Chennai, Oct 6 (BPNS) Farmers and vegetable traders of Coimbatore MGR market have complained that they are paying high tolls for entry into the market but are provided poor facilities. They alleged that the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) has violated norms in awarding the maintenance contract at the Mettupalayam MGR market. The CCMC has, […]
Chennai, Oct 6 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin announced a new welfare board for the Tamil people living abroad. The Chief Minister in a statement here on Wednesday said that the Tamil Nadu Non-Resident Welfare Act was enacted during the period of the previous DMK government on March 1, 2011. Stalin’s father Kalaignar […]
Chennai, Oct 6 (BPNS) While the first phase of the rural local body polls in Tamil Nadu concluded with no untoward incidents except for some small skirmishes, the residents of Ammundi panchayath in Vellore district boycotted the elections. The boycott was due to the panchayath president post being reserved for SC women. No person voted […]
Chennai, Oct 6 (BPNS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a former member of the intelligence wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from Tamil Nadu . The arrest was following the seizure of a Sri Lankan boat, Ravihansi on March 18 this year with 3000 crores worth of drugs and 5 […]
Chennai, Oct 5(BPNS) Nine fishermen from Nagercoil who were in an Iran jail for the past nineteen months have reached back Chennai on Monday. The fishermen were arrested by the Iranian Coast Guard after they have allegedly waded into the Iran territorial waters while they were engaged in fishing. The fishermen, Albert Ravi, Dynas, Godwin […]
Chennai, Oct 5 (BPNS) Madras High Court will hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a Chennai-based animal rights group against the hunting down of the killer tiger at Gudallore on Tuesday. The first bench of the Madras High Court comprising of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P.D. Adikesavalu will hear the petition […]
Chennai, Oct 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu State election commissioner, S. Palanikumar is conducting virtual meeting of officials of all the nine districts where the first phase of rural local body polls are being held on October 6, Wednesday. The rural local body polls are being conducted in two phases on October 6 and October […]
Chennai, Oct 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu health department is to increase fogging and other methods to control the multiplication of mosquitos as dengue cases are on the rise in the state. The state health minister Ma Subramanian had on Monday met officials of the health department and directed officers to take measures for the […]
Chennai, Oct 5 (BPNS) The first bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the state forest department not to go for the kill of the elusive MDT23 tiger immediately. The court was responding to a Public Interest Litigation filed by an animal rights group, People for Cattle in India (PFCI). The animal rights […]
Chennai, Oct 5 (BPNS) The AIADMK campaign in the rural local body polls mainly revolved around former Chief Minister, late J. Jayalalithaa with the belief that her charisma and administrative prowess would carry the party win in the electoral hustings. In Tenkasi, Kannappan( 43) who is a candidate of the AIADMK in the rural local […]
