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Sunday, Sep 12, 2004

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Around the City

Drop in humidity

Gannavaram airport recorded maximum temperature of 31.7 degrees Celsius and minimum of 23.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday. Humidity, which was recorded at 87 per cent in the morning dropped to 68 per cent in the evening.

Commodity prices

Following were the prices (in rupees per kg) of essential commodities in the local wholesale market on Saturday: Groundnut oil - 55, palmolein oil - 46.25 sunflower oil - 54.50, tamarind (flower variety) - 43 to 48, tamarind (karipuli variety) - 53 to 57, chillies (refrigerated) - 24 to 28, chillies - 14 to 18, rice (2716) - 13, rice superfine (samba masoori) 14 to 15, rice sona masoori - 15 to 16, black gram (pottu minapappu) - 19 to 22, red gram (kandipappu) - 31 to 35.

Power shutdown

There will be no power is areas that fall in the Patamata section of the Southern Power Distribution Company in the city from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. Areas that will be affected are the 4th and 5th crossroads of Autongar, 60-foot road, first part of Autonagar third phase and Vijaya Electricals Road. The high-tension points that will be affected are Krishna Bottles, Reliance India Pioneer Rubbers and Ravindra Solvents.

Call for blood donation

Blood donation is a good way to serve society and save lives, said upcoming Telugu film star, Allu Arjun. He visited the blood donation stall set up in the Swaraj Maidan exhibition by the Chiranjeevi Voluntary Blood Donors' Club. G. Samaram, local coordinator of the club explained the activities of the club to the young actor.

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