Govt. school students get State ranks in engg. admission
The Hindu
A student from Namakkal bagged the fourth place and two students in Erode district secured fifth and ninth place respectively among the government school students in the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissi
A student from Namakkal bagged the fourth place and two students in Erode district secured fifth and ninth place respectively among the government school students in the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission 2021 merit list that was released on Tuesday.
Deepak Kumar J.S. of Vennandhur Boys Higher Secondary School, Namakkal, scored 196.2 cut-off and bagged fourth place. School principal Mahesh Kumar said though Deepak got a place in the Top 10, he aimed to pursue MBBS studies.
He expressed confidence that the student would score high marks in NEET as well.
Hampi, the UNESCO-recognised historical site, was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire from 1336 to 1565. Foreign travellers from Persia, Europe and other parts of the world have chronicled the wealth of the place and the unique cultural mores of this kingdom built on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. There are fine descriptions to be found of its temples, farms, markets and trading links, remnants of which one can see in the ruins now. The Literature, architecture of this era continue inspire awe.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”