Task-sharing through initiatives like MTM has contributed to better access and early management of hypertension and diabetes in Tamil Nadu, as observed in recent survey findings. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj By taking healthcare directly to the people’s doorsteps, Tamil Nadu’s flagship scheme – “Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam” (MTM) – has demonstrated an improvement … Read more
Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge speak to the media after attending the all-party meeting convened by the central government, in New Delhi. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The shifting Congress responses to the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) … Read more
India’s Universal Immunisation Programme is among the largest of its kind in the world, reaching an estimated 29 million pregnant women and 26 million newborns every year. As a longstanding partner of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has played a key role in supporting the government’s … Read more
A town that took shape in stealth during a time of revolt within the princely state of Travancore roughly between 1798 and 1810, Balaramapuram in present-day Kerala has secured a unique brand name for its handloom dhotis and saris. The town in Thiruvananthapuram district was named after a former ruler of Travancore, Avittam Thirunal Bala … Read more
A study found that preventable Caesarean sections or C-sections constitute between 3.1% and 8.4% of all deliveries in the southern States of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana. Among the 21,499 women studied, the percentage of preventable C-sections was 6.2%, and the percentage of C-sections was 44.3%. The percentage of preventable C-sections among … Read more
A vintage colour lithograph from 1853 of William Shakespeare. | Photo Credit: Getty Images April 23 marked the 461st birth anniversary of the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon, William Shakespeare, who was described by his scholarly contemporary Ben Jonson as the “Soul of the Age”. Shakespeare was born in 1564, a year which was significant in the … Read more
While some desperately try to scrub away the so-called bad influence of violent films, they do yearn for the very thing they claim to despise. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Keralites have had a complicated relationship with violence in films, adoring the adrenaline rush of edge-of-the-seat action sequences but screaming blue murder the moment someone … Read more
The tension between languages and cultures is mediated by translation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A picture theory of language says images are the link between words and the real world. One points to a cow and tells a toddler, “Look, cow. Say it. Say cow!” Thereafter, it is unlikely that the child will point … Read more
For the last few months, residents of Bellathycombai village near Manjoor in the Kundha taluk of the Nilgiris district have been a worried lot. The Adivasi residents have been reporting strange explosions along River Sillahalla — the proposed project site of the Sillahalla Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project. While officials of the Tamil Nadu Generation and … Read more
The story so far: After more than three years of intense negotiations involving over 190 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finalised a historic pandemic accord aimed at preventing and responding to future global health crises. The agreement was reached during a marathon session at the WHO headquarters in Geneva and concluded in the … Read more