Chennai, April 26(BPNS) The Chennai district collector has warned of strict action against private licensed bars if they violate the closure order issued by the government. The Tamil Nadu government has on Saturday issued orders that all private bars should remain shut from Monday. This was as part of the efforts to control the rise […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) Madras high court on Monday suggested complete lockdown in  Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on May 1 and May 2. The first bench of the high court of Chief justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said that the vehicles required for counting purposes and emergency services only be allowed on these two […]

Chennai, April 26(BPNS) Jawaharlal Institute of PostGraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) director, Dr Rakesh Aggarwal has in a statement denied the institute having conducted surgery on the wrong leg of a patient as alleged by some of the relatives of the patient. The director, in a statement said that an accident victim was admitted […]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 25(BPNS) The state is continuing with tough measures on Sunday also as the Covid cases are surging ahead with Saturday recording 26,685 fresh cases. Relaxations are provided only for essential services and public transport with restrictions being effected and police have taken cases against 5371 people for having violated the Covid protocols. 36 […]

Chennai, April 25(IANS) The Sunday lockdown turns effective in Tamil Nadu with people preferring to stay indoors and no vehicular movement across the state. Roads in Chennai wore a deserted look and police blocked the interior side roads of the city to prevent movement of vehicles and public. Police had conducted awareness across the state […]

Chennai, April 25(BPNS) The migrant workers of the Industrial hubs of  Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore and Tirupur are a divided lot returning back to their home town in the midst of the second wave of Covid -19. It is to be noted that Tiruppur has around 2.5 lakh migrant workers drawn from West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya […]

Chennai, April 25(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Sunday, wrote a letter to Prime minister Narendra Modi on the diversion of Oxygen produced in  TN to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states. Chief minister in his letter mentioned that with 1 lakh more active cases in Tamil Nadu the requirement of medical oxygen […]

Chennai, April 25(BPNS) The single day fresh Covid cases crossed 1000 in the Union Territory of Puducherry for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020. The UT reported 1008 fresh cases on Sunday and 476 patients recovered in the last twenty four hours.  24 new deaths were reported on Sunday […]

Chennai, April 25(BPNS) Chairman and Director of Chennai Super Kings, L Sabaretnam passes away at Chennai following a massive heart attack. He was 80 and survived by two daughters and two sons. He has headed the Chettinad Cement Corporation and was an independent director on the board of Indian Oil Corporation and Chennai Petroleum Corporation […]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 25(BPNS) The Kerala unit of the BJP is in a tight spot over allegations of a huge amount being transported from Kozhikode in North Kerala to Ernakulam allegedly for distribution to the party candidates on April 3, 2021 being waylaid and robbed. A person has filed a complaint before the Thrissur rural police […]