
Doubts over President’s southern sojourn
The Hindu
With the threat of the new variant of COVID looming large, doubts were expressed in official circles over the southern sojourn of President Ram Nath Kovind here from December 20 to 25.Nonetheless, off
With the threat of the new variant of COVID looming large, doubts were expressed in official circles over the southern sojourn of President Ram Nath Kovind here from December 20 to 25.
Nonetheless, officials are going ahead with arrangements at Rashtrapati Nilayam in Bolarum for the annual event in December, which was dropped last year due to the COVID pandemic.
The officials started making arrangements after an initial communication about the dates were sent to the State government.

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.











