- newFor them, COVID-19 is an opportunity to serve
Physically challenged women workers meticulously check health status of Chennai residents
- 5 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 4:44am -
- newBJP to protest seeking action against YouTuber
BJP state president L. Murugan said the channel Karuppar Kootam insulted the faith of Hindus by uploading a video with dubious claims about a devotional song.
- 7 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 2:26am -
- newTwo motorists killed in road accident in Avadi
Two persons were killed after a bike collided into a stationary lorry parked along the Outer Ring Road in Avadi. The victims — Saravanan, 42, a lorry
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:36am -
- newTamil Nadu Cabinet approves ₹2,500-crore investments
Govt. also clears incentive packages
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:24am -
- newChennai Corporation speeds up restoration of waterbodies ahead of monsoon
Renovation projects worth ₹110 crore will be carried out in 47 places
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:19am -
- newJuveniles escape from private home in Tiruvallur
Police are on the lookout for them
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:16am -
- newA competition for green thumbs
Group calls for ideas to inspire RWAs to take up rooftop vegetable gardens
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:15am -
- newTwo repeat cases of COVID-19 recorded, says Chennai Corporation chief
But such cases are negligible and the residents need not worry: G. Prakash
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:13am -
- newSB-CID Special Sub-inspector transferred following clash in Tiruporur
A Special Sub-inspector attached to Special Branch-CID, who was posted in Tiruporur, was transferred to the district police on Tuesday.According to so
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:09am -
- newCoronavirus | Kin of Chennai Corporation staff test positive
Civic body has started taking samples of its employees
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:08am -
- newTraders’ bodies meet Deputy Chief Minister
Traders’ bodies meet Deputy Chief Minister
- 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:06am -
- new‘DBT not mandatory for power consumers’
Centre’s assurance comes as a relief to State government
- 10 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 12:01am -
- newHigh Court desists from dismissing case on anti-CAA kolam protest
Police asked to report by August 7
- 10 hours ago 14 Jul 20, 11:58pm -
- newA webinar on senior living communities during pandemic times
The webinar will touch on issues such as spurt in demand for retirement homes owing to fears spiked by the lockdown of living alone without aid at hand.
- 10 hours ago 14 Jul 20, 11:56pm -
- newMechanised boats to resume operation from Kasimedu today
Around 3,000 passes issued for those who have work inside the harbour.
- 10 hours ago 14 Jul 20, 11:49pm -
- newA calling beyond duty: police personnel compose awareness songs on COVID-19
The songs are now being played on public address systems attached to autorickshaws, to create awareness about the virus among the general public
- 13 hours ago 14 Jul 20, 8:47pm -
- newLocal history project meets the pandemic
What is acknowledged as unprecedented today will be viewed as history tomorrow — this simple and straightforward idea drives ‘Nam Local’, an initiative to document Chennai during the pandemic through photographs, illustrations and articles
- 16 hours ago 14 Jul 20, 5:44pm -
- newAnother policeman in Chennai dies of COVID-19
The 54-year-old is the fourth policeman to have died after contracting the virus, in Chennai
- 20 hours ago 14 Jul 20, 1:18pm -
- ‘Wholesale markets must be reopened’
It will help protect livelihoods and keep prices of essentials in check: trader’s body
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 2:08am -
- Cases continue to dip in Chennai; State’s toll goes past 2,000
Tamil Nadu’s overall tally increased to 1,42,798 with 4,328 persons testing positive; 66 deaths take the toll past the 2,000-mark
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 2:07am -
- Tablighi Jamat members shifted out of Puzhal jail
129 persons now in Haj society building
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:24am -
- Pillayar Palayam barricaded
The Kancheepuram Collector has announced complete lockdown in Pillayar Palayam in the district from July 13 to 26.The announcement comes in the wake
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:23am -
- Sathyabama varsity cancels entrance exam
The Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed University) has cancelled its all-India engineering entrance examination for admission to
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:21am -
- Sudhakara Reddy passes away
D. Sudhakara Reddy, president of the Air Passengers’ Association of India, passed away here on Monday. He was 73. He is survived by his daughter.Mr.
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:20am -
- Two arrested on charge of smuggling ganja from A.P.
The city police on Monday arrested two suspects who were found smuggling ganja in a goods carrier into the city from Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Prades
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:17am -
- Man wanted in Cheyyur woman’s death arrested
He is the second person after his brother to be taken into custody
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:15am -
- 15 held in MLA-realtor clash over land dispute
Chengalpattu police register three FIRs
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:13am -
- Met dept. plans revamp of its network
Many instruments to be replaced and rain gauges installed across the State
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:11am -
- Gym owners pushed to the brink
Corporation exploring options to allow the reopening of 3,500-odd units
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:08am -
- Madras HC can decide on pleas on OBC quota for medical courses: SC
‘Petitions specific to T.N. unrelated to pending case’
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:05am -
- 32 teams to watch market areas
Revenue officials will monitor the enforcement of norms
- 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 12:03am -
- IIT-M team conducts research on cancer-curing properties of turmeric
The findings showed clearly that even a small concentration of curcumin could potentially enhance the sensitiveness of leukaemic cells to TRAIL, researchers said.
- 1 day ago 13 Jul 20, 10:41pm -
- 72 police personnel rejoin duty after recovering from COVID-19
Chennai Police Commissioner Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal welcomes them
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 2:53pm -
- A virtual summer camp for children, organised by children
We, the children of Rani Meyyammai Towers, MRC Nagar have been conducting summer camps for the last four years, for all the kids in our gated communit
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 11:46am -
- Chennai resident’s volunteering effort crosses hundred day mark
July 10 was a milestone day in this Mandaveli resident’s volunteering effort, which continues as a lockdown initiative. On this day, Baskar Seshadri,
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 11:45am -
- Stepping in for the bereaved family
Young volunteers ensure that those who have succumbed to COVID-19 receive a good burial or cremation
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 11:41am -
- School Education Department gears up for televised lessons
Video lessons for classes 2 to 10 are being designed and shot at present, an official said
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 2:03am -
- Chief Secretary cracks the whip on latecomers at Secretariat
Shanmugam says he will monitor the attendance of staff daily from today
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 12:28am -
- Coronavirus | 1% of civic workers of the Chennai Corporation test positive
Precautions taken to prevent staff from spreading the virus
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 12:16am -
- Aadi sales to be a low-key affair this year
Retailers wary of over-crowding issues; ramp up innovative measures to push products
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 12:13am -
- Migrant labourers throng Ripon Buildings
‘Shramik Specials’ to other States resume after a fortnight
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 12:04am -
- Lower intake in engineering colleges
The number of seats stands at 2.65 lakh in 506 colleges this year
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 12:04am -
- SRM cancels engineering entrance examination
The admissions will be based on Class 12 or Pre-University or other equivalent marks in physics, chemistry and mathematics or biology.
- 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 12:01am -
- COVID-19 lockdown took away this 35-year-old’s job, Chennai Corporation gave him another one
The Saidapet resident is now a ‘focus volunteer’ with the civic body, and monitors patients placed under home quarantine
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 4:20pm -
- For this 20-year-old, working with Chennai Corporation during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a learning experience
J. Abirami was due to get a job at a hospital, but this was delayed because of the pandemic, and now she works as a ‘fever surveyor’ with the civic body
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 4:17pm -
- The wedding attire ‘lost’ and found
Due to two staffers at the St. Thomas Mount speed post centre testing positive for COVID-19, the consignment was held up, but it got delivered promptly when the issue was raised with India Post
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 1:07pm -
- Open house meetings may buck the digital trend
Grievance redressal systems may have moved online, but in a post-COVID world, in-person interactions may return with a vengeance
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 1:03pm -
- From ferrying people to carrying vegetables
The pandemic has led many people to think out-of-the-box, and here is a driver who gave a good thought to how the ‘box’ of his rented maxi-cab should look and what it should transport
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 12:48pm -
- What does it mean to have a health worker as your son?
As P. Bhaskar’s work takes him every day to two Wards that come under the most challenging containment sections in Chennai, and on account of this, his family, especially his mother Devyani, are getting accustomed to a new life and routine
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 12:45pm -
- Fever clinics credited with Chennai’s declining trend in coronavirus infections
Corporation has so far screened 10 lakh city residents in these clinics
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 12:08pm -
- COVID-19 | Celebrities wish speedy recovery of Bachchans
The bollywood celebrities, who are at Nanavati Hospital, shared their health update on Twitter, on Saturday night.
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 2:26am -
- Encroachments sprout again on lake bed
Korattur residents allege that the newly-built bund has been breached and buildings constructed
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 12:04am -
- Madipakkam’s pincode issue resolved
Some streets were earlier allotted pin code of Old Pallavaram post office
- 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 12:02am -
- Stalin’s allegation baseless: Velumani
Municipal Administration Minister S.P. Velumani on Saturday termed as “baseless” the allegation by Opposition leader M.K. Stalin that there were irre
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 11:38pm -
- Local labourers roped in for Chennai airport’s modernisation project
Migrant workers’ absence is keenly felt
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 11:29pm -
- Free dialysis facility opened in Chennai
TANKER Foundation to run the unit
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 11:28pm -
- A common complaint that gains more significance now
Corporation plasters rainwater harvesting pits, leaves debris on the road
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 11:20pm -
- When the lights go out
Residents of Ambattur and Mogappair complain of frequent power outages
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 11:17pm -
- Youngsters reach out to residents in containment areas
The initiative was started by the Aminjikarai police
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 11:06pm -
- Horticulture Department’s mobile veggies shop a hit with residents
A mobile shop selling fruits and vegetables, operated by the Tamil Nadu Horticulture Department, at Srinivasapuram in Thiruvanmiyur is said to be enjo
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 10:59pm -
- ‘Lay a pipe connecting lake to pond’
Even as the work on restoring the Chitlapakkam lake is under way, Chitlapakkam residents have requested the Water Resources Department to a pipe chann
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 10:54pm -
- New pedestrian facility usurped
A few months ago, the State Highways Department completed the construction of stormwater drains (SWDs), from Medavakkam to Sithalapakkam, on Medavakka
- 3 days ago 11 Jul 20, 10:21pm -
- Bike thieves leave residents of Velachery worried
Residents said prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, there was sufficient police patrolling in the locality, but it has decreased now
- 4 days ago 11 Jul 20, 3:23pm -
- NIFT Hyderabad students tell COVID-19 story through Cheriyal art
A unique craft initiative helped students learn and make products sporting the traditional art
- 4 days ago 11 Jul 20, 1:08pm -
- Police raid fake call centres in Chennai, arrest fraudsters for offering fake loans, cheating public
The police have arrested 26 suspects so far this year, and have also appealed to the public to not fall prey to fraudsters
- 4 days ago 11 Jul 20, 12:34pm -
