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New Delhi: France has submitted the final price offer to India for the 26 Rafale Marine Jet deal just ahead of the scheduled visit of Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to the country. Defence sources told ANI that the best and final price offer has been submitted to the Indian authorities by the French side for the project and a significant price reduction has been given after tough negotiations in the proposed contract. India and France are negotiating the deal for buying 26 Rafale Marine jets which are going to be deployed on the INS Vikrant aircraft carrier and…

Team Goemkarponn PONDA: Today, along with South Goa Member of Parliament Capt. Viriato Fernandes, GPCC President Amit Patkar and Congress leader Rajesh Verenkar visited the Sub District Hospital in Ponda and learnt that there is a dearth of health facilities here. BJP has pushed this hospital into mental stress and sickness. Sub District Hospital at Ponda was built by the Congress government to provide better health facilities to people. However, it lacks the required workforce, along with doctors, specialists and equipment under this Heartless BJP government. We built projects for people, but BJP Govt failed to maintain them. Despite a…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: In a massive response, hundreds of people have turned up for Cancer Screening camp in Canacona as 285 have screened themselves and more people live for screening. By 12.00 pm 236 people had registered, however by 1 pm over 285 people were screened and the number is still growing as people keep on coming for the camp. The Cancer Screening camp is held at Community Health Centre (CHC), Canacona organised by the Government of Goa in coordination with Goa Medical College and Hospitals, Bambolim on Cancer Screening Abhiyan at Canacona Taluka. The doctors in the camp are…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Amidst Hindhavi Swaraj Sangthan calls to boycott outstation Muslim traders and non-Hindus carrying trades in Canacona, and to close down Weekly Saturday Bazaar to stop entry of Muslim traders from outside the taluka, the Saturday’s weekly bazaar today saw only local traders in the market area. The entire market area where dozens of traders mostly coming from outside the State, failed to turn –up and participate in the weekly bazaar. However, locals many of whom are hilly-growers who otherwise regularly sell their produce by putting up road-side temporary stalls, are seen at the weekly bazaar displaying their…

There has been a kind of unrest amongst BJP legislators, with the MLAs and politicians speaking against one another prompting the State BJP to issue diktats. Goemkarponn Editor SURAJ NANDREKAR questions State BJP President Sadanand Shet Tanavade on the issue. He says it will take some time for MLAs to understand BJP culture. Excerpts: Suraj Nandrekar: In the recent past we have seen your own party MLAs and Ministers speaking against each other and the government in particular. You too a statement against such comments. The height was Minister Vishwajit Rane asking people to look for other alternatives if jobs…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: The old Sulabh Sauchalaya is finally demolished to make way for the new 67- lakhs worth 7-seater Sulabh Toilet block for which the foundation stone laying ceremony was held two months ago. Incidentally, the name plaque of the Foundation Stone which was installed on the wall of the existing Toilet block and ceremoniously inaugurated at the hands of Speaker and Canacona MLA Ramesh Tawadkar is also razed and brought down is part of the broken debris/remains of the demolished structure. Interestingly, Neither the contractor nor the working party took note and salvaged the Foundation Stone Plaque carrying…

New Delhi: Ahead of the home Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) later this year, Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell believes that playing well against the Indian spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja will be key for them. The ace bowlers have emerged as one of the best spin-bowling pair in recent times. In the first Test against Bangladesh in Chennai, Ashwin and Jadeja shared 13 scalps between them across two innings to guide India to a dominating 280-run win. For the five-Test series in Australia, the duo’s performance will make a huge impact on India’s chances of retaining the series for…