VSSC cargo blocked at Thumba
The Hindu
Reportedly, the demonstrators demanded a huge sum for allowing the cargo to be unloaded.
Thumba witnessed tense moments on Sunday after a hydraulic axle trailer transporting a massive settling chamber to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) for the trisonic wind tunnel project was blocked by a section of the local residents. Ignoring the Sunday lockdown curbs, a crowd had gathered in the vicinity of the VSSC gates, preventing the trailer from entering the ISRO facility.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











