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In a first, railway staff use postal ballots
The Hindu
For the first time, three railway employees in Madurai Division cast their postal vote in Tirumangalam after the Election Commission of India extended the postal ballots to essential services employee
For the first time, three railway employees in Madurai Division cast their postal vote in Tirumangalam after the Election Commission of India extended the postal ballots to essential services employees. Two loco pilots – K. Suresh and Akbhar Ali – and a travelling ticket examiner, Manoharan, used the postal ballots to cast their votes. After getting a certificate from the Nodal Officer of Madurai Railway Division that the employees would be on duty on the day of polling (April 6), they were given postal ballots by Returning Officer Soundarya (Tirumangalam Assembly constituency).![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.