chennai rains

Many students in Chennai are extremely worried about how they will cope with their studies now. They have lost all their textbooks and notebooks in the floods. This is how two young men are helping them out using WhatsApp.

The Government of India has announced that all passports lost or damaged due to the Chennai rains will be replaced for free.

Our home was destroyed. We were stranded. But wave upon wave of humanity kept our spirits high and our belief in the Indian people afloat.

When rains and floods in Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu made life come to a standstill for many days in a row, there was an urgent need for quick and simple solutions that could help rescue people. And volunteers did come up with many brilliant jugaads.

A Bangalore based entrepreneur, Dinesh Jain, has reached Chennai with a gift that has the potential to solve the scarcity of drinking water there. He has put together a mobile unit that can convert 20,000 litres of any kind of water into drinking water.

Over a hundred people have been rescued from Chennai by teams of Army, Indian Air Force (IAF), and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). In this video, watch how a pregnant woman and her child were airlifted from the terrace of a building.

Ram Kashyap, a resident of Bangalore, has decided to shuttle between Bangalore and Chennai to deliver relief supplies for those in need. People in Bangalore have been donating items like raincoats, food, sanitary napkins and more, in large numbers. This is how you can contribute.

Tamil Nadu is facing the heaviest rainfall in over 100 years, and it has been raining continuously in Chennai and some neighbouring regions since Monday this week. In such a situation of distress, this is how people in the city are helping each other out in every possible way.

Members of the Tamil Nadu Home Guards displayed their commitment to duty in a very inspiring way when the city was submerged because of the rains and people were crying out for help.

Chennai is going through a very challenging time, facing its highest rainfall in 10 years and the floods that followed. In such a situation, there are many Good Samaritans who are doing their best to rescue their fellow beings. This is how.