have thrown their weight behind the candidates. The DMK led alliance had won 80 of 100 seats […]
Rahul Gandhi releases Stalin’s autobiography ‘Ungalil Oruvan’
Chennai, Feb 28 (BPNS ) Congress leader and former AICC president, Rahul Gandhi released the first part of the autobiography of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin, ‘ Ungalil Oruvan’ (One among You). The first copy of the book was received by senior DMK leader and Tamil Nadu waterworks minister, S. Duraimurugan. Kerala Chief Minister […]
Panneerselvam wants Stalin to take steps to avoid blasts in firecracker units killing people
Chennai, Feb 27 (BPNS) AIADMK chief coordinator and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O. Panneerselvam has called upon the Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to initiate steps to prevent blasts in firecracker units in the state. In a statement on Saturday, the former Chief Minister said that 12 people were killed in firecracker unit explosions […]
Allungal Sreedharan: Naxalite leader who went underground for fifty years passed away
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 27 (BPNS) Comrade Allungal Sreedharan who was a hero of the Pulpally police station attack on November 24, 1968, along with Comrades Vargheese, Philip M. Prasad, and K. Ajitha passed away on Friday in the Idukki district of Kerala. Sreedharan had changed his name as Mavady Thankappan and was living in the high […]