Woman Hindu activist arrested for issuing threats to Leena Manimekalai

Chennai, July 7 (BPNS) The Selvapuram police in Coimbatore arrested a Woman Hindu activist, ‘Athiradhi’ Saraswati for issuing a threat to Leena Manimekalai, director of documentary film, ‘Kaali’ against which Hindu organizations are up in arms for portraying goddess Kaali in a bad light. The documentary filmmaker portrayed Goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette and holding […]

State government for modernising fair price shops in TN

Chennai, July 7 (BPNS) The Public Distribution Shops (PDS) in Tamil Nadu are set to be modernized with the theme ‘Food security and nutrition security”. The state has around 35000 fair-price shops with most of these shops run by cooperative societies and some of them by women self-help groups. The state food and consumer protection […]

Malayalam actor sent to jail under POCSO act

Thiruvananthapuram, July 7 (BPNS) Malayalam actor Sreejith Ravi was sent to a 14-day remand after he was charged and arrested under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) act on Thursday. He was arrested by the Thrissur West Police upon complaints filed by two children that he resorted to exhibitionism near SN […]

Gujarat visit of officials, govt didn’t seek report

Thiruvananthapuram, July 7 (BPNS) The Gujarat visit of Kerala’s chief secretary VP Joy and another officer to study the techniques in the Gujarat Chief Minister’s e-governance dashboard system in April had invited a lot of brickbats. Now, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the Assembly that the government had not directed the officers to submit a […]