Chennai, Aug 13 (BPNS) The functioning of many government hospitals of Tamil Nadu is affected by an acute shortage of medicines. The government medical college hospitals are now functioning by making local purchases using Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS). Sources in the Tamil Nadu health department told BPNS that the Tamil Nadu Medical […]
Chennai, Aug 13 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government’s announcement that it will commence the production of Pongal sarees and dhotis soon has brought relief to the weavers of Erode and other districts of the state where weavers depend mainly on the order from the state government. The Tamil Nadu Federation of Power Loom Association had […]
Chennai, Aug 13 (BPNS) The AIADMK interim general secretary and former Chief Minister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami called for the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin to allow the state police to function independently to curb the drug proliferation in the state. In a statement on Saturday, the former Chief Minister said that he had raised […]
Thiruvananthapuram, August 13 (BPNS) The CPI(M) led Left Democratic Front government in the state has once again been put in a spot by Thavanur MLA KT Jaleel. In the latest, he stirred a hornet’s nest by making some controversial remarks on Jammu and Kashmir via a Facebook post. Though the former minister withdrew his comments, […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) CPM leader ,KT Jaleel MLA who was a minister in the first Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet has drawn flak over serious anti- national remarks on Kashmir. The former minister in a facebook post stated that during partition Kashmir was divided into two and that the Kashmir part in Pakistan was Azad Kashmir […]
New York, Aug 12 (IANS) Author Salman Rushdie, who has a multi-million-dollar bounty on his head, was stabbed on Friday while he was on stage readying to speak at an event in New York State on the US as the home of creative expression. State Police said Rushdie, who appeared to have been stabbed in […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) Archeological experts and Anthropologists of Tamil Nadu have joined with the Archeological Survey of India officials in conducting detailed research on the 0.30 g gold that was unearthed during excavation at Sivagalai. The archeologists are tight-lipped over the type of ornament this small piece of gold was part of. It may […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) An eco-watcher with the forest department in Tamil Nadu was trampled to death by a wild elephant on Friday morning. The deceased, M. Murugan (51), a resident of Seengapathy tribal settlement located within the limits of the Boluvampatti forest range had gone to a bushy area around 20 metres from his […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) Police in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu arrested a 21-year-old youth for raping and impregnating a Class XI student who is sixteen years old. According to the Tiruchi police, the youth and the girl were in love. The youth, Prathap was a final year student of a Private college and the girl was […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) The Madras High court on Friday came out strongly against the practice of an orderly system in Tamil Nadu police and called for the Director General of Police to provide a report to the court before August 18. Justice S.M. Subramaniam of the Madras High Court said that it was painful […]
