For a long time now, shows on TV about curing illnesses by doctors practising different forms of medicine have been happening in our State. However, recently, the Tamilnadu Board of Indian Medicine has filed a complaint with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) seeking to stop broadcast of such programmes.
Author: Bhavani Prabhakar
While metro has been in the news for all achievements and milestones, residents of the neighbourhood complain of lack of feeder service surrounding Alandur and Nangananallur Metro stations.
The seven-year struggle to restore and rejuvenate Adambakkam Lake is finally beginning to pay off. The Public Works’ Department (PWD) has taken efforts to mark the boundaries along the Inner Ring Road bridge and is soon learnt to kick-start the deepening and desilting process.
The hike in property tax since the time of revision has not been welcomed by the residents of Nanganallur, Adambakkam, Alandur and surrounding areas.
Much known for developing ‘Madras foot’, the Government Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, K K Nagar, is now in abeyance due to lack of awareness.
The State Cabinet recently relaxed several restrictions in the newly-proposed FSI (floor space index) rules owing to the flak it had received following the revision. It has to be noted that the maximum FSI area has been increased to 1.75.
There is a temperature dip for a few days. However, it comes with a cost, affecting our health, if not taken proper care. First in the list is cold, cough and fever are the most common condition in any given household.
Chennai: The prolonged gloomy weather in Chennai and our being unprepared for the weather has left every other person with a sore throat or blowing our nose. Snaking queues can be spotted at clinics with patients holding their hankies and sneezing or coughing or they are down with fever. Though experts are against self-medication, homemade remedies, where the everyday ingredients are used to prepare concoctions do no harm. This weather, caused by the monsoon failure, is certainly new for the people of Chennai, as we are acclimatised to warm weather conditions. But before stepping out to consult the doctor, why…
J K Sivan, an octogenarian, has published 35 books in the last four years and has come up with his next book, Aindham Vedam, in Tamil that was released recently.