Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has announced a solatium of Rs 20 lakhs to the family of the soldier, Lakshmanan. D (24) was killed in an encounter with terrorists at Pargal in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. The mortal remains of Lakshmanan are expected to arrive at his […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a lawyer against the state government over its insistence on wearing masks. Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N. Mala passed the orders on the petition filed by Advocate S.V. Ramamurthy who claimed that wearing masks had […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for appreciating Tamil Nadu for the successful hosting of the Chess Olympiad. Modi had in a social media post immediately after the conclusion of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad on Tuesday appreciated Tamil Nadu government for the excellent host it […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu forest department on Thursday detected two wild elephant carcasses in the forest area of Erode. The elephants, according to forest department officials died of old age. While one elephant was aged 50, the second one was aged 40. Forest department officials during routine patrol found the carcass at […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Madras High Court on Thursday quashed a First Information Report (FIR) against Tamil actor Suriya and Director of Jai Bhim movie, T.S. Gganavel. The FIR was registered at the Velachery police station, Chennai for allegedly hurting the sentiments of the Vanniyar community by portraying it in a bad light in […]
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 […]
