
Better facilities for police now: CM
The Hindu
Pinarayi launches new police station buildings
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said the basic infrastructure facilities of the police have witnessed a considerable improvement in the last five years. “Most of the police stations are now functioning from their own buildings. The rest of the stations will get their own buildings soon,” he said while inaugurating some police station buildings and launching the construction of a few others through videoconferencing on Saturday.
The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











