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 ~ Echoes of Earth, India’s greenest festival, encouraged the utilisation of recycled scrap, waste materials in the construction of the stage decor and art installations across the festival site. Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Echoes of Earth, India’s greenest festival that recently concluded its maiden Goa edition, set the precedent for other large-format festivals in terms of sustainable design by crafting the decor from recycled materials. Showcasing its core ethos of sustainability and spreading awareness about Goa’s rich biodiversity and the Western Ghats through art, music and culture, the festival ensured that the stages and art installations present onsite were crafted from…

  Goa Govt Feels Declaration of TIGER RESERVE will not serve any SIGNIFICANT Purpose Neither will it be feasible in view of availability of relatively small Protected Areas and large population living in and around these PAs SURAJ NANDREKAR/ Goemkarponn PANAJI: The Goa State Wildlife Board is of the opinion that the declaration of already notified Protected Areas in Goa as Tiger Reserve will not serve any significant purpose and neither will it be feasible in view of availability of relatively small PAs and large population living in and around these PAs The Board also feels that the constitution of…

Sonia Gandhi would be the second member of her family to enter the Rajya Sabha after former prime minister Indira Gandhi JAIPUR: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi filed her nomination papers from for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan on Wednesday. Her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also accompanied her to the state Assembly in Jaipur where she filed her nomination papers. Confirming the development, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that Gandhi choosing Rajasthan as her Rajya Sabha constituency will send a positive message among the party cadre and to the people. “She could…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The owner of 31 villas in Sebastian Vaddo, Anjuna, Vianaar Construction Pvt Ltd (La Olalian), has been fined Rs 2.77 crore by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) for operating without a sewage treatment facility and permission. Asking “why you should not pay environmental compensation of Rs 2,77,25,000 to the Board for violation under Air and Water pollution Act,” the Board served the company with a show-cause notice on February 12. The Board has also noted that, although being used for commercial tourism, the villas are not registered with the Tourism Department. In a notification that…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: The Mapusa police detained four individuals from various regions of North Goa on suspicion of fabricating PAN and Aadhaar cards. Mukund Sakharam Raut of Sal-Bicholim filed a complaint on February 12 against an unidentified individual for creating his phony Aadhaar and PAN cards and utilizing them at TJSB Bank in Mapusa to conduct fraudulent transactions. In order to find the offenders, teams of employees from the Mapusa police station assembled, and four people were found and apprehended. The defendants have been identified as Rahul Padloskar (38), of Panaji, Devanand Kavlekar (43) of Pilerne, Gautam Korgaonkar (38), and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The AAP and Congress are on a collision course again over the sharing of seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with the Arvind Kejriwal-led party on Tuesday announcing its MLA as the nominee of the INDIA alliance for the South Goa seat, currently represented by the Grand Old Party. Goa state Aam Aadmi Party president Amit Palekar said the party has decided to field Benaulim MLA Venzy Viegas from South Goa and sought to blame Congress for the apparent delay in picking a candidate. “The last meeting of the INDIA alliance was held 30 days back,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The INDIA block has collapsed in Goa, and people have lost confidence in the Congress, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its party MLA as the opposition alliance’s candidate from the South Goa Lok Sabha constituency. AAP’s state unit president Amit Palekar announced that Venzy Viegas, a legislator from the Benaulim constituency, is the nominee of the INDIA block and appealed to other parties in the Opposition to support him. Notably, South Goa, one of the two Lok Sabha seats in the coastal state, is currently represented by Congress…