Harish flags off mobile fish outlet vehicles
The Hindu
Seventy vehicles will head for districts, says Talasani
Finance Minister T. Harish Rao said the State government has brought about a paradigm shift in fisheries by developing it from import of fish to export. Earlier, the fisheries industry was understood as limited to Coastal Andhra, a notion which has been turned on its head by the Telangana government. Along with the Minister for Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Talasani Srinivas Yadav, he flagged off 117 vehicles, which had been distributed to women beneficiaries from self help groups on Saturday, for them to run mobile fish retail outlets.
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.











