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Lok Sabha Polls preparations begin in Canacona Goemakrponn desk CANACONA: Government machinery of Canacona is activated in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. While Lok Sabha -2024 General Elections (Polls) will be held on different dates spread in the Seven(7)-phases across the Nation beginning 19th April’2024, elections for the two Lok Sabha (North-Goa and South-Goa) Seats in Goa will be held simultenously in phase-3 on 7th May’2024. Canacona constituency as one of the assembly segment in South –Goa LS Seat has already set the ball rolling to prepare all the 59 polling booths with all the necessary facilties and…

Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: Calangute Village Panchayat Sarpanch Joseph Sequeria today has declined to comment on Swami Bhrameshanand’s controversial remark calling Calangute as Thailand. “I cannot comment on statements made by Swami; he has spoken his stand. Someone must have given him an example which does make any difference. It’s been 15 days, only news of Calangute is coming out, rest of Goa there is nothing,” said Sequeira. He further said that people come here have good time and when they go back they say Calangute is like this and that. “Don’t simply call Calangute bad. Calangute is not bad, people…

The Parampujya Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami of Tapobhoomi, Kundaim made a shocking statement a few days ago on what he saw at the Calanagute beach. The video went viral with Swamiji saying what he saw at Calangute cannot be expressed in words and hence he urged the parents to keep their children away from such vices. In his video statement, Swamiji also found similarities between Calangute and Thailand (the Sin City). It has been more than a week and no politicians have questioned Swamiji’s statement on what he saw in Calangute and when? Local MLA Michael Lobo did make a…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Rohan Naik (32) accused of murdering Santosh Rivankar (43) is remanded to 7 days Police Custody. According to Canacona Police Inspector Harish Raut Dessai, who is personally investigating the murder case, Naik who was arrested on Monday for the murder offence of Rivankar was produced at the court of JMFC–Canacona, who remanded the accused for seven days police custody. It may be recalled that Naik (resident of Partagal) who was assisting one of his friend for constructing a house in the neighbourhood of the deceased (on whose complain – the construction was sealed by Panchayat) at Potkem-Poinguinim,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A group of residents from Panaji have moved High Court of Bombay at Goa seeking its intervention for necessary directions to the State government and IPSCDL to put in place measures to mitigate dust pollution caused due to ongoing unplanned Smart City works. The petitioners have pleaded to install permanent real time Air Ambient Quality Monitoring Stations at all important locations in the city that will help ascertain the level of pollution. “Panaji’s dust pollution has gotten worse, and unforeseen Smart City projects have also caused problems. Additionally, the GSPCB has not given the problem any attention.…

Mumbai: Amid an outcry over its announcement of a ‘pure veg’ fleet, Zomato has said all its delivery partners will continue to wear red, rolling back its decision to introduce a green uniform for those delivering food to vegetarians under the new service. “While we are going to continue to have a fleet for vegetarians, we have decided to remove the on-ground segregation of this fleet on the ground using the colour green. All our riders – both our regular fleet, and our fleet for vegetarians, will wear the colour red,” Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal tweeted this morning. Mr Goyal…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: BJP leader Pramod Sawant has become the only BJP leader to complete five years (from two terms) as Chief Minister in Goa. Though BJP came to power in the year 2000, under the leadership of Manohar Parrikar, however, he could remain in the position only for 16 months. Subsequently, when the assembly was dissolved in 2002, Parrikar was caretaker Chief Minister for four months. In 2002, after a fresh assembly election, the BJP again came to power under the leadership of Parrikar, but he could remain in office for a mere 32 months as Congress ousted the…