Tamil Nadu state highway department on Sunday started its work to resize Anna statue roundabout in Melachinthamani on Karur-Trichy-Chennai National Highway in Trichy district.
After facing job loss and an uncertain future on foreign soil, many non-resident Indians (NRIs) are looking to relocate to the city and start fresh once the Covid crisis fades. Young parents among the lot are desperately knocking the doors of schools here to get their kids enrolled for the coming academic year.
A 16-member high-level expert team will review the possibilities of reducing a portion of syllabus for the current academic year, state school education minister K A Sengottaiyan said.
Greater Chennai Corporation has converted the Kesava Perumal Park (K P Park) slum clearance board tenement in Pulainthope as one of the Covid care centres.
The state health department will issue guidelines to cap cost of Covid-19 tests and in-hospital treatment depending upon the kind of facilities and hospitals, health minister C Vijayabaskar said on Saturday. The government has also asked a team of experts if it can incentivise people lodged in government facilities though they tested negative for the viral infection.
Setting the stage for extension of the lockdown into June, the state government has decided to continue with the existing restrictions in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Chengalpet districts due to the high case load. Curbs will be relaxed in other parts of the state with intra-district bus services likely to resume from June 5. A formal announcement is expected on Sunday.
Tamil Nadu moved to control pricing for Covid treatment and offer incentives for remaining in government quarantine on Saturday, which saw the state report the highest single-day rise of 938 positive cases, taking its tally to 21,184. Six people succumbed to the virus pushing the death toll to 160.
Southern Railway will start running eight trains, including return trips, from June 1 within the state as part of steps to resume services in a phased manner. However, the move has received lukewarm response from people as none of them connects Chennai.
The annual fishing ban is set to end on Sunday, a fortnight ahead than normal, but deep sea trawler owners in Chennai are not ready to put out to sea.
The agriculture department and Krishi Vigyan Kendra have clarified that the insects spotted in Neralagiri village in Krishnagiri as well as two villages in Kanyakumari district were grasshoppers and not the locusts ravaging crops in some northern states.
A landscaped garden in the backyard, a portrait of her grandfather in the corridor leading to the dining room, and a well-stocked library.
Police arrested a 48-year-old man for causing tension by placing pieces of raw meat in front of Vengugopala Krishnaswamy Temple and Sri Ragavendra Temple on Sullivan Street in the city on Friday.
Two days after declaring former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s niece J Deepa and nephew J Deepak Class II legal heirs for all her properties, the Madras high court fortified their legal status further by declaring them direct legal heirs.
Amid the spike in Covid-19 cases as the fourth lockdown approaches its end, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday said the virus spread has been contained in the state, excluding the densely populated Chennai which remains a challenge. District collectors were instructed not to resort to suo motu relaxations and seek permission from the chief secretary.
The prohibitory orders may be in place during the lockdown that is likely to be extended beyond May 31, but autorickshaws and share autorickshaws operate freely in the city and its suburbs. As many as 180 temporary check points have been set up across the city, apart from the regular check-posts, to monitor violators, but few autorickshaws, whose owners charge as they please, have been caught.
Desperate measures are called for in times of crisis. With all Tasmac liquor outlets in Greater Chennai Police limits closed, several residents, particularly from the city's northern parts, are travelling by sea to areas in Tiruvallur district and bringing back 'liquid gold'.
For the past two months, Lakshmi* has hardly stepped out of her home. But every night, after her children go to bed, the 35-year-old sex worker puts on makeup before wandering up to the terrace to make surreptitious calls to her clients.
A team of entomologists from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) on Friday ruled out the presence of locusts in the hill town.
Though the agriculture department has ordered a survey to check for presence of desert locusts in the state, entomologists in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University say the desert locust swarm is unlikely to hit the state. They say this assumption is based on wind direction, which is what moves the locusts from one place to the next. They say the swarm which is now in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh may not move towards Tamil Nadu.
The M Chatrapatti police booked four people including the parents of a minor girl for forcibly conducting her marriage. Although the marriage took place in March, it came to the knowledge of officials only on Wednesday.
Anna University got the fifth rank in EducationWorld India Government Universities Rankings 2020-21. IISc Bangalore was ranked as the top university in the country among 150 reputed government universities.
A 40-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for raping his 75-day-old baby girl near Andhiyur here on Monday.
Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chennai.