Chennai, Sept 9 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has sent a letter to the Union minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal urging him to take measures to ban the import of single-use plastic cigarette lighters. He also called for stringent action against the illegal imports of plastic cigarette lighters. In the letter, […]
Chennai, Sept 9(BPNS) Three college students drowned to death of Friday morning after the pickup van in which they were traveling lost control and plunged into a well that was 120 feet in depth. The incident occurred at Thondamathur in Coimbatore district on Friday morning. Tamil Nadu fire and rescue department and local police are engaged […]
Chennai, Sept 9( BPNS) The Madras High court on Friday directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to take a relook into an office memorandum issued by it on February 3 regarding the fee structure for deemed to be universities and self-financing medical colleges. It is to be noted that NMC had on February 3 issued […]
Chennai, Sept 9(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco) will be calling tenders for laying underground cables near four major temples of the state. Underground cables will be laid at Tiruvarur, Suchindram, Madurai, and Srivilliputhur temples. It is to be noted that Tamil Nadu minister for Electricity, Senthil Balaji has recently said that […]
Chennai, Sept 9(BPNS) Tamil Nadu idol wing traced three bronze idols stolen from Soundararaja Perumalkovil village temple near Kumbakonam 60 years ago have been traced from museums and auction houses in the United States. It may be noted that on February 12, 2020, Ka Raja, Executive officer of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) […]
Puducherry, Sept 9( BPNS) Fishermen in Puducherry have objected to the construction of a fishing harbour at the mouth of Then Pennai River as severe coastal erosion has commenced along the southern coast of Puducherry. According to people residing in the fishing villages of Moolavalli and Pudukuppam, the sand has started eroding heavily in the […]
Chennai, Sept 9 (BPNS) The BJP has taken a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly wearing a costly T-shirt during his ‘Bharath Jodo Yatra’ that commenced from Kanniyakumari on Wednesday. BJP in a tweet said,” Bharat, deko (India look),” and posted two photos, one of Rahul wearing the TShirt and the other showing […]
Chennai, Sept 7 (BPNS) The Coimbatore municipal corporation sealed two micro-industrial units that were allegedly operating without a license. The units were functioning in TVS Nagar, Coimbatore. The units were shut down after complaints had come up that the units were creating environmental pollution. The owners however alleged that the civic officials did not conduct […]
Chennai, Sept 7 (BPNS) The leadership tussle in the main opposition party of Tamil Nadu, AIADMK has reached the Supreme Court with the party leader and former Chief Minister, O. Panneerselvam (OPS) moving the apex court against a September 2 judgment of the Madras High Court division bench. It is to be noted that a […]
Chennai, Sept 7 (BPNS) With the increased discharge of water from Mettur dam in Salem, a flood alert has been sounded in the banks of the Kollidaam river in Cuddalore. An alert has been sounded across the banks of River Kollidam as water has been discharged at the rate of 90,000 cusecs from the Mettur dam. […]
