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Monday, Jun 19, 2006

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Around the City

Cardiac care camp

CHENNAI: A cardiac care camp will be conducted at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, Bawa Road, Alwarpet from Monday to June 28 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Diagnostic and lab investigations such as ECG, ECHO and X-Ray chest will be done at a subsidised rate of Rs.900. For registrations, contact 2498 4949 or 93828 49613.

Art of Listening

Shiba Finearts Academy has organised a programme, `Art of Listening', which comprises yoga and bhajans starting from June 25 between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. The registration will be done on Saturdays. For details, contact 94440 10215.

Course on yoga

Anna Nagar Manavalakalai Manram Trust is organising a 12 day course on exercise, kaya kalpa and kundalini yoga from Monday. Classes will be conducted between 6.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. at Y Block, 3rd Street, Plot no. 2863, 12th Main Road, Anna Nagar. For further details, contact 2621 1357 or 1092.

State toppers felicitated

State toppers of Plus-Two and 10th Standard were felicitated at the Meelad un Nabi celebration conducted by Murthuzaviya Educational and Cultural Foundation of South India on Saturday. Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, Prince of Arcot and Mufti Mohammed Salahuddin Ayub, chief government Kazi participated.

Dental check up

Baskar Dental Foundation, T.Nagar conducted a dental check up camp in association with Rotary Club of Chennai Central for the staff of Jumbo Bag, Ponneri on Saturday.

Health camp

About 220 persons were screened at a health camp organised by Hindu Mission Hospital at Paduvancherry near Selaiyur on Sunday. A team of seven doctors treated patients in specialties including paediatrics, dental and ENT of which 17 were referred for eye surgeries and three for general surgeries.

Temple hundis broken open

Miscreants broke into a 90-year-old temple on Mint Street on Saturday and decamped with more than Rs. 25,000 from the hundis.

According to temple trustee Gyan Jain, miscreants entered the Sri Chandraprabhu Maharaja Juna Mandir by breaking open the back door on the second floor. "They entered the rangamandapam [where the deity is placed] and broke open seven hundis." Another trustee Jethmal Sandaria said thepriest, Suresh, found coins scattered all over on Sunday morning.

"No currency note was left in the hundis, which contained the offerings of the last two months. The average collection per month is around Rs. 25,000. Even without the coins, the missing cash would be around Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 30,000," said Mr. Sandaria.

Apparently, a rug from the premises was used to bundle up all the cash. Mr. Sandaria said the incident took place even though Suresh, another priest Himmat and their families lived on the first floor. "This is the second time the temple was broken into. The first one happened four years ago, said Mr. Jain.

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