
YSR Congress will win hands down in GVMC standing committee polls, says Minister
The Hindu
‘There is no need for elections, but TDP is insisting on them’
All the 10 YSR Congress Party ward corporators, who have been identified to contest the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) standing committee elections scheduled for Tuesday, will win without any doubts, said Tourism Minister Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao. Addressing the media here on Monday, he said that the party performed extremely well in all the civic body elections, across the State and it won 47 out of 50 seats in the recently held elections in Eluru.
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.











