-The Times of India THENI: Villages near Bodi Hills in Tamil Nadu are seeing a quiet revolution in animal-rearing facilitated by technology. Many women in these villages, who are involved in goat farming, are harnessing the power of the cell phone, for managing their herds better. Every day, they receive about five voice messages on their mobile phones about scientific methods of goat rearing which they say, have helped them improve...
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Better equipped PHCs deliver-Ramya Kannan
-The Hindu The delivery percentage has gone up from 7. 8 to 27. 2 Chennai: The number of deliveries taking place in primary health centres, the bottom of the public health services tier, has climbing steadily over the years in Tamil Nadu. From a mere 7.8 per cent in 2004-2005, the 1,614 PHCs in the State now cater to 27.2 per cent of all deliveries. Clearly, the PHCs are attracting patients from...
More »Restive Tamil Nadu protests the most -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India Chennai: Are people in Tamil Nadu more likely to protest in public against a perceived injustice? Data from the Union home ministry appears to suggest so. The state recorded 15,746 demonstrations in 2011, an average of 44 a day, more than any other state in the country. Uttarakhand was a distant second, with 8,610 protests, according to figures from the home ministry's Bureau of Police Research and Development. Maharashtra...
More »PIL in HC seeks to restrain Centre from ‘secret executions’-Gopu Mohan
-The Indian Express Chennai: Concerned over the "secret execution" of Afzal Guru, a fate that could befall the three persons awarded capital punishment for their involvement in Rajiv Gandhi assassination, a petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking to restrain the Centre from carrying out any more executions without first publicly disclosing the rejection of mercy petition. The petitioner, advocate P Pugalenthi, director of Prisoners' Rights Forum and an...
More »Vinodhini, Karaikal acid attack victim, dies-R Sujatha
-The Hindu Plastic surgeon V. Jayaraman, who treated her till the end said had responded to treatment even on Monday. "We did our best, but she had a cardiac arrest. We tried to revive her twice," he added. Chennai: Vinodhini, the 23-year-old victim of an acid attack on November 14 died at a private hospital here around 9.10 a.m. on Tuesday. A youth, who had professed love for J. Vinodhini, a B. Tech...
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