Flies infest diarrhoea pockets
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
Be careful how haleem is packed
While Hyderabadi haleem remains the city’s pride, which sports the geographical indication tag (GI) and is available at over a hundred locations in the twin cities, experts have warned consumers to be
50 fall sick after wedding feast
More than 50 people fell ill and had to be hospitalised after partaking of a wedding feast in Kochi on Sunday. The police registered a case and arrested the owner of the catering service. The health s
How safe are Iftar snacks sold at wayside stalls?
Now that the holy month of Ramzan has begun, many places in the city are dotted with wayside stalls selling snacks for breaking the fast.
Though there’s a sharp fall in the number of stalls this time
China finds cancer-causing toxin in baby formula
A cancer-causing toxin linked to mildewed cattle feed has been found in baby formula in China, an official said on Monday, the latest quality problem to plague the nation's dairy industry since a 2008
Fitness freaks hooked by steroids
No one who passes by Karimugal, on the Kochi suburb, will miss flex boards of gyms and bodybuilding.
The land abounds in fitness freaks and professional bodybuilders. Every teenager there grows up,
Contaminated water did them in
The outbreak of diarrhoea and massive influx of patients at city hospitals on Saturday has exposed the vulnerability of city’s drinking water network.
Though officials of Chennai Metro Water denied a
Woman’s death, diarrhoea cases trigger cholera scare
A resident of a slum in Chetpet died of a viral infection and 34 others from the same locality were taken ill with symptoms of severe diarrhoea and vomiting, diagnosed by government doctors as acute d
Children with club foot will walk again
Children with club foot and from underprivileged sections of society have now hopes of finding a permanent cure. BMM ISPAT Ltd, in association with Sanjeevini Hospital, has come up with “Anurag”, an o
Four city hotels get show cause
If you thought only eating in small hotels and wayside eateries could be unsafe, you had better think again as the health squad of the Maradu municipality which raided elite hotels found they were usi