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Goemkarponn desk MOPA: Thomas Cook (India) Limited, India’s leading omnichannel travel services company, inaugurated new Forex outlets at the new Manohar International Airport – at Mopa, Goa. The Company has won a 5-year contract for setting up and operating 4 foreign exchange counters at the new Goa Airport. This expands Thomas Cook India’s forex network/consumer access in Goa to 6 outlets: 2 branches and 4 airport outlets. In addition, the Company operates 25 airport counters across India, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. In an initiative to ensure safe, seamless and convenient merchant payments, Thomas Cook’s Goa airport counters will empower foreign…

Goemkarponn desk BENAULIM: Former Benaulim MLA Churchill Alemao today said that he is not sure whether he will join the BJP in future or not. “I have supported CM Pramod Sawant as he is a common man and such people should run the state government in Goa. I don’t know whether I will join BJP or not in the future. I have not decided anything,” said Alemao. Alemao stated that he has no interest in contesting the election but believes that the BJP will win both seats as they deserve it and will stay in power for the next 15…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The launch of the District Panchayat Development Plan will enable stakeholders to make proper development of their respective constituencies, stated Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant, speaking after launching District Panchayat Development Plan( DPDP) at a function organized by North Goa Zilla Panchayat held in the city today. The Chief Minister further urged the stakeholders of Zilla Panchayat to walk the extra mile to tackle and manage various issues plaguing one’s village like garbage, environment water, sewerage etc. The Government will provide all sorts of cooperation apart from financial assistance. The central Government under the Atmanirbhar mission has…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Angered by inactiveness and inactions to take corrective measures on the treacherous, accident -prone and bad roads in the Canacona section, residents locked up PWD officers in Canacona on Wednesday. The office/cabin of finding no presence of any officer in the PWD (Highways) Asstt.Engr cabin, the activists took the anger on Assistant Engineer PWD (Roads) and locked him for over two hours in his cabin. ‘Fatal accidents and bad conditions of Roads are taken very lightly by these officers, and does nothing to take corrective measures, informed Janardhan Bhandari. Congress leader Bhandari and Goa Forward Party Environmental…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today announced that National games will be held in October and will be inaugurated by the hands of PM Narendra Modi tentatively between the 23rd to 25th of October. Chief Minister Sawant, Sports Minister Govind Gaude, and IOA President PT Usha met at the CM’s official residence to discuss the national games. “National games to be held in the month of October; it will be inaugurated by the hands of PM Narendra Modi tentatively between 23rd to 25th October. Infrastructure is ready to host the national games in Goa,” said CM Sawant. He…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: A 28 year is nabbed from his native State of Orissa, where he fled after committing theft of cash and a Laptop from a hotel in Canacona. According to Canacona police, one Shubham Natak, 28 years, committed theft of an HP laptop and cash of Rs.210936/- from Hotel Ark Comfort, Canacona and fled away with the booty. He was tracked in Orissa and where a special team from Canacona police arrested him and brought him to the Canacona police station on Tuesday. Canacona Police under Canacona PI Chandrakant Gawas is investigating the case further, while the accused…

Goemkarponn desk SANKHALI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared a 12-member panel for the Sankhali municipal elections, including two unopposed candidates. The candidates are Yeshwant Shrikant Madkar (ward-1), Nikita Namdev Naik (ward-2), Siddhi Sandesh Porob (Ward-3), Rashmi Dilip Desai (ward-4), Ward 5 – Unopposed, Vinanti Vinayak Parsekar (Ward-6), Brahmanand Raghunath Desai (ward 7), Riyas Hamid Khan – Unopposed (ward 8), Anand Babani Kanekar (ward Ward-9), Dayanand Pundalik Boryekar (ward 10), Deepa Nilesh Jalmi (ward 11), Anjana Arjun Kamat (ward 12). Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and BJP State President Sadanand Shet Tanavade were present for the announcement of the panels.