The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Visakhapatnam News : Around the City

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Apr 03, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

Around the City

Weather

Forecast: Partly cloudy sky with a spell of rain or thundershower. Maximum temperature would be around 36 degree Celsius. Waltair, the maximum temperature was 32.3 degree Celsius and the minimum was 26.9 degree Celsius respectively on Saturday. Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 75 per cent and at 5.30 p.m. was 73 per cent. At Airport, the maximum and minimum temperatures were 35.8 deg. C and 26 degree Celsius respectively. Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 70 per cent and at 5.30 p.m. was 68 per cent. The maximum and minimum temperatures were 33 degree Celsius and 25.5 degree Celsius respectively at Dolphin's Nose. Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 75 per cent.

Nominated

The director of publications of the World Teacher Trust, Chintalapati Satyadev, has been nominated as member of the Programme Advisory Committee of All India Radio-Visakhapatnam for two years.

ECoRSU

anniversary

``The East Coast Railway Shramik Union is virtually on a collision course with the Centre on the issue of constituting the sixth pay commission,'' the ECoRSU general secretary, Ch. Gandhi said on Saturday. He was speaking at the second foundation day celebration the union. The ECOrSU additional general secretary and Waltair divisional coordinator, D. Shaleel, presided.

Exemption for shops

The Labour Department has announced exemption of working hours for shops and establishments for the Ugadi festival from Sunday to April 9. The exemption would be subject to conditions such as no employee should work for over 12 hours on a day, that the employees should be paid overtime wages for the period worked over eight hours per day, compensatory holiday for working on weekly-off, etc., according to Deputy Commissioner of Labour, M. Narasimha Varahala Reddy.

Workshop

on English

The Medha Institute of English and Personality Development is conducting a workshop on the `Importance of English language in MNCs' by the English language trainer, V. Sreenadhachary of Hyderabad, at the institute premises near Rama Talkies on Sunday. Interested candidates can register their names by ringing up 98660-06665 between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Sunday.

Utkal Day

A dance performance by a team of 15 artistes from the Odissi Research Centre of Bhubaneswar marked the 69th Orissa Formation Day (Utkal Divas) organised by the Utkalika Cultural Association at Ukkunagaram on Friday.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Andhra Pradesh

News Update

Stories in this Section

Vizag economic zone woos software, pharma units

Regional sports school for Karminagar

RTC to run 200 cricket specials

Traffic curbs for one-day match

Collector inspects filtration plant

Police on high alert

Drug control officers oppose chemists' bandh

Around the City

In Visakhapatnam Today