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Over 1,500 police personnel cast their postal votes
The Hindu
As many as 1,557 police personnel attached to the Coimbatore City and Rural police divisions cast their postal votes on Friday. A release from the district administration said of the 2,953 personnel w
As many as 1,557 police personnel attached to the Coimbatore City and Rural police divisions cast their postal votes on Friday. A release from the district administration said of the 2,953 personnel who were eligible to cast postal ballots, 847 voted at the C.S.I. Higher Secondary School, 247 at the P.R.S. ground, 252 at Aishwarya Wedding Hall in Mettupalayam, and 209 at the Nagarathar Mandapam in Pollachi. The administration said that to enable the personnel exercise their franchise it had established four places – C.S.I. Hr. Sec. School for City police personnel with votes in Mettupalayam, Sulur, Kavundampalayam, Coimbatore North, Thondamuthur, Coimbatore South, Singanallur, Kinathukadavu, Pollachi and Valparai constituencies, P.R.S. ground for personnel attached to the Rural Police division with votes in Sulur, Coimbatore North, Thondamuthur, Coimbatore South, Singanallur and Kindathukadavu, Aishwarya Wedding Hall for Rural personnel with vote in Mettupalayam and Kavundampalayam, and the Nagarathar Mandapam for the Rural personnel with vote in Pollachi and Valparai.![](/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.