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Friday, Apr 22, 2005

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Commodity prices

The following were the prices (in rupees per kg) of essential commodities in the local wholesale market on Thursday: Groundnut oil - 51, palmolein oil - 39.75 sunflower oil - 48, tamarind (flower variety) - 21 to 26, tamarind (karipuli variety) - 39 to 46, chillies (new)- 13 to 14, rice (2716) - 12, rice superfine - 14, Samba Masoori 15 to17, Sona Masoori - 16 to 18, black gram (pottu minapappu) - 22 to 25, red gram (kandipappu) - 22.50, red gram (Nagpur) 26.50.

-Staff Reporter

French classes

The Vijayawada Book Festival Society and Alliance Francaise de Hyderabad will conduct French classes for tenth standard students from April 30 to May 30. Society secretary, D. Ashok Kumar, said in a press release that Alliance Francaise would provide the syllabus, conduct the examinations and provide other technical support to the book festival society.

Applications will be available at the society office from April 23. The last date for submitting the forms after filling them was April 28.

-Staff Reporter

Recognition certificates

The Woman and Child Welfare Department urged NGOs running orphanages and working women's hostels to get recognition from the department.

NGOs without recognition are punishable as per the provisions of GO Ms. Number 18 rule 14 of the department. Applications for recognition of such NGOs should be submitted to the department by April 30.

-Staff Reporter

Plea to traders

The Telugu Desam party city vice-president, Katragadda Babu, in a press release appealed to traders to shift their loading and unloading activity to the Gollapadi The wholesale Market Yard to reduce congestion and pollution in One Town.

-Staff Reporter

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