As the Central and state governments allow phase-wise relaxation in curbs to get the life up and running again following over two months of lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
With reopening of colleges delayed, the state higher education department on Wednesday asked universities to begin online classes for students from August 3. This is to ensure that students are taught for the mandatory academic hours for the next semester.
The rain on Tuesday and Wednesday led to heavy waterlogging in parts of Chrompet and Pallavaram that residents blame on encroachments on water channels along the eastern side of GST Road and choked railway culverts.
The Madras high court may have directed authorities to ensure NSC Bose Road in Parry’s remains a ‘no hawking’ zone, but vendors continue to reign supreme, clogging traffic and reducing space for pedestrians.
The 9km metro rail line in north Chennai, which was to open for operations in June, is likely to be ready by the end of the year.
The Tamil Nadu government has informed the Madras high court that adequate number of PPE kits are being provided to about 10,366 frontline Covid-19 workers daily in government hospitals.
Air India pilots, who have been manning the Vande Bharat mission flights despite the health risk posed by Covid-19, have been forced to appeal to the ministry of civil aviation against the decision to cut allowances, including flying allowance, which form around 80% of their pay.
Dr Rubaiya Sherif, daughter of former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, on Tuesday night approached the Abiramapuram police saying she had been receiving obscene calls on her mobile phone.
Former Nagercoil MLA Nanjil A Murugesan, 53, who was expelled from the AIADMK’s primary membership on Monday, has been booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl for more than two years. Four others – the girl’s mother who pushed the girl into flesh trade for her gains – and three other men who raped her have been arrested.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) will soon take up a space audit at Chennai airport to assess better use of space to improve amenities for passengers at domestic and international terminals and also on the city side of the airport campus near GST Road.
Lockdown with relaxations, currently in force across Tamil Nadu, is likely to continue until August-end.
Hospitals in Tamil Nadu’s districts continued to be crowded and more doctors and nurses were sent on isolation as the state reported 6,972 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, pushing the total tally to 2,27,688.
In a macabre case of matricide, a 36-year-old man murdered his bed-ridden mother, apparently to relieve her of her multiple ailments and pain.
The state government is considering resumption of inter-district and intra-district bus services in August, after a month-long suspension. A decision will be taken after chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s meeting with district collectors and health experts on Wednesday and Thursday even as the state braces for one more lockdown phase in August.
Nearly 430 families living along the northern side of Cooum at Sathyavani Muthu Nagar are exposed to risk of flooding should it rain heavily in the coming days.