Seafood hawker joints on Marina told to shut down
Some five to six home-based food joints in the colonies off Marina Loop Road have been asked to shut down since Monday when the second phase of the lockdown came …
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Vans selling fruits and veggies do rounds of your area: organised by Horticulture Dept.
The state-run Horticulture Department is sending out vans with fruits and vegetables into each area in the city zones, to offer shopping at your doorstep. This started on Monday. The vans bear the …
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Handful of devotees have darshan of Kapaleeswarar pradosham
The Mada Streets had a forlorn look on the first evening of the stringent lockdown that came into effect today (Monday). At the Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple, the authorities not only …
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Youths take the vaccine at mantapam on TTK Road
Lots of young people have reported this morning at the Ethiraja Kalyana Mantap on TTK Road in Alwarpet to get the jab. The Mylapore MLA formally launched the process at …
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Coming face-to-face with families shattered by the pandemic in poor neighbourhoods
Contract Corona-care workers who work on behalf of Chennai Corporation are coming face to face with the sad stories of human lives badly affected by the pandemic. Even as these …
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Harikatha artiste Sindhujha engages children with her popular online show. From her base in R. A. Puram
The show is called Namma Boomi Namma Sami. Yes, it is all to do with India’s spiritual and cultural heritage. But it is intended for children. And the anchor-producer is well-known Harikatha artiste Sindhujha Chandramouli …
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Lions Club offers support to proposed Covid Care Centre
Lions Club of Nungambakkam today donated medical essentials worth Rs.20000 to the Covid Care Centre that is being set up in Alwarpet’s TTK Road. The donation was handed over to …
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Construction company violates rules, poses problems to colony in Mandaveli, say residents
Contractors working on a large residential project that is coming up in the plot where Nava Suja eyecare centre once stood – on Venkatakrishna Road in Mandaveli seem to have …
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Sri Ramakrishna Math launches pandemic-time relief. If you are quarantined, get a kit here.
Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai and Ramakrishna Mission Students Home, Chennai, have started jointly relief activities to take care of Covid patients and to support the Covid frontline warriors. Swami Satyajnanananda, …
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Namazhvaar birthday celebrations on Vaikasi Visakam (Tuesday) at Sri Kesava Perumal Temple
It is the seventh day of the Namazhvaar Utsavam at Sri Kesava Perumal Temple. Sridhar Bhattar is standing beneath the eastern raja gopuram just past 6pm on Saturday (May 22) …
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1987 batch of P. S. Senior group to serve pandemic-affected people
Here is one more group that is reaching out in pandemic times. The group is called Friends InDeed and is made of friends from the 1987 batch of P. S. …
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Shopping areas are abuzz during break in extended lockdown
Minutes after the state announced the lockdown in Tamil Nadu was extended for 7 days and that there would be a weekend window to shop and travel out, shoppers were …
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