AERIAL VIEW Forget 24×7 water supply Mr Shirodkar, people of coastal areas like the Calangute, Candolim Sinquerim, Reigs Magos, Anjuna and so on are struggling to get even a 2.47 minute water supply daily. If the Water Resource Minister is ignorant of the fact that the people of these areas have to wait for three days to get their water, he must get to know them. Several memorandums and protests have gone on deaf ears. PWD water tankers which supply water is become another huge scam under the guise of water supply to people as people complain they get one…
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Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Former Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said that Goa government has no option but to notify Mhadei Tiger Reserve by October 24, 2023, as the Supreme Court has refused to stay the order of High Court. “On July 24, 2023, the Goa Bench of Bombay High Court, in response to some petitions, directed the Goa government to declare Mhadei as a Tiger Reserve. It gave the Goa government three months to do so. The government of Goa then approached the Supreme Court to nullify the order of the High Court. But on September…
With their victory over England last night, Afghanistan, the team dominated by T20 globetrotters, prove they are not going to be pushovers in this World Cup. “Tabhi aap keh rahe ho ye choti team hai, jis din badi team ko gira denge us din aap bologe ye badi team hai (you are saying they are a small team, the day they beat a big team they will become a big team)” Afghanistan mentor Ajay Jadeja was candid in response to a question on his side’s inability to beat the big teams, even after coming close on few occasions in the…
CANACONA: In a first after months of last assembly elections, a joint meeting for various upcoming projects in Canacona municipal area was held in the absence of Canacona MLA/Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar by GSUDA Officials/Consultants with the Canacona Municipal Council on Friday. According to sources in Speakers office, the Speaker (on an official foreign tour) directed for holding a joint meeting for various projects in the jurisdiction of Canacona Municipality such as upcoming new Modernized Fish market under GSUDA and New Public Toilet under PWD/ Sulabh has been organized on Friday. The meeting was attended and chaired by Chairperson Ramakant Naik…
Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: A two and a half metre long Python got entangled to a Net set-up at a wooden fencing to protect the Paddy fields from animal attacks in Agonda. It was around 9.00 in the morning that the farmer Savio Fernandes on a trip to oversee his Paddy Fields noticed something almost as head of a animal is struggling to free itself from a Net he has spread across the wooden fencing to avoid certain animals from entering the Paddy Fields. Certain Wildlife is often attracted to specific crops particularly Rice Cultivation at its ripening stage. On closer…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, a renowned institution known for its commitment to innovation has signed an MoU with Goa University (GU) to lead academic and research partnership in areas of mutual interest in the form of collaborative research projects and publications, joint workshops, seminars and conferences. This MoU will also allow students of Goa University and its Colleges to pursue their PhD programmes and project work at BITS Pilani. It will also support exchange of academic and scholarly information between the faculty and students of both the institutions of higher learning. As part of…
The border area of VP Khola and Barcem-Quedem Village Panchayat. Residents say they are forced to relaunch their agitation of 2017, which led to stoppage of Fish Meal Plant. Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Amidst growing dissent over deforestatiuon, hill-cutting and concretising lands, villagers of Khola, Agonda and Barcem-Quedem marched in unison at Paryemoll to oppose construction of a Fishmeal factory. Quepem MLA Altone D’Costa, besides Sarpanch of Khola Krishna Velip, Dy. Sarpanch Pandhari Prabhudessai, and other panch members, besides an ex-sarpanch and ex-panch members of Barcem-Quedem and prominent members.along with hundreds of residents marched in line shouting slogans ‘Amkam Naka amkam…