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Fall in humidity

Gannavaram airport recorded a maximum temperature of 36 degrees

Celsius and a minimum of 21.1 degrees Celsius on Friday. Humidity dropped from 75 per cent in the morning to 45 per cent in the evening.

Commodity prices

Following were the rates (in rupees per kg) of essential commodities in the local wholesale market on Friday, according to the Vijayawada Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Groundnut oil-49, palmolein oil-40, sunflower oil-48, tamarind (flower variety)-21 to 26, tamarind (karipuli variety)-39 to 46, chillies-18 to 23, (refrigerated)-18 to 20, rice (2716)-13, rice (super fine)-14, rice (sona masoori)-16 to 17, rice (samba masoori)-15 to 16, black gram-21.80 to 24.20, red gram (Desavali)-21, (Pandiripalem)-23.25 and (Nagpur)-25.25.

Yoga camp

The Pranadata Yoga Seva Kendra will organise its 15th camp at the conference hall of Hotel Paradise on the Congress Office Road, from March

20. In a statement on Friday, the founder president of the Kendra, Jupudi Basaveswara Rao, and the Director of the Suraksha Health Village, Manikyeswara Rao, said yoga training classes would be conducted from 5.30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Congress gesture

Congress leaders in the city, led by their president, Kadiyala Butchi Babu, on Friday distributed fruits to in-patients of the Government General

Hospital and the old and orphaned at Nirmal Hrudaya Bhawan, to mark the 75the anniversary of the salt satyagraha. Later, addressing party workers, Mr. Babu said the move was in response to the call by the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, who wanted party leaders across the country to mark the day by taking up welfare activities.

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