Chennai, Jan 7 (BPNS) The Government of Tamil Nadu is pushing for 13 wetlands to get the ‘Ramsar’ tag, a coveted international recognition for environmental conservation. Sources in the Tamil Nadu environment ministry told BPNS that the state government has already submitted the proposal to the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC). Of […]
Chennai, Jan 7 (BPNS) Opposition leader in the Tamil Nadu assembly and former Chief Minister, Edappady K. Palaniswami (EPS) has slammed the Chief Minister for not shutting down Tamil Nadu State Marketing Cooperation(Tasmac) shops even after Covid surge in the state. He said that the Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian had himself said that […]
Chennai, Jan 7 (BPNS) DMK leader and Member of Parliament from Madurai Lok Sabha constituency, Su Venkatesan has written a letter to the Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take action against Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) officials who had discriminated against non- Hindi medium candidates who had taken up the CA inter examinations […]
Chennai, Jan 7 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has welcomed the Supreme Court judgment on 27 percent reservation for Other backward classes for admission to All India Medical courses. He said that the DMK’s relentless struggle for the past several years in the courts and in political arena had fructified due to the […]
Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Thursday virtually flagged off the upgraded Puri-Hatia Tapaswini Express, fitted with Rajdhani-like coaches, from Bhubaneswar station. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan also graced the occasion over a video conference from New Delhi. Vaishnav said the railways decided to replace conventional coaches of the Puri-Hatia Tapaswini Express with […]
New Delhi, Jan 6 The navies of India, the US, Australia, Japan, Canada, and the Republic of Korea are participating in a mega anti-submarine warfare exercise in Guam in Western Pacific. The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said the exercise, ‘Sea Dragon 22’, is primarily focusing on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training and exercise. “Two US Navy […]
Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 Odisha government Thursday geared up to tackle a possible third wave of coronavirus as the caseload in the contagion has surged across the country and its variant Omicron has been detected in almost all the 30 districts of the state. State government offices will function with 50 per cent capacity from January […]
New Delhi, Jan 6 At least six ward councillors in two municipal corporations here have tested positive for COVID-19, sources said on Thursday. East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal was also diagnosed with coronavirus infection on Wednesday and he is currently under home isolation. Delhi is reporting a fresh surge in coronavirus cases, amid a […]
Lucknow, Jan 6 RLD president Jayant Chaudhary on Thursday met Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav here and had detailed discussions on the upcoming assembly elections which the two parties have decided to fight together. The RLD chief who reached here in the afternoon met the SP president for about two hours, a senior RLD leader […]
Ranchi, Jan 6 Jharkhand witnessed 3,704 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, up from 3,553 infections reported the previous day pushing the caseload in the disease to 3,65,222, a health department bulletin said. Five districts of the state accounted for majority of the new cases, as per the bulletin. Ranchi reported 1,309 fresh infections as against […]
