Chennai, April 15(BPNS) The government of Tamil Nadu has informed the Madras High court on Thursday that no student will be promoted without taking online examination. The government had earlier took a position that arrear exams will be cancelled in view of the Covid 19 pandemic and has now taken a diametrically opposite stand before […]

Chennai, April 15(BPNS) A division bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday stayed its order directing the Chennai corporation to exhume the body of Dr Simon Hercules who died of Covid 19 from a burial ground at Velangudu and to rebury it at a cemetery at Kilpauk as requested by the family. The bench  […]

Chennai, April 15(BPNS) Traders and Vendors of several towns of Tamil Nadu were expecting to make for the losses of 2020 when lockdown had made it impossible to conduct temple festivals. However with the second wave of the pandemic hitting Tamil Nadu, government has already brought in restrictions on the number of people participating in […]

Chennai, April 13(BPNS) Two people were arrested after 4.8 crore rupees worth demonetised notes were seized from their procession. The incident took place at Kalayarkoil, Sivaganga on Monday. Police said that they had raided the premises of a Physiotherapist, A Arul Chinnaparaj after a tip off that demonetised notes are being changed hands. On interrogation, […]

Chennai, April 13(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Governor Bhanwarilal Purohit and Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami extended their Ugadi wishes to the people of Tamil Nadu. AIADMK leader and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam also extended his wishes to the people on the auspicious day of Ugadi. The Governor in his address said, “On the auspicious occasion […]

Chennai to have 13 Covid care centres with 11,775 beds by month end Chennai,April 13(BPNS) With the Covid cases surging ahead, the Greater Chennai Corporation will be implanting 13 new Covid care centres across the city with 11,775 beds. The corporation also plans to create more awareness on sanitization, masks and safe distance among the […]

Chennai, April 13(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission has issued notice to Coimbatore city police commissioner over a police official assaulting  people at an eatery including the staff as well as customers. It may be recalled that Kattur (Coimbatore) Sub Inspector, S Muthu had assaulted customers and employees of the restaurant charging that […]

Chennai, April 13(BPNS) Folk artists across Tamil Nadu continued their protest for the second day on Tuesday over restrictions on temple festivals amid Covid surge. The  demand of the folk artists is that the festivals must be allowed to function with a  cap on the number of people participating. The artists were expecting a good […]

Chennai, April 13(BPNS) With the elections over on April 6 and the long wait to counting on May 2 ,the main political parties of Tamil Nadu are leaving no stone unturned and are watching the strong rooms which house Electronic Voting Machines at counting centres. Each political party has appointed agents in turn to watch […]

Chennai, April 13(BPNS) With the Covid 19 cases surging there is an increase in the number of containment zones in Chennai where there is a huge increase in the number of patients. Chennai corporation has decided to classify each street with more than 3 active cases as a containment zone. There are 210 streets with […]