Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu medical council has advised registered medical doctors from the state not to issue certificates to strangers as several doctors have lost their license to practice after issuing certificates based on fake Id papers. The medical council in an advisory to doctors said that certificates issued by doctors were […]
Chennai, Feb 25 (IANS) With the Russian troops marching into the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv a Keralite doctor who has been living in the country since 1987 told IANS that the situation was grave. Dr. U.P.R Menon is a consultant with the Ministry of Health in Ukraine and head of the Indian Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Association is […]
Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) The issue regarding construction of a new mosque at Sarakar Mundy street in the Vellore district continues unresolved after mediatory talks between Hindu groups and Muslim groups could not reach a stalemate. The situation continues to be tense with heavy police personnel guarding the place. The issue snowballed into a major […]
Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Public Works Department (PWD) officials have walked out of a Supreme court-appointed sub-committee meeting expressing non-cooperation of Kerala forest officials. The meeting was held at Kumali in Kerala on Friday, sources in the Tamil Nadu PWD department told BPNS. The sub-committee comprises an official from the Central Water Commission […]
Chennai, Feb 24 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has in a letter to Union external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar called for an urgent intervention of the Government of India in the recurring issue of Indian fishermen mostly from Tamil Nadu with the Sri Lankan authorities. In the letter on Wednesday, the Tamil Nadu […]
Chennai, Feb 24 (BPNS) Tension continues in Sarkar Mandi street in Gandhi Road and a heavy police posse is present after a group of people belonging to the Hindu Munnai opposed the construction of a mosque at the area. The workers of the Hindu Munnani said that the mosque was built without proper permission and […]
Chennai, Feb 24 (BPNS) The extent of drubbing the AIADMK has faced in the urban local body polls can be understood over the fact that the only municipality which will be ruled by the opposition party is Sengottai out of the 138 municipalities in the state where elections were held. In Sengottai, out of the […]
Chennai, Feb 24 (BPNS) A day-long workshop to create awareness against human trafficking was conducted at Erode in Tamil Nadu on February 23 by the Rights Education and Development Centre (READ) with support from the US consulate, Chennai. The workshop was titled,” Frontline Defenders Against Trafficking in Persons in Tamil Nadu: Building Capacity of Community […]
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) Parents of students at higher educational institutions in Ukraine including medical colleges and engineering colleges from Tamil Nadu are worried over the missile and bomb attack carried out by Russia in Ukraine on Thursday. R. Vadivelu (45), a businessman from Madurai, whose daughter Amritha Sivam is a student of medicine at […]
Puducherry, Feb 24 (BPNS) The Mudalirapet police in Union Territory of Puducherry is in pursuit of two men accused of assaulting a journalist on Wednesday night. According to the police, T. Udayanarayanan, founder of a Puducherry-based Tamil daily was returning home after covering a few assignments on Wednesday night in his two-wheeler. Police said that […]
