Chennai, Sept 7 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu forest and wildlife department are on high alert after several incidents of smuggling live Star tortoises were reported. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau of Tamil Nadu found that Star tortoises that were smuggled to Kolkotta in a train were recently confiscated and the arrested were from Chennai. According […]
Chennai, Sept 7 (BPNS) The Madurai bench of the Madras High directed the Tamil Nadu government to give proper counseling to teenage sexual offenders. The court called upon the state government to bring up a mechanism wherein counseling is given to teenagers who are involved in sexual offenses. The division bench of the Madurai bench […]
Chennai, Sept 7 (BPNS) AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K. Palaniswami said that ten DMK MLA’s were in touch with his camp to switch sides to the AIADMK. He however refuted rumours that AIADMK legislators were not switching sides to the DMK. He accused DMK as a family-run political party […]
Thiruvananthapuram, September 7 (BPNS) Very soon each school in the state will have a ‘warrior’. This warrior’s job will be to identify those who fall victim to drug and substance abuse in their respective schools and spearhead awareness programme against drugs. In the first phase, 1000 warriors will be employed with this task. The initiative […]
Thiruvananthapuram, September 6 (BPNS) The state has finally constituted an expert committee to enquire and submit a report on the cause of deaths due to dog bites. The seven-member expert committee chaired by Dr Thomas Mathew, director of medical education (DME) has been asked to submit the report at the earliest. The committee has also […]
Chennai, Sept 6 (BPNS) The ruling DMK is set to celebrate the month of September as a Dravidian month. The party has decided to celebrate in this manner as the ideologues of the Dravidian movement, E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar and C.N. Anandurai were born this month and the anniversary of the party launch is also this […]
Chennai, Sept 6 (BPNS) Even as the ruling DMK is vouching for its ideology of social justice and equality and celebrating September as Dravidian month, the ground reality is something different. A temple in Tiruchi district of Tamil Nadu and falling under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) has drawn flak over not allowing […]
Chennai, Sept 6 (BPNS) In a bid to improve the English speaking skills of students, the Greater Chennai Corporation(GCC) has directed the schools under it to conduct Wednesday morning meetings for students of Classes 6 to 9th in English. According to a recent study conducted by the GCC, it was found that many of the students […]
Chennai, Sept 6 (BPNS) Justice M. Duraiswamy will assume office as the acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court from September 13. This is following the superannuation of the present Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari on September 12. The Union ministry of law and justice notified the appointment of Justice […]
Chennai, Sept 6, (BPNS) The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its statement said that the state tops in the number of murders of older people in the year 2021. According to the NCRB records, 191 people aged above 60 were killed in Tamil Nadu during the year 2021. Maharashtra clocked second on the number […]
