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A boy from fishing hamlet studying in a government school made his community and the entire coast here proud by making it to the International School Federation –World School Championship (ISF-WSC) Beach Volleyball, 2015 tournament that concluded in Brazil on Friday.

After the candidate list of AIADMK was released for the local body elections, nearly 20 cadres from wards 71 and 73 protested outside the party office on Huzur Road in the city on Monday.

As Mullaperiyar dam level reached 134.7ft on Saturday, about 7 ft short of the maximum permissible level, Kerala has raised concerns about possible inundation of towns downstream of the dam on the Kerala side. The increasing water level in Mullapperiyar dam is a cause for concern, said Kerala power minister M M Mani. “The state government has informed the water level status to Tamil Nadu,” he said.

The city-based National Film Archive of India (NFAI), with the help of the AVM Cine Lab in Chennai, has made and stored 35mm prints of 13 important titles of Tamil cinema, the original materials of which are likely to go bad in some years.