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Mum on Sunburn, minister stands exposed

Sudin Dhavalikar, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Housing while speaking to reporters on Wednesday was seen refusing to comment on Sunburn and claiming that the decision to hold the above festival rests exclusively with the government of Goa and no one can challenge it.Now, in which world Dhavalikar is living today and why can't anyone challenge the government's decision in Goa?  Aren't we Goans living in a democratic country or are we living in a fundamentalist country like Afghanistan, if not Syria? Well, when Dhavalikar can  speak against other people's clothes and those wearing bikinis on our Goan beaches then why not on Sunburn? Or is it because he knows that if he goes to say anything against Sunburn then he will be unceremoniously kicked out from the cabinet? I think Dhavalikar should henceforth stop interfering in other people's personal affairs, i.e. eating/dressing habits etc and giving his own big lectures  about the importance of preserving one's own 'culture' if he cannot utter a single word on controversial Sunburn.




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Mapping Panaji’s drainage network need of the hour

SRIDHAR D'IYER, Caranzalem
Published Dec 5, 2024, 8:21 PM IST
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Before the monsoon, the Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) had desilted two Portuguese-era stormwater drains, situated between the market and Old Education Department building and from the Church Square to Custom House. Decades of accumulated silt had reduced the carrying capacity of rainwater from Altinho and other areas to the Mandovi River. This regularly led to water-logging in Panaji.  In a letter it was suggested that the IPSCDL should identify…

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