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Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA : A Police-driver is accused of ‘Attempt to Kidnap’ a senior citizen, residing in his neighborhood at Khotigao village. One of the Son of the Sr. Citizen, claiming he has foiled the attempt to kidnap by timely interference on Sunday, filed a complaint with the Canacona Police Station and Canacona Dy. Collector demanding investigation and action against the policeman. According to the complaint by Shrikant Zilu Gaonkar of Barddem-Khotigao, about 300 m from his house, he (Shrikant) noticed one Sandesh Purso Gaonkar taking/walking along holding the hands of his father Zilu Gaonkar (72). Surprised on seeing his…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023 will be used to teach students at the foundation level in this academic year. Teachers will be given copies of the framework in English, Marathi and Konkani. However, for the inclusion of state relevant topics in the curriculum a State specific framework will be designed. The committee headed by educationist Anil Samant will be responsible for designing the State Specific framework. The committee will submit its report in next 6 months, following which state specific content will be incorporated in the curriculum. State government will implement National Education Policy (NEP)…

Goemkarponn Desk CANAOCNA – Mandovi Parivar, Canacona deafeated Mega Boys, Poinguinim to clinch the maker Mans Trophy. The tournament was organised by Makermans Sports & Cultural Club at Painguinim, Canacona. In which altogether 16 teams from Canacona Taluka participated and fought for the honours. The final match was played of two innings between Mandovi Boys and Mega Boys. After winning the toss, Mega Boys decided to Bat first and in the first 5 overs scored 57runs by loosing 2wkts. In reply, Mandovi boys scored 110 runs in 5 overs by loosing a lone wicket. In the 2nd inning Mega boys…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Union Minister for State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey today announced to digitize the Biodiversity Registers across India. Choubey was addressing the celebration of International Day of Biodiversity & Launch of People’s Biodiversity Register in the capital. Recording biodiversity through People’s Biodiversity Register will help us meet the challenges of the future. We are converting these biodiversity registers into electronic documents soon,” said MoS Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey If we protect the environment, the environment in return will protect us. If we don’t give back as much as we take from the environment, the balance in nature…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: The strong and gusty winds late Monday night, have caused severe damages to property, while throwing the entire Canacona taluka in darkness throughout the night. Canacona fire services were kept on their toes throughout Tuesday beginning late Monday night as the fire-station was goaded with as many as over 20 calls of damages due to tree-falling on houses, vehicles, electricity alignments, causing Road-blockades, etc. With the temperatures soaring up throughout Monday, light-to-moderate lightnings with unnoticeable thundering began to illuminate the dusky skies past the Sunset, only to escalate past 10 pm with strong and gusty winds with…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: The Much awaited development works on NH at Nageshim Bandora Junction to get Underpass , while Khandepar new bridge will get approach road. This two major works along with service road at KTC Bus Stand and service road at Kerya would be done by costing Rs 72 crore. The work order will be given next month and the Contractor would began work on ramp of new Khandepar bridge as well as underpass at KTC Bus Stand. Both the works are expected to complete by December this year. The officials said four years back the KTC Bus Stand…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Hardeep S. Puri, Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs and Petroleum and Natural Gas apprised the members of the consultative committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs about the progress of Smart Cities Mission. He further stated that the implementation of the Mission at city level is done by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), playing an instrumental role in monitoring the projects to utilize the full potential of this path-breaking mission. The Minister stated that India’s urban future will draw heavily from the innovations being nurtured in these 100 smart cities. Smart Cities Mission launched…