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Varun Sukumar

📚 A Chennai library’s VR experience

Instead of borrowing a book, you can experience it in a virtual reality (VR) installation.

🚧 ₹20 crores expenditure on monsoon preparedness

The water resources department has begun work ahead of the northeast monsoon.

VR installation at Goethe-Institut library

Also in this edition: Monsoon preparations; Syllabus to be tweaked for women combatants; Ford's deal with the employees union

🚴‍♀️ Cycling at night is their right

Women cycle in the city at night to assert their rights in public spaces.

🏗️ A buffer zone at ORR

A 2-km buffer zone along the Outer Ring Road (ORR) will be used for commercial development.