TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2026

CHOGM road being dug up all over again

CHOGM road in Porvorim  is under attack once again. This time however, it is the sewerage works that are underway by a private agency, that is engaged in digging up the road at several places, to push through a 20-inch sewer pipe, by boring through hard soil and rock. A few of these pits have been back-filled, leaving behind loose earth and large craters that are proving dangerous to motorists. We are thus back to square one it seems, as the beautifully tarred road is once again in a bad state. It is not known how long  the residents of the area and motorists will have to put up with this inconvenience and danger, unless the PWD takes up the matter on a war footing to ensure that the dug up portions are restored to their original condition by the contractor soon after completion of the works.


   

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Chandrayaan-3 landing point name has no context

S KAMAT, Alto Santa Cruz
Published Aug 28, 2023, 7:06 PM IST
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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…

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