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Chandrayaan-3 landing point name has no context

Naming the Chandrayaan-3 landing point on the south pole of the the moon by Narendra Modi as Shiv Sakthi is completely inappropriate. The mission was a marvellous  technological achievement by ISRO and in line with that the touch down area should have been named from a technological context or after our pioneering space scientists like Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan or the like. Naming it Shiv Shakti has no context and the PM has no right to usurp the naming of the area since it should have been left to the operating agency like ISRO in this context.



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Addiction of kids to tobacco increasing in tribal schools

SHANTARAM WAGH, Pune
Published Aug 27, 2023, 11:01 PM IST
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The news was recently read that nearly 52 per cent of children living in tribal schools and hostels in Nagpur division are addicted to tobacco or tobacco products. Not only this, there are figures that as many as 3,487 children studying in classes VIII and IX in Nagpur division may be at risk of mouth cancer. This is shocking. This includes boys as well as girls.What's more, 22 per cent of the school teachers also have this addiction. All in all, this habit of tobacco…

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