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Over 50,000 shops are expected to reopen on Monday.

Corporation to intensify fine collection for safety violations

More businesses to resume operations in Chennai today

Special Correspondent

Corporation to intensify fine collection for safety violations

As many as 84.58 lakh people visited Amma Canteens from April 23 to May 17 and May 20 to May 28.

Amma Canteens to stop supply of free food from today

Rentals of laptops, WFH furniture pick up in Chennai

The contacts of positive cases have been placed under home quarantine.

Coronavirus | SHGs will monitor those under quarantine in Tiruvallur

A scene at the Kasimedu fishing harbour on Sunday morning

Thousands throng Kasimedu fishing harbour on Sunday to buy fish fresh off the boats

Chennai Police Commissioner A. K. Viswanathan giving away certificates to policemen who rejoined duty after being cured of COVID-19, on Saturday. Photo.S. R. Raghunathan

Chennai police chief greets staff cured of COVID-19

Coronavirus | Chennai accounts for a majority of fresh cases in Tamil Nadu

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The PWD has taken up work on priority to ready the 400-bed facility at the Stanley Medical College Hospital.

Stanley Medical College Hospital to have 400 more beds for COVID-19 Special Correspondent

New beds with oxygen lines will be ready in three days, says Vijayabaskar

Those on long COVID-19 duty get a break

Stricter policing on the cards for cluster containment

Coronavirus | Being a good host in the midst of a raging pandemic

Coronavirus | Chennai Police Commissioner inspects containment zones

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Theatres need govt. help, says Archana Kalpathi, AGS Cinemas CEO

The 'Bigil' creative producer of AGS Entertainment speaks about how the COVID-19 pandemic might have threatened the existence of the movie exhibition industry, but has also created new opportunities

Gear up for online indie concerts

Susan Joe Philip

Chennai-based Riffbook.org offers online concerts to support independent musicians during the lockdown

Aeronautics and mythology keeps this filmmaker’s dream alive

Actor-turned-entrepreneur Jagadeesh Kanna on his firm 'Vaayusastra Aerospace' and taking aeronautics to children using theatre arts

Bringing patrons back to theatres

Sangeetha Kandavel Theatres are looking at how to operate their business during the initial few weeks after the lockdown

Lockdown | Modi making same mistake of demonetisation albeit at a larger scale: Kamal Haasan

Staff Reporter This ill-planned lockdown is leading us to a fatal combination of loss of both life and livelihood, he says

Representative picture: Coronavirus lockdown has complicated the livelihoods of over 25,000 FEFSI union members in Tamil film industry

Coronavirus effect on Tamil film industry’s daily wagers: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Pradeep Kumar As Kollywood wound to a halt with the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown, the fate of assistant directors, background dancers, caterers and many more is left hanging in the balance

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Recruitment woes Chennai

AUT objects to appointment of Pachaiyappa’s College principal

Within days after flights resume, all safety norms go for a toss

Ramping up facilities Chennai

Stanley Medical College Hospital to have 400 more beds for COVID-19

Illegal construction on temple land stopped

ATM robbery solved, bank employee held

Makers of ‘Godman’ receive summons

Those on long COVID-19 duty get a break

City police personnel, who were on COVID-19 prevention duty for long, have been given rest for seven to 10 days. The practice has come into force

Going for a haircut? don’t forget your Aadhaar

SOP issued for establishments to help in contact tracing

Associations want teachers to be included on expert panel

Committee formed by govt. to look into academic concerns following COVID-19

Stricter policing on the cards for cluster containment

Corpn. calls for more surveillance along perimeters of zones like Royapuram

Chennai residents invite us to their homes

Three examples of how families have set up a home workspace

Here is how our neighbourhood adapted to the new normal

Initially, when the lockdown began, our apartment association in Anna Nagar with 16 flats bought a hand-wash dispenser and asked the security to

‘Taking a cautious approach saved my family’

Words of wisdom from a policeman

Coronavirus | Being a good host in the midst of a raging pandemic

Flight attendants do a balancing act between enforcing safety norms and attending to flyers’ needs

Fishers stranded in the Andamans return

43 of the 163 who arrived are from Tamil Nadu

Coronavirus | SHGs will monitor those under quarantine in Tiruvallur

Each volunteer to be allotted houses to keep tabs on

More businesses to resume operations in Chennai today

Corporation to intensify fine collection for safety violations

Amma Canteens to stop supply of free food from today

The exercise kicked off on April 23 to feed the poor and needy

Pandemic casts shadow over Tiruvottiyur, Gudiyatham bypolls

CEO says he is yet to hear from EC; enforcing safety norms cited as a challenge

Coronavirus | Chennai Police Commissioner inspects containment zones

The number of containment zones has now reduced to 420 from over 1,150 on Tuesday.

Meal at this Amma Canteen in Thiruverukadu gets more nutritious during lockdown

Anna Nagar resident shows gratitude to frontline workers by supplying free eggs to those who dine at this facility

Rentals of laptops, WFHfurniture pick up in Chennai

Lalitha Priya took a “timely” decision over a month ago taking a laptop on a rental basis by paying ₹1500 a month. “I have a computer of my own but I

They sell tea to tide through this crisis

Domestic workers Shanthi and Amala from Mandaveli and Mylapore respectively are making up for the loss of regular income with a bit of enterprise

An inter-state volunteering group reaches out to migrant workers

As beginnings go, this one was pretty small. Besides, it did not come with any plan, let alone a structured one, to grow it big.Rahul George has

Can volunteering groups handle the massive issues relating to hapless migrant workers?

AidIndia founder Balaji Sampath provides an answer to that question from the experience of running two campaigns to get migrant workers back home

Thousands throng Kasimedu fishing harbour on Sunday to buy fish fresh off the boats

There was no regulation of the crowds, and many did not maintain physical distancing, fishermen said

A past cycle ride and the memory of an intrepid ‘frontline worker’ from Madras of the 1800s

Ahead of World Cycling Day, here is how efforts to have a cycling group staying connected to its passion during the lockdown led to a nostalgic account of the life of an inimitable man of medicine

A lockdown journal and an online literary festival from the residents and writers of Chennai

One initiative seeks to present the ‘local histories’ gathered during the pandemic, in different narrative formats; and another is geared towards showcasing the writers’ craft through the literateurs of Chennai

Locust attack in T.N. unlikely: CM

Palaniswami asks officials to take precautionary steps

HC rejects plea to cancel R.S. Bharathi’s interim bail

Directs Sessions Court to consider granting regular bail on day of surrender

Senior IPS officer made State Intel chief

Senior IPS officer C. Easwaramoorthy will hold full additional charge as Additional Director General of Police, Intelligence. Incumbent Inspector

MTC asks maintenance staff to report for duty

Fitness certificates of 1,775 buses set to expire in June

1,979 high risk areas identified

Corporation plans to intensify community intervention by involving NGOs

HC permits open court hearings in nine districts in first phase

Court asks lawyers above 65 years of age to use video conferencing

Coronavirus | Chennai accounts for a majority of fresh cases in Tamil Nadu

Death toll touches 160 in Tamil Nadu; recovery rate is around 56%

HC yet to take a call on extending retirement age of court employees

The Madras High Court has decided to extend the services of the Tamil Nadu Judicial Ministerial Services staff who are due to retire on Sunday since

Chennai police chief greets staff cured of COVID-19

A.K.Viswanathan says warm reception will give personnel a boost

Transgender community in Chennai lends helping hand to needy through crowd funding

Members of the community have collected funds and are providing food and dry rations to the homeless and to migrant workers, among others

Conmen create fake FB account of senior IPS officer

Followers lured with attractive investment plan

Pedestrian plaza at Pondy Bazaar opens up sans the bustle

Shopkeepers ready with precautions but customers few and far between

Orders today on plea to cancel interim bail of R.S. Bharathi

The Madras High Court has decided to pass orders on Saturday on a plea by Central Crime Branch (CCB), attached to Greater Chennai police, to cancel

Krishna water from Andhra Pradesh reaches Poondi reservoir

WRD is now diverting water to Chembarabakkam to augment the storage which was at 1.9 against a total of 3.6 tmcft.

Nearly 40% of flyers at Chennai Airport opt for physical forms instead of Aarogya Setu app

The form asks for the passenger’s health status, recent travel history, destination and residential details.

Chennai Metro to install foot-operated lifts

In an effort to control the spread of COVID-19, Chennai Metro will soon install foot-operated elevators in its stations. A prototype has been

Coronavirus | Koyambedu cluster happened despite precautions, Madras High Court told

‘CMDA distributed masks and disinfected premises daily’

Coronavirus | Chennai Corporation begins work on largest care centre

Facility in Pulianthope will house 1,728 patients; bed capacity to hit 10,000 soon

Govt. unable to accept legal defeat: Deepa

Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s niece J. Deepa and nephew J. Deepak on Friday accused the AIADMK government of politicising the inheritance case

Madras High Court declares niece and nephew as Jayalalithaa’s legal heirs

The court drops the term ‘Class II’ from its order passed on May 28.

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Delhi Home guard staff thermal screen the passengers waiting at the DTC bus stop amidst the lockdown imposed till May 31, in New Delhi on May 29, 2020.

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The fund was set up to accept donations for relief measures during the pandemic. Photo: Reuters

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Migrant labourers walking towards Dr MGR Chennai Central via Poonamalee High Road

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Wajid Khan (R) with brother Sajid Khan of Sajid-Wajid duo during the Mirchi Music Awards in Mumbai on January 27, 2011.

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Public wait in the queue under the scorching sun defying physical distancing norms at a ration shop in South Alagapuram in Salem.

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Migrant labourers pull handcart loaded with building materials during the nationwide lockdown in New Delhi on May 30, 2020.

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A school teacher in Chennai Corporation school teaches tenth and twelfth standard students through online class in Chennai on Monday.

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This image made available by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, May 28, 2020 shows a label for the drug metformin.

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