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Independent candidates file nominations
The Hindu
As the political parties have started announcing their candidates for the upcoming urban civic polls to be held on February 19, the independent candidates are filing their nominations for the election
As the political parties have started announcing their candidates for the upcoming urban civic polls to be held on February 19, the independent candidates are filing their nominations for the election.
In Tirunelveli Corporation, 6 nominations were received on Tuesday while the municipalities of Ambasamudram (7), Vickramasingapuram (1) and Kalakkadu (2) received 10 nominations. For the 273 wards in the 17 town panchayats, 27 nominations were filed on Tuesday to take the total number of nominations filed so far to 51.
In Tenkasi district, 27 nominations were filed on Tuesday for 180 wards in 6 municipalities in the district while 53 nominations were received for 260 wards in 17 town panchayats.
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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.