FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2026

Use technology to help save lives on the road

Goa has become  a road accident hub for last one year and we have seen youth losing lives in road accidents. On Monday, 21-yr-old Sairaj Morajkar, Karaswada, Mapusa lost his life when his bike dashed concrete wall at Santacruz, Bastora. The bike went off the road and hit concrete wall hence rider received head injuries and succumbed to them. The road accidents and fatal accidents have become a daily story. Most of the cases are due to rash and negligence driving or drink-n-drive without helmet too in two-wheeler cases. Now cars have seat belt and if you don't wear it there is caution with beep sound in the car to remind of not wearing seat belt. Now two-wheeler manufacturers should come out with technology that unless rider doesn't wear helmet the bike it should not start. There should be censor or coding by which rider is made compulsorily to wear helmet by his or her own bike.  Many a times RTO stops two-wheeler riders without helmet but some escape by speeding away. It's time to save lives on road with latest technology and careful riding on roads.



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Why forewarn the KA contractor of blacklisting ?

SRIDHAR D'IYER, Caranzalem
Published May 20, 2025, 8:26 PM IST
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The Kala Academy would be closed in view of rectification works, which as per the Chief Minister will be done free of cost by the contractor by October, as per the original agreement. Subsequently, the contract would be terminated and the contractor will be blacklisted. This brings to the fore the questions as to whether in the first place the Kala Academy really required renovations costing more than Rs 60 crore. At this price, a new one could have been built. Having given…

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