Republic Day celebrated sans fanfare
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Welfare assistance distributed and officials honoured for meritorious service
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Welfare assistance distributed and officials honoured for meritorious service
The 72nd Republic Day celebrations were held at VOC Stadium in Palayamkottai on Tuesday without any cultural event by school students and public participation due to restrictions imposed by the State Government across the State in the wake of COVID-19.
Collector V. Vishnu inspected the guard of honour after unfurling the national flag and took salute from the police, fire and rescue services personnel and home guards. He honoured 399 officials from various government departments including 109 from police, 136 from Fire and Rescue Services, 70 from revenue, 20 from municipal administration, Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital and from other departments on the occasion for their meritorious service to the public, especially during the pandemic. He distrib
Remembering Subramania Bharathi
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Minister for Information and Publicity Kadambur C. Raju garlands the statue of poet Mahakavi Bharathiyar at Ettayapuram Mani Mandapam in Thoothukudi district on Friday. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT
Even as usual garlanding of the statue of poet Subramania Bharathi marked his 134th birth anniversary at various parts of the city on Friday, the AIADMK celebrated the occasion in a highly commendable fashion by distributing poems and biography of the legendary poet to students of Tamil literature. Whenever the birth anniversary of Bharathi is observed here every year, political parties and a few organisations would garland the life-size statue of the national poet at Tirunelveli Junction and administer pledge to the students in the classroom of MDT Higher Secondary School where he studied. A few schools would also conduct competitions to glorify Bharathi.