Author: Bhavani Prabhakar

With diphtheria cases being detected in neighbouring States, the Department of Public Health (DPH) and Preventive Medicine in Tamilnadu has taken precautionary measures and instructed all paediatricians, ENT surgeons, general practitioners and obstetricians to closely monitor cases that come with conditions like fever and sore throat as these could be possible symptoms of diphtheria.

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The Madras High Court, in a recent hearing on Madras Christian College (MCC) sexual harassment case, pronounced that there is a ‘general feeling’ among parents, especially those of girl students, that ‘co-educational study in Christian institutions is highly unsafe for the future of their children’. A section of MCC alumni students state that the management is not inclined to bring justice to the complainant students in such cases.

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Having grown from three employees to 3,300, Global Healthcare Billing Partners Private Ltd, which has completed 20 years of operation, plans to expand its employee-base and put up a 1,000-seater facility employing more than 1,000 workers within the next six months in India.

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While several civil society organisations have hailed the move of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI’s) plan to bring down the trans fat content to zero per cent in a calculative manner, it is left with the thought of how the State government will be testing the food products.

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