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CHENNAI: The Covid-19 case count at IIT Madras rose to 183 with 79 more people testing positive on Tuesday. Public health officials have identified overcrowding in clutter and shared bathroom use as the main reasons for the cluster. According to the Covid-19 registry, IIT-M reported two cases on December 1, …

CHENNAI: The Covid-19 case count at IIT-Madras has risen to 183, with 79 more people testing positive for the viral infection on Tuesday. Up to 98 of them are admitted to the National Institute on Aging on the Kings Institute campus. Those who tested positive Tuesday will undergo a basic …

CHENNAI: The government of Tamil Nadu will evaluate all hostel students residing in colleges and universities following the appearance of a Covid-19 group at IIT-Madras. Additionally, the higher education department ordered all educational institutions to allow take-out food for hostel students if they just have a mess or if the …

CHENNAI: The income tax department detected Rs 700crore tax evasion by a Chennai-based group during searches of their facilities on December 9. The IT department seized Rs 23 crore of unaccounted for money and found foreign assets amounting to Rs 110 crore in the form of fixed deposits. Searches were …

By: Express Web Desk | Chennai | Updated: December 15, 2020 2:07:11 pm Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan at the IIT-Madras campus on Monday (Express Photo) At least 79 residents of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chennai tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, bringing the number of …

CHENNAI: At least 33 people tested positive for Covid-19 at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Monday, bringing the campus case count to 104, including 87 students. Test results for nearly 400 more people are yet to come. In addition to the students, 16 canteen workers and a staff member …

By: Express Web Desk | Chennai | Updated: December 14, 2020 2:28:18 pm According to officials, a total of 700 students are currently staying on campus, staying in nine hostels with less than 20 percent occupied capacity in each. The IIT Madras campus was placed under temporary lockdown after 66 …

CHENNAI: IIT-Madras temporarily closed its academic zone, including departments, laboratories and library, and quarantined staff and shelters after nearly 71 people, including 66 students, tested positive for Covid-19 infection since December 1 . This is the first major group seen by the city after the campuses reopened to seniors. While …

CHENNAI: More than 103 kg of gold worth at least 45 million rupees seized in a raid by the IWC and kept in its “safe custody” have disappeared. This was made public on Friday when the Madras High Court ordered an investigation into CB-CID of Tamil Nadu. The missing gold …

CHENNAI: We’re not sure if the nation wants to know this, but for what it’s worth, here’s a weather forecast that sounds like fake news but is not. After Burevi and some other cyclones, the disaster that can disturb the calm of the Indian Ocean region would be called Arnab. …