Tamil Nadu

Health officials screen a driver for coronavirus symptoms on the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh on March 24, 2020. (AFP)

Panicky villagers burn new clothes sold to them by merchant under corona watch

Rumour on WhatsApp triggers panic in Tamil Nadu village

29 Mar 2020 8:27 PM

Quarantine sticker pasted on Kamal Haasan's office

Chennai civic authority says it was a mistake

28 Mar 2020 3:54 PM

As cases rise, PM asks Tamil Nadu CM to enforce lockdown strictly

The state government which had initially announced the shutdown till March 31 on Thursday extended it till April 14

27 Mar 2020 2:07 PM

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand and current world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway at the Tata Open. PTI Photo

FIDE stops Candidates tournament midway after Russia bans flights

The tournament will resume from the 8th round with France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi in lead with 4.5 points

26 Mar 2020 5:10 PM

Health workers subject a truck driver to thermal screening at the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh interstate border on the outskirts of Chennai on March 24, 2020. (AFP)

Tamil Nadu reports first corona death: Patient, w/o travel history, dies in Madurai

However, he did have contact with two corona+ Thai nationals

25 Mar 2020 10:09 AM

Visitors/petitioners with symptoms of cough, cold and fever not to be allowed into the office spaces. (AFP)

Guidelines issued to Tamil Nadu police to prevent virus spread within the department

Police hospitals in the state asked to be kept ready to in an “unforeseen” contingency arising due to coronavirus

24 Mar 2020 4:14 PM

Two friends who came in direct contact with the patient have been moved to quarantine. (AFP)

Man back from Dubai meets friends, tests +ve

Police to find out more people who have been in direct contact with the patient

24 Mar 2020 3:30 PM

Uber and Ola are reported to have lost as much as 80% of rides but the company has not offered any financial assistance to tide over the crisis. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Alexander Torrenegra)

Uber, Lyft suspend shared rides in US, Canada, but not yet in India

Pooled rides show up on the Uber and Ola apps in India even now

18 Mar 2020 5:56 PM

Facebook is also awarding USD 100 million in grants and ad credits to assist small businesses. (Photo | Pixabay)

Facebook staff to get USD 1,000 bonus as they work from home amid corona outbreak

Employees will also get an automatic ‘exceeds expectations’ rating on their performance review

18 Mar 2020 4:41 PM

Ishani Vellodi Reddy reaches out to the elderly

The daughter-in-law of the Apollo Hospitals family says panic is not the answer to Covid-19

18 Mar 2020 12:01 AM

The Madrid municipal police put out a video on twitter of the drones in action. (Representative image | Flickr - Richard Unten)

Madrid, Dubai deploy drones deployed to get people to stay home during coronavirus crisis

Police in Spain’s Madrid, UAE’s Dubai, as well as locked down Kuwait deploy drones to make repeat announcements

16 Mar 2020 9:39 PM

According to Microsoft, 100 per cent of Fortune 500 companies and one in seven people around the world use Windows 10 devices.

Microsoft hits target of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 globally

About 80,000 laptop models from over 1,000 manufactures make up a large chunk of the total number of machines running Windows 10

16 Mar 2020 7:36 PM

In this picture taken on March 11, 2020 an Apple staff (C) and customers wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus are seen inside of an Apple shop in Beijing. (Photo | AFP)

Apple to host WWDC 2020 in June, will release iOS 14 and more at online-only event

Upgrades of the iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS are also expected at the developers’ conference

16 Mar 2020 6:35 PM

This file photo is of the launch of the Honor 9X Pro and Honor 9X last month. The company claims to have attracted 1 million app developers for Huawei AppGallery.

Honor 9X Pro coming this month-end but without Google suite, as Huawei blacklisted by US firms

The United States government barred its companies from supplying software and hardware to Huawei in May last year.

16 Mar 2020 5:24 PM

Edutech apps are also seeing an increase in enrolments.

Extramarks, Byju’s, Toppr, Unacademy step up to fill education gap as schools shut amid corona fears

Some edutech apps offer free access to courses till April end, others provide access to training for JEE, NEET

16 Mar 2020 4:43 PM

Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand plays against Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen at the Chess India 2019 - Rapid format, in Kolkata last year. PTI Photo

Commentary to keep Anand busy as COVID-19 restrictions delay his return from Germany

Indian Grandmaster will be commentating on the Candidates tournament for a website

16 Mar 2020 11:21 AM

Indian users will of course have to go through a VPN to log on to YouTube TV to watch US TV shows

Now you can ‘mark as watched’ shows on YouTube TV

The YouTube algorithm will now stop annoying you with suggestions for episodes you’ve already watched

15 Mar 2020 8:12 PM

G7CR has been in the business of setting up cloud platforms for banking, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, PSUs, education, retail and IT firms.

Indian firm G7CR offers free migration to cloud to aid work from home amid coronavirus outbreak

Toll-free number 1800 572 3617 connects business requiring help in migrating to cloud systems to G7CR

14 Mar 2020 6:46 PM

Individual users on social media, rather than rogue state players, are the ones driving the spread of misinformation. (Photo | howtostartablogonline.net)

Beware of fake news, you can't self-test for coronavirus

Social media is filling up with fake news on COVID-19 despite steps taken by Facebook, Google, and Twitter to curb misleading information

13 Mar 2020 7:20 PM

Seemingly innocuous posts such as this one were being shared by a network linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency, Facebook said. (Photo | Facebook)

Russia-linked Facebook accounts targeting US audience removed

Facebook removed 49 accounts, 69 pages and 85 Instagram accounts with a total of nearly 300,000 followers

13 Mar 2020 5:54 PM