Chennai, Sept 22 (IANS) Puducherry will have local body polls in three phases from October 21 to October 28 after a gap of fifteen years. The previous elections were held in 2006 and the period ended after five years in 2011. The announcement was made by the Puducherry State Election Commissioner, Roy P. Thomas in […]
Chennai, Sept 22 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu state election commission has given a directive to the district collectors of the nine districts where rural local body elections are to be held to take stringent action on the possibilities of “auction” of president post. Auctioning of posts of village panchayath presidents and panchayath union ward councilors […]
Puducherry, Sept 22(BPNS) BJP leader and former legislator,S. Selvaganabathy will become the first Member of Parliament of the saffron party from the Union Territory of Puducherry. The BJP leader filed his nomination papers on Wednesday, an hour before the concluding time of filing of nomination papers. He will be elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha. […]
Chennai, Sept 21 (BPNS) Two DMK leaders Kanimozhi NVM Somu and KRN Rajesh Kumar have filed nomination papers for the two vacant seats to Rajya Sabha. The elections are to be held on October 4 and with the floor strength in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly, victory for both the DMK candidates is a foregone […]
Chennai, Sept 19 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu State Election commission has directed the district collectors of the nine districts where rural local body elections are taking place on October 6 and October 9 to conduct strict monitoring to prevent bribing voters. This was after a woman, Ponsheela, who was contesting for the post of Perampathu […]
Puducherry, Sept 19 (BPNS) The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is divided in the Union Territory of Puducherry over the lone Rajya Saba seat with the BJP, All India NR Congress, and the AIADMK vying for the seat. The elections to the lone Rajya Sabha seat is scheduled to take place on October 4 in […]
Chennai, Sept 19(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin announced that the state government would take care of the expenses of those students who have been admitted to professional and other courses under the 7.5% government school students quota. He was speaking at a function organized at the Anna University campus to provide allotment letters […]
Chennai, Sept 19(BPNS) Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) is planning to conduct protest marches against National Eligibility Cum Entrance Examination (NEET). The party leader and Member of Parliament, Thol Thiruvmavalavan while speaking to IANS said that NEET has taken the lives of several students including three the current academic year and social workers and political leaders […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 17 (BPNS) Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President K. Sudhakaran MP has said that the party would convene a meeting of religious heads to smoothen the tempers over the Pala Bishop Joseph Kallarangat’s statement that Christian children should be guarded against Narcotic Jihad that is been pushed among the children by a specific […]
Chennai, Sept 19(bpNS) Tamil Nadu health minister, Ma Subramanian has said that the Coimbatore district topped in vaccinating the highest percentage of the eligible population against Covid 19. He was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the second mega vaccination camp at Pollachi on Sunday. The health minister said that Coimbatore district was leading in the […]
