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“Nivar” in the Bay of Bengal intensifies into severe cyclonic storm

November 25, 2020
cyclone
  • The Deep Depression over the South West Bay of Bengal has concentrated into the Cyclonic Storm “Nivar”.
  • The cyclone is currently found 410 km east-southeast of Puducherry and 450 km southeast of Chennai.

Three new NIA branches to come up at Imphal, Chennai, Ranchi

September 30, 2020
National Investigation Agency (NIA)
  • National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be going to set up three more branches in Imphal, Chennai and Ranchi to ensure a quick response to any emergent situation in the concerned states.

AIMA Chanakya National Management Games 2020 won by NTPC

September 4, 2020
National Thermal Power Corporation Lts. (NTPC)
  • The All India Management Association (AIMA) Chanakya (Business Simulation Game) National Management Games (NMG) 2020 won by the team of NTPC Limited (Chennai).

2300-kilometre submarine optical fibre cable network between Chennai and Andaman and Nicobar Islands inaugurated

August 10, 2020
2300-kilometre submarine optical fibre cable networkr
  • To boost tourism and digital services in the Islands, PM Narendra Modi inaugurated a 2300-kilometre submarine optical fibre cable network between Chennai and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Chennai launched Plasma blood bank

July 22, 2020
Chennai launched Plasma blood bank
  • Chennai health dept. has launched a plasma blood bank to facilitate convalescent plasma therapy to COVID-19 patients.
  • It is inaugurated by the State Health Minister Dr. C Vijayabhaskar at the Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital in the city. It has the facility for seven people to donate blood plasma at a time.

India to organize EAS conference in Chennai

February 5, 2020
EAS

India is set to organize an East Asia Summit conference in Chennai with a concentration on maritime security cooperation and tackling challenges in the maritime domain.

Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar Islands submarine cable work begins

January 10, 2020

Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated the submarine cable works on laying between Chennai – Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The submarine cables will be initially laid from Chennai to Port Blair covering a distance of 1,450 kilometres. He also flagged off the ship to lay the cable at Chennai Port. At the initial stage of commissioning of the project itself, the islands can get a data speed of 400-gigabytes per second.