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Puducherry: Archana Sasi, with a score of 176 marks, topped the unreserved category in the MBBS entrance examination results of JIPMER which were announced in Puducherry on Thursday evening. Regi Selvanayagam (172 marks) and Anubha Dev (171 marks) finished second and third respectively in the examination conducted on May 27. Ashuvanth S (155 marks), Gowri Shankar B (154), Surya R (151) finished first, second, third respectively in the Puducherry unreserved...
10:40 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Puducherry: Migratory birds and endangered animals protected by the Indian wildlife laws are being sold openly in a market in Puducherry. CNN-IBN has accessed images that expose the thriving lucrative business. At a roadside food stall, in the city of Puducherry the selling of protected birds and animals is a common sight. The images show ibis and purple moorhens, open billed storks being sold openly at roadside stalls. These birds...
06:25 AM, May 31, 2012
Puducherry: Migratory birds and endangered animals protected by the Indian wildlife laws are being sold openly in a market in Puducherry. CNN-IBN has accessed images that expose the thriving lucrative business. The images show ibis and purple moorhens, open billed storks being sold openly at roadside stalls. These birds visit the Oussudu Wildlife Sanctuary in the winters for breeding where they are allegedly hunted. Jungle cats, palm civets, porcupine, monitor...
01:25 PM, May 30, 2012
Puducherry: The overall pass percentage in the plus two examination in Puducherry and Karaikal regions has gone up marginally to 84.52 this year against 83.55 per cent last year. Releasing the details of the results, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy told reporters that S Swapna of private St Joseph Girls Higher Secondary school has emerged the first ranker in the Union Territory scoring 1,190 out of 1,200 marks. He said the...
09:45 AM, May 23, 2012
Puducherry: The overall pass percentage in the plus two examination in Puducherry and Karaikal regions has gone up marginally to 84.52 this year against 83.55 per cent last year. Releasing the details of the results, Chief Minister N Rangasamy told reporters S Swapna of private St Joseph Girls Higher Secondary school has emerged the first ranker in the Union Territory scoring 1,190 out of 1,200 marks. He said two government...
09:00 PM, May 22, 2012
Puducherry: A day after Union Minister V Narayanasamy accused the Puducherry government of having failed on several counts, Chief Minister N Rangasamy claimed that the Centre had full faith in its ability to implement centrally sponsored schemes in the Union Territory. The chief minister was presiding over a meeting for implementation of a pilot project on integrated coastal management by the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem. Hitting out at...
05:44 PM, May 21, 2012
Puducherry: Centre would soon hold an inquiry into alleged irregularities in distribution of Rs 125 crore sanctioned by it to the Union Territory of Puducherry for cyclone Thane relief works, Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy said on Sunday. Addressing a meeting of Congress workers in Puducherry, he claimed the funds had been 'siphoned off to benefit those owing allegiance to the ruling AINRC and also well to...
10:19 PM, May 06, 2012
Coimbatore: A day after four lorry loads of medical and municipal wastes brought from the Kerala were seized near Pollachi, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) took up the issue with its counterpart in the neighbouring State. "Immediately on learning about the dumping of biomedical wastes from Kerala in farmlands at Chemmanampathi near Pollachi, I instructed the TNPCB Chairman to write a letter to the Kerala PCB asking them...
07:00 AM, May 02, 2012
Puducherry: Rejecting Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy's charge that he was blocking central funds to the Union Territory, Union Minister and senior Congress leader V Narayanasamy on Sunday blamed AINRC government for the deepening financial crisis. "The whole government machinery has come to a standstill with financial crisis deepening fast as a result of poor planning, increased tax evasion and lack of action to spend the funds provided by the...
05:00 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Puducherry: Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy on Sunday said people have lost faith in the Rangasamy led AINRC government as none of the poll promises made last year had been implemented. Speaking to reporters after visiting an employee of PASIC at the government hospital where he is being treated for burns after he attempted suicide at his house on Saturday, he said the man had taken the...
04:45 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Puducherry: About 100 students from coastal villages in neighbouring Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, studying in schools in Puducherry, have not been getting their educational allowance from the Tsunami Relief sanctioned by PMO for the past six years, a children's rights movement said in Puducherry on Saturday. MA Segar, convenor of 'Neithal Community Children's Rights Movement' (movement for protection of rights of fishermen's families in coastal hamlets) told newsmen on...
03:31 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Puducherry: Opposition AIADMK on Tuesday said the dawn to dusk bandh on Wednesday, urging the UPA government to back the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC at Geneva on March 23, would be held as scheduled. This was stated in a party press release in Puducherry. Functinoaries of AIADMK's local unit on Tuesday distributed pamphlets at various centres, asking traders, fleet operators, auto and tempo workers, students and...
06:48 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: A latest report prepared by the civil aviation ministry has made some startling revelations. The report indicates that a mere 14 per cent of scheduled flights which operate in the country cater to a mammoth 55 per cent of the nation's total population. The report states that Haryana, Sikkim, Puducherry, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have almost zero connectivity, while 11 states - Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,...
09:31 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Puducherry: All trade unions in Puducherry have called for a bandh on February 2 to urge the government to order a probe by a High Court judge into the recent death of a union leader due to alleged police action in Yanam, an enclave of Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh. In addition to a probe by a High Court judge, the unions are also seeking sanction of a solatium of Rs...
04:06 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Chennai: The contribution to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to undertake cyclone 'Thane' relief work touched Rs 24,27,42,932 on Wednesday. On Wednesday alone, Rs 4.15 crore was donated by various institutions. The commissioner of Chennai Corporation and its employees parted with a day's salary. This, along with Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy's donation of Rs 3 lakh totalled Rs 1 crore. Similarly, Murugappa Group's executive president A Vellaiyan and Suzlon...
04:39 AM, Jan 27, 2012
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