Villupuram tense after Anna statue found desecrated

Chennai, Sept 26 (BPNS) Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu is tense after hundreds of DMK workers shouted slogans and conducted protest marches in the city after a statue of DMK founder leader and former Chief Minister, C.N. Annadurai was found desecrated on Monday morning. A full size statue of C.N. Annadurai erected at Kandamangalam on […]

Madras HC calls for eradication of invasive species

Chennai, Sept 26 (BPNS) A special division bench of the Madras High Court on Monday, September 26 called for monthly progress reports from district collectors on the eradication of the exotic and invasive species,( seemai karuvelam) that is considered harmful to the ecology. The division bench of the Madras High Court comprising of Justices N. […]

Pullur check dam issue: TN water resources dept to take action

Chennai, Sept 26 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu water resources minister, S. Duraimurugan said that the state government would take necessary action in the Pullur check dam issue at the appropriate time. In a statement on Monday, the senior minister said that the state government has been keenly watching the cases relating to this issue pending before […]

Molotov cocktail attacks: TN police crackdown on PFI, SDPI cadres

Chennai, Sept 26 (BPNS) A day after the Tamil Nadu DGP, C.Sylendrakumar directed the district police chiefs and commissioners to take stringent action against those disrupting the peace, the state police is continuing to crackdown against the Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) cadres over the alleged Molotov cocktail […]

EPS opposes Andhra move to raise the capacity of Pullur dam

Chennai, Sept 25 (BPNS) AIADMK interim general secretary and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K. Palaniswami(EPS) have come out strongly against the Andhra Pradesh government’s move to raise the capacity of Pullur check dam near the Andhra, Tamil Nadu border by 2 TMC. The AIADMK leader in a statement on Sunday called upon […]

TN DGP convenes high level meeting of police officers

Chennai, Sept 25 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Director General of Police, C. Sylendra Babu has called for evoking National Security Act (NSA) against those disrupting public harmony. The statement of the DGP came after the increase in molotov cocktail attacks on the premises of RSS functionaries in various parts of Tamil Nadu following the arrest of Popular Front […]

JP Nadda lashes out against Kerala Government

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 25 (BPNS) BJP national president, J.P. Nadda who is on a two-day visit to Kerala has said that corruption has even reached the Kerala Chief Minister’s office. The BJP leader was referring to the gold smuggling scam that had rocked the state.  He was delivering the inaugural address of the Kottayam district committee […]