
No early Assembly elections in Goa: CM Pramod Sawant
The Hindu
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and State BJP president Sadanand Shet Tanavade will tour the State in the next fortnight.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday ruled out speculations about early Assembly elections in the coastal State. The State Assembly polls are due in February next year. Speculations were rife about early polls after the ruling BJP began its Statewide campaign on Tuesday. Mr. Sawant and State BJP president Sadanand Shet Tanavade will tour the State in the next fortnight.
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.











