Functioning from 8 am to 8 pm, it deals only with mental stress
With more than 300 sexual assault cases filed in Chennai under POCSO Act in the last three years, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to maintain a register of child sexual offenders. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
V Chinnadurai and S Swetha wanted their wedding to be memorable. So this is what they did.
'Earlier it was a stigma to discuss mental problems. But I get more patients for past life regression as in India people believe in rebirth and karma,' Dr Prakriti Poddar, who uses hypnotism to treat illnesses, tells A Ganesh Nadar.
'It shows that they cannot manage the situation with the forces in their hand.'
Saudi police allege Indian's hand cut off due to fall. Indian embassy await word from Saudi government. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports on the latest developments in the Kasthuri Munirathinam case.
'If the government cannot protect the acid attack victims the least they can do is support their rehabilitation.'
'Companies are threatening to terminate them or putting them on unpaid leave.'
A Ganesh Nadar meets a community of Rohingya refugees on the outskirts of Chennai who are happy to have found a place where their lives are not in danger.
'Even as the National Guard kept up the show of strength, safety was kept in mind.' 'Their guns were not loaded. They didn't want to scare people unless they posed a threat.'
A Ganesh Nadar finds out how private water distributors help Chennai's water-starved citizens.
'The situation is normal now. The Kashmiri Pandits should come back.'
'The BJP has become a reasonably larger force in Tamil Nadu in the last two years.'
The Akali Dal, an ally of the BJP, has written to the parliamentary committee opposing certain clauses in the land acquisition bill. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com speaks to Akali Dal MPs to find out why they oppose the controversial legislation.
As M Karunanidhi passed into the ages, we look back at some of the legendary scriptwriter's greatest movies.
Dr Renu Raj cracked the UPSC exams at her very first attempt. 'You should be sensitive to what is happening in society and you will get through the exams,' she tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
'How can you have massages on trains in the presence of other lady passengers?'
'Nobody is making yoga compulsory. If you don't want to do it, it is okay. Yoga has no religion.'
'Bommai was a minister in my cabinet. It is not ethically correct.'
'I did hesitate and was scared, but I decided to save the child as I realised I would have done that if he was my child'
There is a hidden hand behind the political developments in Tamil Nadu...
'I have many times bought meals for the accused, and the police pay for it.'
'The minister said we should stop fishing near the shore and start going for deep sea fishing.'
'Why should farmers who give us food be vacated to hand over their property to a private company held by one individual,' asks green activist S P Udaykumar.
'The Telangana police are working on the same agenda against Muslims as the Modi government at the Centre.'
'More than 90 per cent of the party cadres are with OPS.'
A day before the crucial trust vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly, Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar checks out the mood in the AIADMK hq.
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.
The daily wage earners who oil the wheels of the movies business are struggling to cope with the fallout of the lockdown.
It came as a surprise when an Indian NGO said it would announce the winner of the US presidential elections a day before E-day.
As doctors treat Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, a different daily drama takes place outside the Apollo Hospitals gates.
Mentally-challenged children find themselves ignored by India's education system.
'Don't try to impose anything on us.'
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com attends Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's presser in Chennai to tom-tom the government's achievements in its first 100 days in office.
'It has everything to do with TRPs.' 'It is a potboiler as Bollywood stars are involved.'
'I am happy that Kosi Ma is alive and now she is looking after us.' 'I am proud of what I did.'
Budding RTI activist from Chennai files request with ONGC. Instead of response, police comes asking about her.
'The big fish are still out there and people will continue to die till they are brought to justice.'
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