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Wednesday, Jan 12, 2005

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Around the City

Temperature

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, JAN. 11. The city today registered a maximum temperature of 30.0 degree Celsius and a minimum of 18.4 degree Celsius.

Study Circle

The Study Circle functioning in the District Employment Exchange here will conduct a free coaching programme to the candidates, both men and women, appearing for jail warders examinations, at 10 a.m. on January 16. A release from the Collector, V. Pandian, issued here today said the class would be held at the YWCA Hall at Cantonment. Interested candidates could participate in the programme, the release added.

Rally put off

The `hygiene Pongal' awareness rally scheduled for tomorrow evening in the city has been postponed owing to the observance of the mourning day. The alternative date of the rally would be announced later, a release from the Collector said.

New Year celebration

The P and T Dispensary staff celebrated the New Year with inmates of the INTACT Special School at K. Sathanur in the city. The Chief Medical Officers, P. A. Philip and K. Aravindan and others participated in the programme.

Demonstration

Members of the Makkal Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhagam, including women, staged a demonstration near the Collectorate here today, urging the Government to construct proper houses for tsunami victims. They also demanded provision of fishing nets and other equipment to the fishermen affected by the tsunami free of cost, slapping a ban on the adoption of the children who have become orphans by private people, setting up of homes for orphans in all districts by the Government itself.

They urged the Government to prepare the list of the dead and the missing, based on the birth and death registration. The executive committee member of the Kazhagam, Sekar, led the agitation, when the president of the All Platform Vendors Protection Association, Sekar, and others spoke.

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