Schools, colleges and government offices were shut Wednesday in parts of southern India as heavy monsoon rains triggered ...

Chennai’s District Collector, Rashmi Siddharth Zagade, announced a holiday for all schools in the district on November 12. However, colleges will remain open. The Regional Meteorological Centre ...

While a non-governmental organisation says that Chennai is prone to floods and droughts and demand urgent reforms and mitigation efforts, officials of the Greater Chennai Corporation contest such ...

Chennai has been suffering from floods for the last few weeks. The city’s infrastructure had been hit hard and life’s come to a standstill. The situation seems bleaker by the minute.

The Water Resources Department has desilted and widened a 9-km stretch of the Cooum river between Chetpet and Napier bridge to increase the flood-carrying ... places such as College Road and ...