Chennai, Dec 31 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu health department under the directions from Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has taken stringent measures during the festival time to prevent the spike in Covid -19 cases. The union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan had written a letter on Wednesday to Tamil Nadu health secretary, J. Radhakrishnan directing him to take […]
Coimbatore police arrests activists for protesting against RSS camp in private school
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) The Coimbatore police on Thursday arrested several activists including leaders of Thanthai Periyar Dravida Kazhagam( TPDK) Thursday, who had staged demonstrations against the RSS conducting a shakha and camp at the premises of a private school in the city. TPDK general secretary, K. Ramakrishnan while addressing the protest march said that […]
Chennai city police form two Serious Crime squads to curtail extortion, murders
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) Chennai city police have formed two Serious Crime Squads on Thursday under two Additional commissioners of police of the north and south zone. The Crime squad will be responsible to monitor known rowdies and history sheeters and preventing extortions and murders in the city. Each unit under the Additional commissioner will […]
10.8 lakh people benefitted from gold waiver scheme of Tamil Nadu, Minister
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu minister for cooperatives, I. Periyasami said that 10.18 lakh people have benefitted from the jewel waiver scheme of the government as per the poll promise of the DMK. The minister while speaking to reporters at Dindigul on Thursday said that the number of people who have taken loans against […]
Omicron surge: PMK urges TN government to cancel physical classes in schools and colleges.
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder leader, Dr. S.Ramadoss Thursday called upon the state government to direct schools and colleges to cancel physical classes and shift to online mode due to the surge in Omicron cases in the country. The PMK leader said that the increase in Covid -19 cases was an […]
Heavy Rains impound Chennai, three dead
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) Heavy rains in Chennai led to three deaths due to electrocution and four subways were shut down. Around 100 streets in Chennai city were waterlogged and the officials and employees of the Greater Chennai Corporation are at work to clear the water logging in the city. Tamil Nadu revenue and disaster […]
Seven-member team to investigate ill-treatment of temple jumbos in TN
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu forest department has constituted a special team of experts to investigate whether temple elephants in the state are being subject to harassment and whether these elephants are in a position to be held in captivity. The team constituted by the Chief Wild Life Warden of the Tamil Nadu […]
Chennai college student ends life citing insult by other college student gang
Chennai, Dec 30 (BPNS) A 21-year student of first-year MA course at Presidency College, Chennai, M. Kumar ended his life by jumping before a double-decker train on Tuesday night after sending an audio message to his friends and family that he was unable to bear the insult of a rival student gang of another college. […]
2 arrested in Udaipur with illicit liquor worth lakhs
Jaipur, Dec 29 Two men were arrested with illicit liquor with an estimated value of 45-50 lakh rupees in Udaipur district, police said Wednesday. The liquor was seized when it was allegedly being smuggled to Gujarat for a New Year party, they said. Udaipur Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said 853 boxes of Rajasthan-made illicit […]
EDMC panel rejects proposed increase in taxes in budget
New Delhi, Dec 29 The standing committee of the BJP-led East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday rejected a proposal in the EDMC budget, to increase property tax levied on residential and commercial properties, officials said. The move by the civic body’s panel, the highest decision-making body of the corporation, comes ahead of the civic polls […]



