Woman drowns off Polem

THE GOAN NETWORKPublished Nov 29, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

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CANACONA: A 48-year-old woman from Polem-Loliem drowned after a huge wave threw her in the Arabian Sea at Polem beach on Saturday.

According to Canacona Police, Ranju Naik was hunting shell fish (Kalvam) on a sea rock at Polem shore when a huge wave hit the rock, due to which the woman fell in the sea and drowned.

Police said others who were in the locality raised an alarm, but Naik could not be traced for some time. Later, the lifeguards pulled her from the sea water. She was rushed to the Community Health Center, where doctors declared her dead on arrival.

Police informed that the body will be referred for post mortem and is investigating the case.

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Talk given on LTA systems at PCCE

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Published Nov 29, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

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Talk given on LTA systems at PCCEPANAJI: The department of Mechanical Engineering, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering (PCCE) organized an inter-disciplinary talk by Dr RS Pant, Professor, Aerospace Engineering department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on the topic 'Design and Development of Lighter Than Air' systems (LTA) on November 26, in the PCCE auditorium. Dr Pant made a presentation on LTA systems, which are aerial platforms that overcome gravity primarily…