Chennai, April 23( BPNS) Vineetha Nambiar is a Keralite settled in Valasaravakkam,Chennai since the past few years and is running a unique venture – a rare one of its kind – polishing old metallic wares to make it glitter and turn brand new. Her venture, “Shine O Shine” polishes rare antiques which are painstakingly collected […]

Chennai, April 23(BPNS) As part of containing the second wave of Covid ,the Union Territory of Puducherry has banned the sale of all liquor including arrack ,toddy and Indian Made Foreign Liquor(IMFL) in bars and toddy shops from 2pm onwards from April 26 to 30th. A circular issued by Deputy Commissioner (Excise) T Sudhakar also […]

Chennai, April 23(BPNS) The Greater Chennai Corporation has failed to achieve the target of 60,000 vaccines a day it has set for itself with the people not showing much interest to inoculate themselves.  The corporation has conducted a webinar on Tuesday which carried all aspects of vaccination and it was to allay the fear of […]

Chennai, April 23(BPNS) Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has requested Prime minister Narendra Modi for 20 lakh doses of vaccine for the state. This is at least 10 days vaccine in advance for the state so that vaccination drive is not effected. Chief minister in a letter to Prime minister Narendra Modi said […]

Chennai, April 22(BPNS) The health officials of Tamil Nadu are contemplating stringent measures to contain Covid spread with travel restrictions looming large. Chennai and adjoining four districts  Chengalpettu, Kancheepuram, Tiruvalluvar and Coimbatore accounted for 50% of the fresh Covid cases of Tamil Nadu. The health officials are seriously contemplating the possibility of enforcing travel restrictions […]

Chennai, April 22(BPNS) As Tamil Nadu’s fresh cases touched 11,681 with 53 deaths, Tamil Nadu core Covid panel will meet on Thursday to discuss on future strategy to contain the pandemic.  Tamil Nadu health secretary, scientists and district collectors will be part of the Core committee meet which is likely to meet virtually on Thursday. […]

Chennai, April 22(BPNS) With major railway stations in Tamil Nadu including Chennai, Trichy, Coimbatore ,Madurai and Jholarpet showing a slow but steady increase of guest workers, the Southern Railway has decided to operate more trains to North and North Eastern states. M Kamalanathan, an officer with Southern Railway while speaking to BPNS said, “The guest […]

Chennai, April 22(BPNS) The first bench of the Madras High court comprising Chief justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy took suo moto notice on news paper reports about transfer of Oxygen cylinders from Tamil Nadu to other states even as TN is reeling under Covid surge. The high court division bench also asked the […]

Chennai, April 22(BPNS) With Covid on the surge and the daily cases in the state touching around 11,500 the political parties have called upon their cadres to become health volunteers. While the BJP has a miniscule presence in the state, the RSS has a strong cadre work force and has deputed its cadres to create […]

Chennai, April 22(BPNS) The major opposition political parties of Tamil Nadu including DMK, AMMK and MNM and IUML have come out strongly against the  Central government and the state government led by AIADMK in handling the Covid crisis. DMK president MK Stalin said that the Central government had failed miserably in handling the Covid crisis […]