Grappling with a serious power deficiency, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board on Saturday discharge the plan for power cuts - one hour for Chennai and double that in suburbs, from 10 am to 6 pm because of people, who suffered they would have to spend a few hours of uncomfortable nights with no fans and air-conditioners, have been give a release, with the TNEB resorting to power cuts only throughout the day.

Gopalapuram and Poes Garden which house VVIP resident’s chief minister M Karunanidhi and AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa as well endure the power cuts. Whereas the chief minister's household will sweat it out among 3 and 4 pm, power supply to Jayalalithaa's bungalow will be cut between 11 am and 12 noons. The city has been separated into four zones south, north, west and central to make easy the power cut schedules.

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St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai organized South Zone inter-school sports festival for three days from July 12, above 5000 competitors, drawn from about 150 schools from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala. More than 130 schools from Tamil Nadu only will be part of the five-discipline event. The events for both boys and girls are basketball, ball badminton, kabaddi and volleyball. The football event would see as several as 60 schools participating.

Competition in basketball and volleyball are probable to be the highlight appreciation to the participation of Mount Carmel School (Kottayam), St. Joseph’s and SDNT (Thrissur).
The track and field championships will be detained separately on July 19 and 20 because a greater part of the athletes are to be part of the State junior meet to be detained at Thiruvarur next weekend.

The winner of every discipline will obtain Rs. 6000, the runner-up Rs. 4000 and the third and fourth-placed teams getting home Rs. 3000 and Rs. 2000. For athletics, the first prize cash will be Rs. 500 with Rs. 300 and 200 for the second and third places.
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