Chennai, May 3(BPNS)  K Shanmugham, advisor to Chief minister of Tamil Nadu and former Chief secretary of the state resigned from the post following the election results.  Shamugham who was appointed to the post of Advisor to the Chief minister  Edappadi K Palaniswami put in his papers on Monday to the Chief secretary, Rajeev Ranjan. […]

Chennai, May 3(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Governor Bhanwarilal Purohit on Monday accepted the resignation of Chief minister Edappady K Palaniswami and dissolved the 15th  legislative assembly. The Governor requested Chief Minister Edappady K Palaniswami to continue till alternate arrangements are made. In the elections to the Tamil Nadu assembly DMK led front had defeated the AIADMK led […]

Thiruvananthapuram, May 1(BPNS) Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR),  research think tank has in a study found that Kerala is heading for a photo finish. A post poll survey conducted by the organization across the state found that the state is poised for a photo finish. The survey ,according to CPPR was conducted between April […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) Amidst the government taking several pro active measures including awareness on wearing of masks, social distancing and usage of sanitisers, there seems to be no respite for Covid cases in the state of Tamil Nadu. On Friday , the state recorded 18692 fresh cases with 113 deaths. Chennai with 42 deaths reported […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) People who stand in long queues at Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai from morning 8 am to 5pm for Remdesivir drug are returning empty handed cursing their fate. The counters at Kilpauk medical college closes by 5 pm each day and there are heated exchanges between the people in the queue and the […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) Acute shortage of doctors, nurses and paramedics are leading to hospitals allowing by-standers and attenders to sit  by the bed side of patients admitted to Covid wards including Intensive Care Units(ICU’s). Even at Government hospitals, which are converted into Covid wards, relatives of patients are allowed to sit by the bed side […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government has constituted a seven member panel to monitor the Vedanta Oxygen plant at Tuticorin as per the orders of the Supreme Court of India to supervise the entire production of Oxygen at the Vedanta’s Sterlite plant premises. The seven member team constituted by the Government comprises of the […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner ,G Prakash has said that vaccination has led to control of Covid among front line workers. The commissioner in a release on Saturday said that this is a strong case as to why people should take Covid vaccination.  Of the 60,000 to 70,000 frontline workers in the city […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements for counting at the Union Territory of Puducherry. The counting will commence at 8 am and will be conducted in three phases. The election commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and the results will be announced in […]

Chennai, May 1(BPNS) The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements for counting at the Union Territory of Puducherry. The counting will commence at 8 am and will be conducted in three phases. The election commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and the results will be announced in […]