CHENNAI: A serpentine line of elderly women, 17-year-olds and assorted relatives, wound endlessly outside the rather dilapidated Panagal Hall at the Kilpauk Medical College. As it moved slowly into the building, it was evident that people had added twists and turns to the queue innumerable times to salvage whatever little shade they could manage.Even if we get sunstroke, I suppose there are enough doctors to attend to us, said Varadhu...
09:26 AM, May 16, 2012
CHENNAI: Becoming a mother on Mothers Day is special for just about any woman. But for women who have been battling with fertility issues for years, Sunday was a particularly great day. We had three women who delivered children through Caesarean operations this mothers day, said Dr Jeyarani Kamaraj, infertility expert at Aakash Hospitals. And for all three women, motherhood has come after a long medical struggle.Rekha Sundaresan, who just...
08:23 AM, May 14, 2012
CHENNAI: Late last year when the Chennai Metro Rail work brought a spate of diversions in most arterial parts of the city, people believed that the parking situation would worsen. On the contrary, now that the series of one-way traffic streets have been implemented, shoppers and families stopping for a bite have found that they can park pretty much in front of their destination with ease. Now that theres twice...
08:37 AM, May 03, 2012
CHENNAI: Looks of pleasant surprise were resplendent on the faces of all the passengers who had the fortune of being the first to be ushered through the new airport terminal at the Chennai Airport. This is really great. Its almost like a super-deluxe version of what were normally accustomed to, gushed Bindhu, who arrived from Mumbai on Kingfisher Airlines flight IT 187. She was among the 137 lucky passengers who...
08:17 AM, May 01, 2012
CHENNAI: The Chennai airport administration has called for a partial roll-back of the exit-within-5-minutes-or-pay-up rule that was introduced along with the new parking system at the airport on April 1. This relaxation of the entry-exit time to 10 minutes, especially during peak hours, has come after the AAI was flooded with complaints and requests for change. After the six computerised parking check-in bays were introduced, all vehicles had to pick...
08:28 AM, Apr 25, 2012
CHENNAI: Denying the joys of sexual intercourse to people over 50, is directly related to the increasing instances of child sexual abuse in the country, says noted sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy. After releasing an extensive study titled Sex and the Aging Indian, accumulated over two decades, Dr Reddy pointed out that a large number of elderly people were denied sex, causing this problem. It is almost an established train of...
08:24 AM, Apr 11, 2012
CHENNAI: Ask anyone what Gandhi and Chennai have in common and theyd probably reply roads. But the connection between the Mahatma and the Queen of the Coromandel is certainly placed in the annals of time. Sixty-four years after he was slain on his way to address a prayer meeting, we take a look back at the times and places that the Father of the Nation left his diminutive footprint on,...
09:01 AM, Jan 30, 2012
CHENNAI: Just as the Sabarimala pilgrim season is gaining momentum, a group of Ayyappa devotees were taken aback at the airporthere when they were reportedly not allowed to carry their irumudis (kit with offerings for the deity) on a Kochi flight by the Jet Airways staff. Santhanam, along with eight others, was all set to depart for his yearly pilgrimage by a flight at 6.55 am on Monday when the...
09:47 AM, Nov 22, 2011
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CHENNAI: The first thought of a pacemaker for anyone is a small white device much like a transistor from the mid-80s, forming a lump under their grandfathers white shirt. But when Wilson Greatbatch - whose implantable pacemaker was sewn up into the body of a patient with an ailing heart - passed away on September 28, it barely made news. However, with the advent of better research and heavily-funded medical...
12:07 AM, Nov 02, 2011
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CHENNAI: They say you see all sorts at the airport. But, on a Tuesday morning marked by a spell of rain, a large number of cockroaches stormed out of the sewers and headed straight for the departure gate at the Chennai Domestic Terminal. According to an airport source, the roaches had always been in the sewers and drain pipes below the newly expanded portion of the airport that is under...
09:04 AM, Oct 12, 2011
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CHENNAI: It even took Proust (that king among French writers) some 13 years to pen his last work, which he incidentally never finished because of his untimely demise. But all it took six-year-old Vishal to write his first book Meadow of Moods is a paltry 10 days. And if you think that its any achievement at all, add to the fact that he has been suffering from autism and you...
08:56 AM, Oct 12, 2011
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