Author: Bhavani Prabhakar

The tweet further clarified that the re-booking can be done only after 7-10 days. For people who have already booked, the need will be served.

December 2015 – several parts of Chennai and its suburbs were flooded. One among the affected communities was Periyar Samathuvapuram in Mudichur. Several families became homeless overnight. Fast forward three years, now, 20 families have a concrete house to live in thanks to Bhoomika Trust, an NGO that works towards disaster management in several places in India.

“The motor skills coordination aids in child development. For instance, when the child holds the tamarind seeds in his/her palms while playing pallanguzhi, it improves the fine and gross motor skills. Similarly, five stones game enhances gross motor skills and aids in hand-eye coordination,”

Day or night, Sowmya Sankaran does not worry if she gets a call to rescue stray animals or perform obsequies. Moved by the plight of homeless people and animals, the engineer-turned-writer and a resident of Ram Nagar founded ‘Life with Equality’, a social platform to help the needy, in 2014. 

Nursing students of the Institute of Social Obstetrics and Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children held a protest today to condemn the action of the kith and kin of a cardiac patient who reportedly attacked a nursing student who injected medicine prescribed by a doctor.

People and activists in Chennai seek proper treatment and adequate infrastructural facilities in the Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs). A ground survey to a few UPHCs revealed that they were not wrong in their observation.

Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children Department of Neonatology Head, Dr C N Kamalarathnam, suggests the working community store the expressed milk, if they have a private space and an equipment, while they are at their office and feed the child when they get home.

In addition to offering regular courses, Nirmala hosts free workshop for underprivileged women monthly once that teaches aari, zardosi work and painting among others.

Since the past few days, there has been frequent power outage reported in places like Lakshmi Nagar, Balaji Nagar and other parts of Nanganallur. Residents state that the electricity supply was erratic during the brief spell that the neighbourhood witnessed recently.