The ticket booking for these 15 trains would commence at 4 pm on Monday - May 11 and the booking can be done only through the IRCTC website. 

The state government has, on Saturday, moved its appeal to the Supreme Court by claiming that the high court's order would lead to the grave loss of the state's revenue.

With the current reporting of 279 cases, Chennai has recorded 3,330 cases so far in its territory since the outbreak which is the highest number in the state. 

The fresh relaxations have been rolled out by the state government with accord to the guidelines issued by the Central government. 

Through filing the appeal to resume the operations of the TASMAC shops, the state government has, for yet another time, exposed that it depends on the revenue from the sale of liquor.

The districts like Coimbatore, Tirupur, and Erode which once had a rampant spread of the virus, have been reporting no positive cases for the past few days.

On Friday, the state health department has revealed that 1589 people who have tested positive for the virus in the state had linked to the Koyambedu cluster.

The state higher education department and the DOTE authorities would be holding a meet post lockdown to fix the official date for beginning the engineering counseling.

The reports stated that the fresh directive would come into effect on Saturday morning and all the shops must be closed till lockdown.

With the current reporting, the state has recorded 1,100 cases in the past two days and over 4000 cases within a fortnight amid the lockdown and restrictions.