Новости за 31.12.2015

In an effort to ensure an accident-free New Year's eve, the traffic police have made traffic arrangements on Kamarajar Salai and Rajaji Salai for Thursday night.

Police claim to have caught the main accused in a case of robbery in which yesteryear actor ‘Pakoda’ Kader’s wife Mumtaz, 62, was robbed of her five-sovereign gold chain on October 19.

Ongoing disciplinary proceedings against eight lawyers suspended last month for their tiff with Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel guarding Madras high court got murkier with a member of the disciplinary committee alleging extraneous pressure to pass favourable orders, and CISF itself lodging a complaint and seeking transfer of trial to another state.

Three recent incidents of young girls falling prey to sexual abuse by men, most of them either their neighbours or people known to them, shows an alarming increase in such crimes, warn child rights activists.

Bird watchers and environmentalists who flocked to the Pallikaranai marsh after the recent heavy rain gaped in shock at what they saw. The wetland that should have been brimming with water and teeming with resident and migratory birds was largely dry.

Have you wondered why the price for one kg of mackeral or seer fish costs more in Chennai than in land-locked cities like Bangalore and Madurai? Or why fruits, vegetables or flowers cost more to a larger city with more consumers, more bulk orders and better infrastructure?

New Year & EDM Tourists Rush Cause Traffic Snarls For Several Hours

Psychological illnesses are one of the most under recognized, under diagnosed and undertreated diseases that a person can have. “Both obesity and mental depression are serious illnesses,” Texas Tech University’s department of nutritional Sciences chairperson and professor, Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar, said, adding that these shouldn’t be dismissed as behavior inclined conditions but treated with the same seriousness as cancers.

India’s mobile phone subscriber base peaked to more than 1 billion users (100 crore) for the first time, data released by the telecom regulator on Wednesday showed, making India the only country after China to achieve that milestone.

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has rejected differential data pricing as a feasible model in their submission to Trai’s consultation paper on the same. Facebook, whose much debated Free Basics program functions on differential data pricing, is also a part of the industry body.

India and China have decided to undertake a joint study on the impact of regional trade agreements, a first of its kind effort by the two Asian rivals, a senior official has said.

The revision in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) by the government last week is expected to translate into savings of 10-20% for patients at the therapy level on widely used antibiotics, anti-infectives, cardiac and respiratory medicines.