Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) A four-year-old girl was killed by a leopard in The Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred in a private tea estate in Arakadu near Mynala. The 4-year-old girl identified as K. Sharidha is the daughter of migrant workers from Assam and forest department officials said that […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) A Class XII girl student of a government school in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu died in the classroom on Wednesday. Police suspect the death to be a case of suicide. Police said that the girl was found in an unconscious state in the classroom and she was taken to the […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (IANS) Dheeran Chinnamalai born as Theerthagiri Gounder on April 17,1756 was a Kondu chieftain and Pallayarakkar from Tamil Nadu who had revolted against the British East India Company in Kongu Nadu. He was born in Erode in Tamil Nadu. He was the commander in Polygar war and had a large army comprising […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) With the Tamil Nadu government yet to place orders for the Pongal dhotis and sarees, the power loom workers of the state have threatened to go on a hunger strike. Tamil Nadu government has been providing free sarees and dhotis through Public Distribution Systems (PDS) since 1981 and this has helped […]
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 […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) The Coimbatore city police is on high alert after the drug peddlers in the city have taken new methods to push the drug in the city, especially among students in colleges and even schools. Sources in Coimbatore police told BPNS that the drug peddlers are selling ‘Ganja’ in chocolate form which […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) Kuruvai farmers of Myladuthurai and other coastal districts of Tamil Nadu are worried that their crops would be lost if the free power subsidy being given now is revoked following the Central Electricity (Amendment ) Bill 2022 tabled in parliament. Madanasamy, a Kurvai farmer at Myladuthurai while speaking to BPNS said, […]
Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) Police are on the trial of promoters of an investment firm after a mega fraud of Rs 6000 crore is detected in Tamil Nadu. Vellore-based LNS International Financial Services (IFS) has swindled a mammoth Rs 6000 crore from several investors across the state that including hundreds of policemen. Police sources told […]
Johannesburg, Aug 9 (BPNS) Cricket South Africa (CSA) has condoled the demise of former international umpire Rudi Koertzen, who died in a car accident on Tuesday. The 73-year-old was on his way back home from Cape Town to Despatch in Eastern Cape, after a golf weekend when the tragic incident took place. Three others were […]
Hyderabad, Aug 9 (BPNS) Telangana Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Tuesday said welfare schemes for poor people are not freebies but “waiving loans of duping agencies are actual freebies”. The daughter of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said that there are 250 welfare schemes that are being run by the state government […]
