Nantha Kishore

The Common Biomedical and Waste Treatment Facility, set up in 2006 near Virudhunagar’s Mukkulam village, processes biomedical waste from 1,633 medical facilities in five Tamil Nadu districts. news Pollution Friday, February 04, 2022 - 13:08 “Many villagers used to come with me for dialysis,” 62-year-old Bose recalled on his way back home after his dialysis treatment at a private hospital in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai, which is 40 kilometres from his village.

In the library, Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" were lying next to each other. Arundhati Roy's latest essay collection, "My Seditious Heart", Revathi's "A life in TransActivism"; a couple of introductions to the Indian Constitution, Urdu edition of Mahabharata, books on Gandhi, Nehru, Bhagat Singh, and even Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novels were available for the readers.

Dr. K Padmarajan is a “little” different from the rest of the candidates running for the General Elections in India. Mostly, and majorly, that’s on account of his losing 168 elections since 1988. It’s a feat that has gotten him entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for being “the most unsuccessful candidate in elections in the world.” But sporting a big bushy mustache, a round red tilak and a colorful shawl on his shoulder, Padmarajan is, to put it mildly, unstoppable.