Second airport at Chennai: TN delegation to meet minister

Chennai, June 16 (BPNS) A Tamil Nadu delegation led by state industries minister, Thangam Thenarasu, and comprising of officials will meet the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia in New Delhi on June 17th, Friday. The delegation is to discuss with the Union minister the improvement of civil aviation facilities in the state with special […]

India helping Sri Lanka fight economic crisis: Union Minister

Chennai, June 16 (BPNS) Union Minister of state for external affairs and senior leader of BJP, V. Muraleedharan has said that India is helping Sri Lanka fight its economic crisis. The Union minister was addressing the students of Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore on Thursday. He said that the Union government had […]

Kerala CPM MP lashes out against Agnipath recruitment

Thiruvananthapuram, June 16 (BPNS) Member of Rajya Sabha and former national president of Student Federation of India (SFI), the student body of the CPM, Dr. V. Sivadasan said that the contractual recruitment in defense forces like ‘Agnipath’ will result in reducing these youths to the status of mercenaries. In a letter to the Union defense […]

Covid : State launches six-day vaccination drive as cases shot up

Thiruvananthapuram, June 15 (BPNS) With the state’s Covid-19 case graph registering a steep increase, the health department has decided to focus on improving the vaccination coverage. As a first step, it has decided to organize a six-day vaccination campaign to boost the precaution dose coverage. The campaign will get kick-started on Thursday. The department has […]

Pilot error results in Lulu chairman’s helicopter accident

Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, June 14 The Civil Aviation Department has held the pilots responsible for the helicopter crash landing incident that occurred at Kochi on April 11, 2021. The helicopter that got crash-landed on a marshy land was carrying businessman MA Yusuf Ali, his wife, and two others who then escaped unhurt. The department’s […]