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The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was reported on 7 March 2020. The largest single-day spike (36,987 cases) was reported on 13 May 2021 and Tamil Nadu now has the fourth highest number of confirmed cases in India after Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka. All 38 districts [note 1] of the state are affected ...
2021 South India floods. The 2021 South India floods are a series of floods associated with Depression BOB 05 and a low pressure system that caused widespread disruption across the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and the nearby Sri Lanka. The rainfall started on 1 November in Tamil Nadu. [1] The flooding was caused by extremely ...
CHENNAI (Reuters) -Police on Monday detained 104 striking workers protesting low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in southern India as they were planning a protest march without permission ...
Michaung originated as a low-pressure area in the Gulf of Thailand which crossed into the Bay of Bengal and became a deep depression on December 2. It developed into a cyclonic storm thereafter and was named Michaung. It was the ninth depression and the sixth named cyclonic storm of the season. The cyclone gradually moved north-west over the ...
Economy of Chennai. Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As of 2020 the GDP (PPP) of the Chennai metropolitan area is $219 billion with an urban population of 1.09 Crore. [1][2][3][4] Chennai has an economic base anchored by the automobile, software services, medical tourism, hardware ...
This is a List of newspapers in Chennai that are based and headquartered in the city. The availability of multimedia news platforms has accelerated in the 21st century, and by the close of 2017, no Chennai newspaper had a monthly circulation [clarification needed] below two million readership, making the city one of the most widest newspaper reading city in the world along with the likes of ...
Tamil Nadu has the second largest state economy in India. [16] The state also hosts the highest number of factories in the country. [17] [18] The state is 48.40% urbanised, accounting for around 9.26% of the urban population in the country, while the state as a whole accounted for 5.96% of India's total population in the 2011 census. [19]
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.