THURSDAY, 27 AUGUST 2026

Drainage system in Chandor market fully clogged

The Chandor Cavorim village market's drainage system is fully filled with mud and other materials like plastic bags and plastic bottles which the village panchayat has to clean and clear before the monsoon season starts to avoid flooding in the rain. Most of the drainage system needs maintenance work as broken, concrete blocks have fallen in the drainage, dry palm leaves and other materials thrown in the drainage system which should be cleared as soon as possible. Mud is obstructing the flow of water leading to water logging and potentially impacting sanitation and health. Even the chicken waste from the market area are thrown in the paddy fields near the Alma Khuris from which emanates a horrible smell. The secretary of village panchayat talks with the people as if they are servile to him but he has to realise that he is a public servant and complete works that will benefit the people.


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Time to rethink India-Pak strategy

NELSON LOPES, Chinchinim
Published May 11, 2025, 11:09 PM IST
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The lingering animosity between India and Pakistan, rooted in the traumatic partition of 1947, continues to cast a long shadow over South Asia. Terrorism, employed as a tool of low-intensity conflict by Pakistan, has persisted for decades. Neither the Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971 nor the Kargil conflict in 1999 succeeded in altering the deep-seated hostility. Former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s historic 1999 Lahore visit, intended as a goodwill gesture, was…

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