Chennai’s winning combination of technology and tradition may be drawing droves of people from across the world, but time has robbed this city of many a quaint pastime, lament old-timers who grew up i

A group of medicos has dragged the management of a private medical college to court, after they were harassed and asked to pay an exorbitant amount as tuition fees.

The state fees committee, headed

Last week, cosmetologist and dermatologist Dr G.R. Ratnavel had a visitor, a lovely 3-year-old girl accompanied by her mother.

The mother wanted the doctor to make her daughter ‘fair’.“Microdermabra

It is probably the most difficult decision to make, but the people of Tamil Nadu have set an example for the rest of the country to follow. The state has recorded a stunning 80 per cent ‘conversion ra

City doctors have removed rare tumours from patients in risky surgeries, again establishing the high standards of medical science here.

Surgeons at a teaching hospital in the city have used sophisti

This is a classic case of beauty for a cause. Chennai-based IT professional Deepali Phadnis has just returned to the city after being crowned Mrs Asia-International at the Mrs International pageant at

When sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy received his first copy of the Kama Sutra as a wedding gift, he did not bothered to read it assuming that it would be nothing but a voyeuristic collection of differen

When sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy received his first copy of the Kama Sutra as a wedding gift, he did not bothered to read it assuming that it would be nothing but a voyeuristic collection of differen

Thanks to intensive campaigning and prevention tactics, the infection rate of HIV has dropped, but experts are worried about another looming viral epidemic—hepatitis.

Hepatitis B is 100 times more in

It may be a cholera scare for the corporation and the rest of the city, but for residents of the diarrhoea pockets of Boopathy Nagar and Osonkullam, life goes on.

A day after the corporation announce