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Wednesday, Mar 08, 2006

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Around the City

d> Power cut

CHENNAI: P ower supply will be suspended in Gopalapuram, V.O.C.Nagar, CIT Nagar I, Velachery West, Kalmandapam, Royapuram, Tiruvanmiyur, Sastri Nagar, Adyar and Anna Nagar East areas between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Thursday due to maintenance work.

Tree saplings to be distributed

The Environmental Society of Mandaveli will distribute tree saplings free of cost to residents interested in planting them during the month of March.

For details, contact phone numbers 24937060//24938368.

Help for visually impaired students

The Tamil Nadu State Non Governmental Organisations and Volunteers Resource Centre (TNVRC) is looking for readers and scribes for visually impaired students. TNVRC is a state level NGO Resource Centre set up by the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women. For further details, contact: 100, Anna Salai, Guindy, Chennai - 32. Phone numbers: 22301476/42328084.

Seminar on `Theatre for Holistic Development'

RASA - Centre for Theatre Arts & Special Needs is organising a seminar on `Theatre for Holistic Development' for teachers, special educators, parents and artistes on Sunday, March 11 at Sadguru Gnanananda Hall, T.T.K.Road, Alwarpet. Registration fee for the event is Rs.100.

Last day for registration is March 8. For further details, contact phone number 55281970 or 24939916.

College annual day

Staff members and students of G.S.S Jain College for Women celebrated its 15th annual day recently.

The chief guest, Santhosh Datta, IRS, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax and Director General of Investigations, Chennai lauded the college for its achievements.

All-religion prayer meeting

An all-religion prayer meeting was held at General Cariappa Higher Secondary School on Monday.

Over 1200 students from various schools attended the meeting with their teachers.

Blood donation

Lions Club of Avishkaar, in association with SYMA Medical Centre and Lions Blood Bank, organised a blood donation camp in Triplicane on Sunday.

About 52 units were collected in the camp.

Election cell formed

The city police will set up a special election cell for receiving and collating instructions from the Election Commission.

"The cell, consisting of ministerial and executive staff, will be headed by an assistant commissioner,"

said Greater Chennai Police Commissioner R. Nataraj. The assistant commissioner will be assisted by three inspectors, nine sub-inspectors and constables as well as four ministerial staff.

The `election control room' will start functioning from the Commissionarate within a few days.

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