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Wednesday, Jul 05, 2006

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Around The City

Power shutdown

CHENNAI: Power supply will be suspended in parts of Kodungaiyur on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for maintenance work.

Blood donation

The Tamil Nadu branch of Indian Red Cross Society held a blood donation camp at the local head office of State Bank of India in Greams Road on Sunday. Meenakshi Sundaram, assistant general manager, organised the camp.

Meet on business process outsourcing

Women Entrepreneurship Promotional Association will hold a two-day workshop on business process outsourcing at Hotel Palmgrove on July 10 and 11 from 10 a.m. A field visit will be conducted on both days. For details call Prema Desikan at: 22440683/94440-44068.

Talk on flower therapy

Dignity Foundation will host a talk on `Emotional freedom through flower therapy for senior citizens' on Thursday from 5 p.m. at the YWCA conference hall on Poonamallee High Road in Chennai. For details call: 26473165.

Rotary governor takes over

Rotarian J.B. Kamdar, who has been involved with Rotary Clubs for over 15 years, took over as Rotary district governor of RI District 3230. Kamdar is the managing director of Nadi group of companies.

Bhajan competition

The bhajan competition for schools (maximum of 12 students including instruments) will be held this month. The preliminary round will be held on July 15 and the semi-finals and finals will be conducted on July 22. The venue for all programmes is Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan in Mylapore. Interested schools can contact Sridhar of Bhaktha Swaraa Bhajan Mandali, 29, Mangadasamy Street, Nungambakkam at 42137491/93811 51434 or Muthukrishnan at 24422790/98412 52346.

Academy of Excellence launched

Frontline Academy of Excellence - FACE was launched on Sunday by V.V. Subramanian, principal of Vivekananda College, Mylapore. FACE founder, P. Veeraraghavan will impart training to frontline staff of small medium and big organisations. FACE can be reached at 22347951 or 99401 83814.

Dental camp

About 200 persons were screened at a free dental camp held by Baskar Dental Foundation of T. Nagar at Illalur village in Tiruporur last week. M. Shanmugam, president of Illalur Village Welfare Society organised the camp. Beneficiaries received tooth brush, tooth powder and diet instruction.

Placement training for graduates

The Academy for Pharmaceuticals Selling Expertise will conduct a placement training programme for unemployed graduates aged below 26 with M.Sc., B. Sc., B.Pharm., MBA and BBA degrees. Sri Sankari Ammal Charitable Trust of Swamimalai will sponsor the programme.

To register contact: 24615631/24956006.

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