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Sunday, May 23, 2004

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Around the City

Rise in day temperature

The Gannavaram airport recorded a maximum temperature of 41.2 degree Celsius and a minimum of 27.5 degree Celsius on Saturday. Humidity, which was 53 per cent in the morning, dropped to 35 per cent by evening.

Commodity prices

The following were the prices (in rupees per kg) of essential commodities in the local wholesale market on Saturday: groundnut oil - 55, palmolein oil - 45.50, sunflower oil - 53, tamarind (flower variety) - 26 to 35, tamarind (Karipuli variety) - 37 to 43, chillies - 16 to 26, rice (2716) - 13, rice (super fine) - 14 to 15, rice (Sambamasoori) - 15 to 16, black gram - 19.50 to 25.30 and red gram (Kandipappu) - 27 to 31.

Plea on water charges

The Apartment Dwellers' Joint Action Committee, in a memorandum, urged the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) not to collect water charges of Rs.100 per flat and continue charging them by the meter.

The JAC convenor, R. Ajay Kumar, in a press release, said that a memorandum signed by 2,065 flat owners and dwellers was submitted to the Municipal Commissioner, V. Usharani.

The CPI(M) city secretary and honorary president of the committee, Ch. Babu Rao, led the delegation.

Health education programme

Tuberculosis is causing one death every 15 minutes in Andhra Pradesh, said Meher N. Prasad. Delivering a lecture on `Tuberculosis and DOTS' at a health education programme conducted by the Vasavya Nursing Home, Dr. Prasad said that TB could be cured and was preventable with the right treatment.

He said the incidence of TB was higher in women. Though TB infects lungs most frequently, skin, lymphnodes, bones, gastrointestinal tract, spine are also infected, he said.

Directly Observed Treatment Short (DOTS) course was now in vogue. DOTS was working very effectively for Government agencies, which were trying eradicate the disease.

`Release all Iraqi prisoners'

The All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation State unit condemned the treatment of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. The general secretary and former MLA, K. Subba Raju, demanded that all Iraqi prisoners be unconditionally released and a high-level inquiry ordered into the inhuman acts against prisoners. He demanded that USA and UK withdraw soldiers from Iraq immediately.

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