Memorial Lecture
Justice K T Thomas will deliver the third memorial lecture as part of the third death anniversary of Advocate V G Govindan Nair (former Director General of Prosecutions) here. The topic of the lecture is ‘Constitutionality of Death Penalty’, the date June 15 and the venue Symphony Hall, Mascot Hotel.
The memorial lecture is being organised by Trivandrum Bar Association and the Saji Olympic Charitable Trust. Former Speaker A C Jose will inaugurate the function. District Judge K P Indira will deliver the keynote address. Bar Council of Kerala chairman C Sreedharan Nair, TRIDA chairman P K Venugopal and Trivandrum Bar Association president K P Jayachandran will be present at the function.
Mental Maths
Eight students from Kerala have bagged the first and second prizes in the Mental Arithmetic Olympiad held in Singapore. Four students bagged the first prize in the Olympiad, which was attended by ten students from the country.
R K Erthika, Krishna Praveen (Sree Gokulam Public School, Attingal), M R Bhagyalakshmi (Mother India Public School, Chavarkodu) and Abhijith (Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Thycaud) were the four students who bagged the first prize in the competition.
Abhiram Krishna (St Thomas, Thiruvananthapuram), Bala Yogesh (Loyola School), S Panchami (Sree Gokulam, Attingal) and Maheshwari ( Sacred Heart Convent, Anchuthengu) were the students who bagged the second prize at the Olympiad.
All the students had participated in the various programmes of the CMA, which offers a multimedia-based, unique, proven and trusted programme that aims at the overall development of a child, said CMA India training director Rekha, CMA Centre principal Abhilash and CMA Academic Council chairman Sudheer Kumar at a news meet. They said that CMA’s vision is to propagate a mental arithmetic study system worldwide. ENS
Fever: Camp Held
In view of the increase in the number of fever cases in the district, a health awareness conference and medical camp was conducted at Sreekariyam the other day, which was attended by hundreds of people.
Inaugurating the conference and medical camp, M A Vahid MLA said that the government has taken several steps to prevent the spread of viral fever in the district. He also asked residents’ associations to cooperate with the doctors for preventing the spread of the epidemic. The residents’ associations have a major role in arresting the spread of viral fever and other epidemics through various awareness programmes, Vahid said.
The health awareness conference and medical camp was organised by the District Information Office and the local unit of Federation of Residents’ Associations Thiruvananthapuram.
During the programme, Pangapara health unit administrative medical officer P S Indu conducted a class on the ways of preventing the spread of viral fever and other epidemics. Medicines were also distributed free of cost at the medical camp.
Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Education Standing Committee chairperson K S Sheela, Corporation councillors B Vijayakumar and S Vijayakumari and Federation of Residents’ Associations second region president K G Babu Vattaparambil were present, among others, at the function.
