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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: High Court has upheld the validity of the Goa Tax on Entry of Goods Act, 2000 on goods coming in from other states. The Court order came in view of petition filed by DTH service provider Bharti Telemedia Ltd. (BTL). The petitioner had urged that the entry tax be related to the levy of import duties under Entry 41, read with Entry 83 of List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution and that the state legislature has no legislative competence to enact the Goa Tax on Entry of Goods Act, of 2000. The court dismissed…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Hell bent to win Karnataka polls, the BJP and Congress has let down Goans on Mhadei river issue, as the national parties has assured people of Karnataka to complete Mhadei river diversion projects at the earliest. In the election manifesto released by both the parties, the focus has been on completing various irrigational projects including over river Mhadei. The manifesto released by BJP national president J P Nadda states that Karnataka will have a comprehensive irrigation system. “All irrigation projects like Bhadra, Upper Krishna, Kalasa Bhandura will be completed in a time-bound manner”. It also ensured 100…

Goemkarponn Desk PORVORIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa today has disposed Girish Chodankar’s petition stating that Speaker is bound to decide disqualification petitions in time bound manner. The HC said that but as there are 4 disqualification petitions pending and the speaker is hearing disqualification petitions, hence we are not inclined to pass any direction to the Speaker to decide Girish Chodankar’s petition within any time frame but we expect that the Speaker decides his Petition as fast as possible. “We welcome the judgement because it laid down a law to state that the HC has the power…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA : A huge fire had engulfed a hillock at Chapoli a few kilometres from the Chapoli dam in Canacona. The fire services personnel worked litrarily throughoutthe Monday night to cordon-off the forested areas from the residential places, and particularly the Chapoli dam. Incidentally, even though the fire service personnel worked through the night relentlessly, the fire could not be extinguished in any manner and there was no access to the hills and the fire kepts on raging at its free-will. However, with the cordoning-off of the residential localities, many of the areas are reportedly on evacuation standby.…

Goemkarponn Desk SIOLIM: Siolim Marna Sarpanch, Sharmila Vernekar on Tuesday voted out of office after a no-confidence motion was passed by 5-0 votes in the nine-member panchayat. Aabhay Anand Shirodkar, Manorama Manohar Govekar, Shobavati Gajanand Chodankar, Amit Krishna Morajkar, Sandesh Dinanath Hadfadkar the members of village panchayat siolim- marna had propose to move a no confidence motion against the sarpanch of v.p marna-siolim. The panch members said that she was not taking action against the illegal construction in the siolim-marna village and various illegalities committed within vp jurisdiction. And also for not taking the members of panchayat in confidence while…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: Tense situation was prevailed at Usgao and Murdi side of Khandepar river over construction of Bandhara. The proposed Bandhara will store water to meet drinking water requirement at Priol and other parts. However Sonarbaag Usgao side as well Murdi Khandepar side locals strongly opposed the project fearing flooding of houses in monsoon. The Village Panchayats of Curti Khandepar and Usgao Ganjem had already passed resolution in gramasaba opposing the project. The Locals at both sides said there is no proper verification of documents and legals heirs are not taken into confidence.The locals said they are even ready…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: The Labours Day was celebrated on Monday by ‘We for Palolem'(WFP), a newly formed NGO in Canacona. According to WFP president Gaspar Coutinho, a number of people working on various government department, school teaching and non- teaching staff, police department staff, people working in bank’s, hospital staff, CMC labours and some private sectors, especially the lower rung workers were brought together and a small programe was done, and these workers were appreciated for their hardwork that they put in to serve the public in their own ways. The chief Guest Dr.Saurabh S Gaitonde, while Guest of honour:…