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Express News Service CHENNAI: “Mask it or risk it,” was the key takeaway that 2020 left us all with. By now, the familiarity with the virus, has made us adapt a laid-back approach towards it. Festival seasons, social gatherings and movie releases are testing times; wait... all these together have filled our calender this week. So, how well ‘mask disciplined’ are we? It’s a known fact that the city corporation collects fine for Covid-19 safety protocol violations. But the civic body is also diversifying its focus to other important areas other than the virus. Imposing fines is not a ...

Express News Service CHENNAI: “I have given my best to the Corporation for the last eight years, including during the 2015 floods, and most recently, during the pandemic. Now, there is no clarity on whether or not I will be asked to join work again,” said a contract worker, engaged by the Greater Chennai Corporation. A section of contract sanitary workers working at the Anna Nagar zone claimed they were asked to stop reporting for work from Monday. Around 550 such workers have been asked not to report to duty until further orders. On Tuesday, another 160 members of the workforce in Royapu...

Cash and jewellery aside, some of their drivers had even saved lives when on duty. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- M Moorthy (in reflective jacket), battery operated vehicle driver for Urbaser, along with Selvam K, supervisor, returning the foreign currency to Mary Chitra, a Mylapore resident. (Photo | Express) Express News Service CHENNAI: M Moorthy, a 38-year-old who drives a battery operated vehicle for Urbaser, was on his regular ‘route’ in Adyar zone collecting waste from the 400 odd houses he is assigned to when he found a geometry box stuffed with foreign currency. He wasted no ...

Chennai's Marina beach vendors fear loss of livelihood as number of shops to be slashed Sekaran and around 300 other vendors gathered in protest near the state guest house in Chepauk against the decision to restrict shops on the beach to 900, based on a High Court order Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Vendors on Marina beach who have been doing business for around 40 years protesting due to fears that it may be the end of the road for them (Express | P Jawahar) Express News Service CHENNAI: Vendors who have been doing business along the Marina beach for as long as 40 years now fear they may...

Express News Service CHENNAI: During heavy rains, seven areas near Mathur, suffer from severe waterlogging. The reason - a raised lorry parking in Kalyana Sundaranar Nagar, obstructs water flow to the culvert on NH5, and which drains into the Kosasthalaiyar river.   The land, owned by multiple members of the same family, spans to around 55,000 square feet which has been raised above the ground to facilitate parking of numerous lorries, as a commercial venture.  However, locals allege that the patta was issued only for residential purposes to the individual and his family, as part of a 33-pl...