Polling ends peacefully in Tirunelveli
The Hindu
‘Additional police personnel were deployed in 90 sensitive polling stations’
The district witnessed peaceful second phase polling that was held in 567 booths on Saturday to record a poll percentage of 69.16%.
Following the first phase polling conducted on last Wednesday (October 6) with 70.36% voter turnout, the second phase election was conducted to elect 629 village panchayat ward members, 88 village panchayat presidents, 60 panchayat union councilors and 6 district panchayat councilors from Nanguneri, Kalakkad, Valliyoor and Radhapuram unions.

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.











