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Temples closed to devotees till August 3
The Hindu
Collector J. Meghanath Reddy has ordered closure of all temples in the district for three days till August 3.As per the standard operating procedure to contain COVID-19 pandemic, closure of temples ha
Collector J. Meghanath Reddy has ordered closure of all temples in the district for three days till August 3. As per the standard operating procedure to contain COVID-19 pandemic, closure of temples has been announced ahead of Aadi Kiruthigai and Aadi Perukku, when a large number of devotees are likely to throng various temples. However, routine and special pujas on festival days will be conducted by priests without participation of devotees, he said in a statement.![](/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.