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Chennai Buzz: Mobile ICU for COVID treatment | IIT-M directive to stray feeders | Smart poles for women’s safety…and more

October 31, 2020 News Desk

Updates on key happenings in the city over the past one week.

Chennai Buzz: Strict fines for garbage burning | Air quality update | Free wi fi zones…and more

November 16, 2019 News Desk

What do the latest AQI readings say about Chennai air? What do the Corporation’s revised waste management bylaws say? What’s planned for the busy Chennai Central junction? Catch the buzz from your city this week.

Chennai Buzz: Plastic ban | Lake restoration | Road user survey…and more

December 31, 2018 News Desk

With the plastic ban and news on lake restoration, Chennai looks to begin the new year on a positive note. A quick round-up of what the city is talking about as we end the year.

Surely Chennai, stray dogs at the Corporation pound deserve better than this!

September 19, 2017 Vignesh Mahadevan

A city-based teenage animal activist’s visit to the pound run by the Corporation of Chennai leaves him distraught and aghast over the pitiable condition of the canine inhabitants. Here’s his petition to the authorities.

Embracing all creatures great and small

July 18, 2017 Meenakshi Ramesh

Not even threats to personal safety can thwart him off his chosen path of saving animals. Meet Chennai’s 16-year-old animal rescuer who imparts strong lessons in compassion in an increasingly cruel world.