Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) and the Chennai City Police have increased the number of flying squads from 45 to 90 to check the distribution of money and gifts ahead of urban polls. There are 200 wards under 15 zones in Chennai corporation. Flying squads are given directives to seize money […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Public Health department will undertake testing of people at all crowded places including bus stations, railway stations, markets, and even beaches for Covid -19. This is a shift from the earlier guidelines issued by the Department of Public Health (DPH) to test contacts of positive people who have […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The former interim general secretary of the AIADMK, V.K. Sasikala who was also the close aide of the late Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, j. Jayalalithaa is keeping a studied silence in the run-up to the Urban local body polls.Speculations are rife in political and journalistic circles of Tamil Nadu, that […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O. Pannerselvam has urged Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin to oppose the ‘Away from Reactor’ project coming up at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tirunelveli district of the state. In a statement on Wednesday, the former Chief Minister asked Stalin to take […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The Central Crime Branch (CCB), Job racket wing, of Tamil Nadu police arrested four people for cheating gullible youths promising them jobs in Airports and other central government undertakings and swindling money. The arrested are K. Kiran (41) of Pozhichallur, his wife Sherly Sangeetha (35), S. Palinivelu (35) of Kovilambakam, and […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The state secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), K. Balakrishnan has said that the DMK led front will win handsomely in the Urban local body elections to be held on February 19. Addressing media persons at Dindigul on Wednesday, the senior leader said that the AIADMK was not only […]
Chennai, Feb 16( BPNS) Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu State Election commission officials to remove all the posters pasted on walls in Chennai by the candidates contesting Urban local body elections. The first bench of the Madras High Court comprising of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government is to commence a massive drive to remove the encroachments from water bodies in the state spread across 9800 hectares. This was after the Madras High Court had expressed displeasure over a large number of water bodies being encroached upon in the state. The state government has […]
Chennai. Feb 15 (BPNS) The recent bird surveys done in Tamil Nadu have thrown up the presence of several nearly threatened bird species as also birds that are categorized as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These were the findings in the inland wetland survey conducted by the state wildlife department […]
Chennai, Feb 15 (BPNS) The Indian Neutrino Observatory project (INO) coming up in Theni district of Tamil Nadu has gained momentum after the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has given its ‘ no- objection’ to build the project inside the Tiger corridor in Theni. The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) which is one of […]
