Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) In a survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF), it was shockingly found that many Dalit panchayat presidents in the state were not even allowed a chair in their office. The survey found that in 22 out of the 386 panchayaths surveyed, Dalit presidents were not provided chairs. […]
Thiruvananthapuram, August 11 (BPNS) The Kerala government has declared a war against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and in the first round, it seems, it got mixed results from the Kerala High Court. While former state finance minister TM Thomas Isaac evoked a favorable oral remark from a single bench, the public interest litigation (PIL) filed […]
Thiruvananthapuram, August 11 (BPNS) The police have arrested a woman on charges of torturing a sixth-standard student. The arrestee happens to be the victim’s second mother and is also an Asha worker of Chittattukara grama panchayath in Ernakulam. The arrest follows after the girl revealed her ordeal to the school authorities after some teachers expressed […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), the Dalit political party has said that it would conduct protest marches on August 13 alleging that the police were targeting Dalits in the Kallakurich incident of July in which a private school was ransacked and school buses and police vehicles torched after a Class XI […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) AIADMK leader and Member of Parliament CVe Shanmugham petitioned Madras High Court requesting a CBI investigation into the ransacking of party office on July 11, the day of the General council meeting of the party. Madras High court on Thursday ordered notice to the Greater Chennai Police on the plea from […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu police have beefed up security for the US Consulate in Chennai and a Jewish settlement in Dindigul after central intelligence agencies have given an alert. This is following the killing of Al Qaeda chief Ayman al- Zawahiri in a US drone attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 31. […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Global Tiger Summit to be held in Chennai from October 17 to 19 by the Tamil Nadu government in association with the Union Government is likely to be postponed to April. Sources in the Tamil Nadu forest department told IANS that the event is likely to be pushed to April […]
Chennai, Aug 10( BPNS) Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against transfer of 1000 crocodiles from Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT) to Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (GZRRC). The division bench of the Madras High Court comprising of Chief Justice, Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N. Mala dismissed the […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has directed authorities to act strongly against those selling drugs and to seize their properties. He called upon the officers to be more vigilant near educational institutions. He was speaking at a meeting of top police officials and senior police officers with an agenda to […]
Puducherry, Aug 10 (BPNS) In a first-of-its-kind development, the Puducherry legislative assembly which commenced for the budget session, adjourned sine die after the address of the Lt. Governor, Dr. Tamilisai Sounderarajan. During the address, the Lt Governor said that the Union Territory government had incurred an expenditure of Rs 9793.29 crores against the total outlay […]
