Author: Bhavani Prabhakar

As against the previous years’ alarming air quality data, this Bhogi has been recorded to be less-polluting across the city today.

Bhogi, the first day of Pongal festivities, will not just bring happiness, but also loads of smoke as people will be burning old things on streets. This will increase pollution levels in the city, affect traffic and leave people with cough and breathing difficulties.

For the benefit of citizens, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) had extended the deadline to register for the regularisation of unapproved plots and layout. However, it is learnt that there are still owners failed to complete the process.

Regardless of all developments in the field of medicine, tuberculosis seems to be rising in Tamilnadu. The State ranked second in 2017 with highest number of the disease, trailing behind Karnataka. The 2018, statistics acquired by News Today from Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), reveals that it is no less than the previous year.

Raising their voices against the alleged anti-labour, anti-people and anti-national policies of the Union government, members of several trade unions such as Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Labour Progressive Federation and All-India Trade Union Congress, started a two-day strike all over the country today.

Doctors’ fraternity across the country have raised their voices against the National Medical Commission Bill (2017), Indian Medical Council (amendments) Bill (2018) and Consumer Protection Bill (2018) which were passed in Lok Sabha recently.

Following the inauguration of breast milk bank in Chennai’s Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children recently, the hospital has received 22.67 litres from 167 mothers and dispensed 19.32 litres.

The facilities at the centre include 3D digital mammogram, ultrasound, MRI scan, core needle stereo biopsy, stereo-guided VAB extraction of calcification.

Every woman in her life-time experiences it – vaginal white discharge. A few say it is healthy and a few others term it ‘unhealthy’. ‘News Today’ spoke to Fortis Malar consultant senior gynaecologist, Dr Jaishree Gajaraj, to clear the air surrounding the less-spoken condition.