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PKN Girls H.S. School, Thirumangalam

"Mupperum Vizha" was celebrated on the premises of PKN Girls H.S. School, Thirumangalam, to honour teachers who had helped students score cent per cent results in SSLC and 97.5 per cent in Std. XII exams. R. Chokalingam, president of Kannadasan Narpani Mandran, who was the chief guest spoke on the need for `knowledge-based' education and distributed prizes to teachers for their hard work.

The school president, S. Manisekera Nadar, and secretary, M. Sanjeevi Malayan Nadar, spoke. C.P. Chinnasamy Nadar, S. Moscow Nadar and P. Ganagurusamy Nadar distributed prizes to the students. Teachers C. Ponnulangi, T. Nagarathinam, K. Parameswari and A. Christi Latha were felicitated.

Source: Hindu

Highways inagurating Foundation Stone laying ceremony for the four - laning of the Madurai-Virudhunagar section

Thiru. T.R. Baalu, Hon’ble Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways inagurating Foundation Stone laying ceremony for the four - laning of the Madurai-Virudhunagar section On NH-7 , Thirumangalam, Madurai District on 2^nd September 2005. Also seen is , Thiru.P. Mohan,M.P, Thiru. K.H. Muniyappa, Hon’ble union Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, Thiru. N.S.V. Chitthan, M.P, Thiru. Era. Vetrikondan, Member of National Road Safety Council

8 MDMK men held under POTA

Madurai, July 9 2002
Invoking POTA for the first time in Tamil Nadu, eight MDMK men, including a former MP and a former MLA were today arrested after non-bailable warrants were obtained for their recent pro-LTTE statements, even as Vaiko, against whom a warrant could not be obtained, announced that he would return to Chennai on July 11, as scheduled.

The arrested included former MP Ganesamurthy and former MLA P.S. Manian. Magistrate S. Venkatachalapathy declined to issue a warrant against Vaiko, the police said.

The pro-LTTE remarks were made by the eight at a public meeting at Thirumangalam, about 30-km from here, on June 29, following which cases were registered against them under POTA, the Unlawful Activities Act and the IPC.

The police said those arrested from Madurai and its outskirts included A. Sundaram, Nagarajan, P.S. Manian, Pulavar Sivandhi Appan, Bhoominathan, Madurai Ganesan, from Sivaganga, Veera Elavarasan, and from Erode, Ganesamurthy. The arrested were taken to Thirumangalam.

Ganesamurthy, after his arrest, told reporters that they were “rewarded” by the government for their support to the Sri Lankan Tamils, who were fighting for their rights in their homeland.

Meanwhile, MDMK chief Vaiko today charged the AIADMK government with letting loose repression against MDMK men by arresting main leaders of his party by invoking provisions of POTA.

Describing the arrests as “political vendetta”, in a statement from Chicago, he appealed to the party volunteers to maintain calm and restraint, without giving room for violence.

He said he would be returning to Chennai as scheduled on July 11.

The MDMK presidium Chairman, Mr L. Ganesan, in a statement, said a conspiracy has been hatched to arrest Vaiko on his return. He said the MDMK would go ahead with its agitational programme on July 12, holding demonstrations in all taluk and district headquarters.

Mr Ganesan alleged that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was bent upon portraying LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran and the Sri Lankan Tamils, who were fighting for protecting their “self-respect”, as terrorists and those who were supporting them like Vaiko as “anti-nationals”. PTI




Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020710/nation.htm#1