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Hyderabad: As the Telangana government is likely to promote eco-friendly idols for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival that begins on August 31, several departments are getting ready to distribute over six lakh clay Ganesh idols in the city and will also be setting up an additional 50 arti
owala ficial ponds for idol immersion. As part of these efforts, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation GHMC will give out four lakh clay idols while the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Auth
stanley cup uk ority HMDA and Telangana State Pollution Control Board TSPSCB will take on the assignment of one lakh idols each. Also ReadJNTU Hyderabad decides to raise fees for engineering courses At the same time, the government departments will build 50 more artificial ponds, in addition, to the present 25 artificial ponds, across the city to facilitate idol immersion. A meeting was held by the Telangana minister for animal husbandry T Srinivas Yadav on Tuesday to discuss festival arrangements, as he will be announcing the environmental conservation measures for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. The meeting was attended by Telangana home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, city mayor G Vijaya Laxmi and others. By arranging cranes, special illumination, and sanitation work to control vector-borne diseases, officials will also take up the reconstruction of roads along the idol immersion procession route. Besides the special security positioning, the construction will also include the distribution of police personnel
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Learning from adversity can be a pivotal factor in an athletes success. That
owala flasche is proving to be true for Isaiah Harris.The Lewiston native and Penn State University sophomore experienced the high of making the 800-meter final of the U.S. Olympic Trials last summer, and the low of being in contention for a spot in the Rio games in the final, only to slip to sixth place.But Harris has stayed on track, and hell have a chance to become a national champi
polene sac on in the 800 at this weekends NCAA Division I indoor championships at Texas AM University. His work ethic, his leadership skills, hes been a great value to Penn State track and field, said Nittany Lions coach John Gondak.Harris is scheduled to compete in the preliminaries on Friday at 8:10 p.m. The Big 10 champ is seeded at 1 minute, 46.65 seconds in a tightly bunched field.Top seed Patrick Joseph of Virginia Tech has clocked a 1:46.23 this winter. The top three finishers in each eight-man heat and the next two fastest finishers will move on to the finals.Harris isnt the only Mainer who will be in the NCAA field.University of Georgia sophomore Kate Hall of Casco is the No. 6 seed in the womens
brumate long jump.The Lake Region High School graduate owns a season best of 6.48 meters, or 21 feet, and like Harris will have a good chance to medal. Hall also competes Friday at 8:10 p.m.Harris qualified for the NCAA indoor meet as a freshman, but did not advance from the preliminary rounds. If there was one race Im sure hed like back its th