Chennai, June 14 (BPNS) After 7 girls were rescued in a span of four days from the clutches of child marriage, the Krishnagiri district administration of Tamil Nadu has decided that it would act tough against the menace. The district administration has also said that they would be conducting awareness programme across the district to […]
Thiruvananthapuram, June 14 (BPNS) The state health department is planning to launch grass-root level awareness of the scrub typhus disease. This follows upon the assessment that lack of awareness coupled with a misconception about the disease has resulted in getting infected and sometimes loss of life. Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a […]
Chennai, June 14 (BPNS) A group of parents of a government-aided school in Keezha Kuthapanchan Village of Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu complained that they are not sending their children to school as some teachers of the school are putting pressure on the students to convert to Christianity. The Tamil Nadu educational department commenced a […]
Chennai, June 14 (BPNS) In another case of honour killing in Tamil Nadu, a person hacked to death his sister and her husband. The dastardly act took place at Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu on Monday evening. The deceased is Saranya (24) and her husband Mohan (31). Saranya who is a Dalit married […]
Chennai, June 14 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu police have summoned officials of two private hospitals in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh in a case related to the forceful sale of embryos of a 16-year-old girl at Erode. The mother of the girl, her lover, and an agent are under judicial custody. Police probe team have […]
Chennai, June 14 (BPNS) The biggest trade union of Southern Railway employees, Southern Railway Mazdoor Union (SRMU) on Tuesday conducted a protest against the handing over of express train routes to private players. The union in the protest march in front of the Erode railway junction said that the railways had identified 109 pairs of […]
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) As many as 459 Congress partymen, including 26 MPs and 5 legislators from different state Assemblies, were on Monday detained during Congress’ protest march in the national capital against the summon issued to Rahul Gandhi in connection with the National Herald case, a police officer said. “15 members of Lok Sabha, […]
Thiruvananthapuram, June 14 (IANS) In a first of its kind incident, angry CPI-M workers barged into the Congress state party headquarters here on Monday night and smashed advertisement materials and damaged a car even as veteran Congress leader A.K. Antony was present in the premises. Hearing about the attack, both the CPI-M and the Congress workers […]
Thiruvananthapuram, June 13 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is already facing heat after gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh accused him and his family of involvement, on Monday faced slogans inside the aircraft he was travelling in from his home town Kannur to the state capital. TV visuals show two people shouting slogans demanding […]
New Delhi, June 13 (BPNS) Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram suffered a fracture in his left rib after he was allegedly pushed by police during the party’s protest outside the Enforcement Directorate’s Delhi office on Monday. However, he tweeted that he was lucky to get away with only a suspected hairline crack. […]
