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YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRGCARE) is a non-profit organisation in India working in the domain of HIV/AIDS. The organisation was founded by Dr Suniti Solomon in 1993. As reported in 2018, YRGCARE had provided HIV prevention and treatment related services to about 21,000 people in India who were infected by HIV.
Maya Neelakantan (born 4 May 2013 [1] [2]) is a Tamil prodigy and guitarist from Chennai, India. Playing heavy metal music since six years of age and also learning Carnatic music from nine years of age, [3] she auditioned at the America's Got Talent season 19 in April 2024.
Chennai Sangamam, an art festival showcasing various arts of South India is held every year. [195] Chennai has been featured in UNESCO Creative Cities Network list since October 2017 for its old musical tradition. [196] Government Museum, the second oldest museum in India
Early 16th century: Ekambareswarar–Valluvar Temple is built on an older structure. [3] [4] [18]1516: Church of Our Lady of Light is built. [19]1522: The Portuguese occupy Mylapore and set up a colony which they name São Tomé de Meliapore.
LIC Building, the first high-rise of Chennai and the tallest in India when opened in 1959. Unlike other metropolitan cities in the country, Chennai continues to experience a horizontal growth (that is, expanding continuously in its area) rather than a vertical growth by means of building more skyscrapers, owing to the presence of weather radar at the Chennai Port, which prohibits construction ...
The most prevailing winds in Chennai is the Southwesterly between the end of May to end of September and the Northeasterly during the rest of the year. Water inundation and flooding happen in low-lying areas during the season with significant flooding in 2015 and 2023 .
Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is India's fifth largest city. [1] It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal . With an estimated population of 12.05 million (2024), the 383-year-old city is the 31st largest metropolitan area in the world.
The 2019 Chennai water crisis was a water crisis occurring in India, most notably in the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. [1] On 19 June 2019, Chennai city officials declared that "Day Zero", or the day when almost no water is left, had been reached, as all the four main reservoirs supplying water to the city had run dry.