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Ramanavami celebration

CHENNAI: Vedasreni Bajana Sabha will conduct the 54th Ramanavami celebration at the sabha premises on Brahmin Street, Velachery, from April 6 to 9. The celebrations will feature discourses, sahasranama arachana and annadhanam. Sita Kalyanam will be held on Sunday.

`Vedupari' festival

on April 10

The annual `Thiruvedupari' festival, of the Kalyana Ranganatha Swamy-Thirumangai Azhwar temple at Thiruvali Thirunagari, will be held at Vedarajapuram near Sirkazhi on April 10. The festival is part of the 10-day `brahmotsavam'. The idol of Kalayana Ranganathar will be taken to Thiruvali for performing the kalyana utsavam and while returning to Thirunagari, the `vedupari' will be held.

Change of venue for contact classes

The personal contact programme for II and III year undergraduate courses and second year post-graduate courses of the Institute of Distance Education of the University of Madras, originally scheduled to be held at Presidency College on April 8-9 will be held at the institute at Chepauk.

Free counselling

Wisdom Medical Research Foundation will offer free round-the-clock consultation and counselling for alcohol/drug abuse from April 8 to 12 under the `Punnar Jeevan Project.' For details contact: 044-24964919/24964404.

Dutch education fair

New Directions-Overseas Education will hold a Dutch education fair on Thursday at Hotel Quality Inn Sabari in

T. Nagar. Six universities from the Netherlands are participating.

Seminar on bio-diesel

A seminar on bio-diesel Jatropha and Pungamia intercropping will be held in the city on Sunday at Hotel Peninsula, T. Nagar.

Topics such as nursery development, cultivation, profitable intercropping, processing, oil-extraction, arranging bank loans and preparing project reports will be discussed. For details: call `Naveena Vaelanmai': 94441-46807/94442-83129/42142304.

Meet on astronomy

Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre, in collaboration with Tamil Nadu Astronomy Association, will conduct a national conference on astronomy and planetarium science from April 29-May 1. Some 200 amateur astronomers from across the country will participate. The last date for registration is April 21. For details call the Convenor, NATCAPS-2006, C/o, TNSTC, Gandhimandapam Road, Guindy. Ph: 044-24915250.

Office shifted

The office of the executive engineer, AUA Division, CMWSS Board, which was located at 4 New street, Alandur, has been shifted to T.S. Krishna Nagar Main Road, Mogappair. New phone number: 26562457 & 26562458. Consumers in Mogappair East, West, Anna Nagar Extension I & II may contact the above address with queries regarding supply and sewerage services.

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