Inmathi Staff
Health

Psychologist seeks blanket ban on online games

In this episode of Inmathi.com’s ‘Vaer Kaanal’ (Finding Roots) programme — where a problem is taken up and discussed threadbare with an expert — we go into one of the most troubling features of digital life, namely games and gambling, with Dr Sundari K P, a psychologist, practising for the past...

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Online games
Health

Hospitals too can be hotspots of infections

Inmathi.com has launched a new column called ‘VaerKaanal’ (Finding the Roots) in which a problem is taken up and discussed in-depth with an expert to understand the roots of the issue. In this first episode of ‘VaerKaanal’ vascular surgeon J. Amolarpavanathan explains the growing global...

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HAI
Culture

Chola era golden age? Just perception: epigraphist

Epigraphist and archaeologist S Ramachandran has written widely on epigraphy – notably on the upper cloth revolt and the Tranquebar manuscripts, among other topics. His discovery of an anchor, midsea at Tranquebar, with the help of fishermen is considered a milestone in oceanic archaeology....

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Epigraphy
Environment

Go solar to beat rising power tariffs: Expert

Solar power need has never been direr and its importance never more valuable.  The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd. (TANGEDCO) has hiked the prices of electricity despite opposition. As per the new rate structure, domestic consumers will have to pay Rs 4.50 per unit up to...

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solar power
Politics

Unpacking the PFI ban

The PFI, Popular Front of India, has been banned and the National Intelligence Agency has filed many cases against it for on several charges such as chopping off the hand of a college professor, of people associated with organisations espousing other faiths, collection of explosives to target...

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