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Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Sarpanchas and panchayat members were urged by Panchayats Minister Mauvin Godinho to take a more active approach to resolving the state’s garbage crisis by leaving their offices and interacting with local communities. Godinho who is also the MLA of Dabolim Constituency informed how they had tried to make the villages such as Chicalim, Bogmalo in the constituency clean and green by having a waste treatment plant- that provided water to the nearby park, having Transfer station for garbage, etc among other things to counter the menace of garbage and its disposal. Godinho called upon Block Development Officers…

Team Goemkarponn PORVORIM: In a major breakthrough Porvorim Police station staff have arrested two persons who were part of a gang which was responsible for committing house burglaries across in Goa. Two residents, one of whom is 44 years old and a habitual offender, have been taken into custody by Porvorim Police on suspicion of being involved in a string of coordinated home invasions in North Goa. Following a series of coordinated attempts by numerous police stations, the accused, identified as Maria Baptistao, a native of Benaulim, and his accomplice, Mohd Sufian, a 20-year-old BCom student from Navelim, were taken…

Team Goemkarponn MARGAO: Youth Leader Prabhav Naik said that “Red Tapism” is the cause of all problems AND Health Minister Vishwajit Rane must take note and ease the situation “I met Dr. Rajendra Borkar, Medical Superitendent of Hospicio South Goa District Hospital to discuss issues of Patient Registration,Shortage of Ambulances,Non-acceptance of Online Payments from Patients & Beds Shortage,” said Naik He further said that “Red Tapism” is the cause of all problems. Health Minister Vishwajit Rane must take note & ease the situation, stated Youth Leader Prabhav Naik. Speaking to media after his meeting with Medical Superitendent, Prabhav Naik said…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Following directions from the High Court, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will approach the State government with a proposal to conduct road carrying capacity of the iron ore transportation routes across the State. During its recent Board meeting, GSPCB resolved to write to the Government seeking permission to a Scientific Institution for conducting the road carrying capacity of each village route in the mining belt. The Board also intends to install air monitoring equipment along the routes to track the pollution level at the time of ore transportation. The Board has already moved a proposal…

Team Goemkarponn CUNCOLIM: Cuncolim saw tense moments as protesters staged a walkout to the police station and blocked the national highway, voicing their disapproval of the school and police officers for allegedly being indifferent to the September 26 assault of a Class III girl student by a classmate. According to sources, Suvarna Fatorpekar, the mother of the youngster, was informed by some classmates that the seven-year-old girl was crying when she went to pick her up from the Veroda school in Cuncolim. The mother discovered her confused and weeping daughter. After bringing her daughter to the Cuncolim PHC right away,…

New Delhi: National carrier Air India on Wednesday said that flights operated by Vistara will start using the flight code ‘AI2’ after the merger of the two airlines next month. Despite the integration on November 12, the Vistara experience will “remain the same”, said the Tata Group-owned airline. The merger involves Vistara, a joint venture between Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, and Air India. Currently, Air India uses the airline code ‘AI’ while Vistara uses ‘UK.’ According to the company, both the airlines have been working hard for over a year to ensure that the merger of the legal and…

DELHI: A 55-year-old doctor was shot dead at a private nursing home in Delhi’s Jaitpur last night, less than two months after the rape-murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. According to the staff at Nima Hospital, two teenagers reached the hospital late at night. One of them asked for a change of dressing for his injured toe. The night before, the teenager was treated at the hospital. After the dressing was done, the teenagers said they wanted a prescription and went to the cabin of Dr Javed Akhtar, a practitioner of Unani Medicine.…