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Kanimozhi continues electioneering
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Thoothukudi MP K. Kanimozhi continued her second day electioneering in Radhapuram, Nangnueri and Ambasamudram Assembly segments where she met people from various walks of life. Ms. Kanimzohi, who started her second day electioneering in the coastal hamlet of Koottapuli, met the fishermen in the beach and the parish priest at his official residence close to the church. After meeting the villagers, she opened the additional classrooms, built in Sri Muthuramman High School at Kannankulam on an outlay of ₹ 25 lakh released from her Local Area Development Fund. Since a good number of youth from Koodankulam area, who are facing cases for reportedly participating in the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project struggle, cannot get passport and hence, cannot even apply for overseas assignments, Ms. Kanimozhi met them at Koodankulam and Chettikulam. She also met the roadside vendors selling snacks, vegeta
Abandoned firecrackers found
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An unintended firecracker burst with potentially serious repercussions for workers engaged under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme was averted but for the accidental discovery of seemingly abandoned 49 high power firecrackers in a sack from the Periyar Valley Canal at Chunagumveli near Aluva on Friday.
The Edathala police rushed to the spot, and aided by the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, confirmed them to be firecrackers of the variant usually used to crank up decibel levels to add colour to festivals in places of worship. The workers engaged in cleaning the canal that had been dry for over a month had found the sackful of firecrackers.