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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral said that the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) 2019 will be ready by next year. “Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) 2019 will be ready by next year. It will not experience an unanticipated delay like the previous plan did,” said Cabral. He further said that in the minutes of its meetings, the NCZMA has noted a few things and they have not received any explicit instructions from it specifying that we cannot approve new structures until CMZP 2019 is prepared. “Until the new plan is ready, clearances will be given in accordance with…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Canacona police have arrested two persons including a native from Himachal Pradesh in possession with Narcotic substance worth Rs.7,90,000/- at Agonda on Thursday afternoon. According to Canacona PI Chandrakant Gawas, a NDPS raid was conducted between 12.40 hrs to 15.00 hrs on Thursday and two persons were caught red handed near Saleri Bridge in Agonda in possession with Narcotics Substance. The narcotics substance suspected to be Charas is weighed at 790 grams and have a market value of rupees 7,90,000/-, informed Gawas. Canacona police provided the names of the duo caught in the raid are Shivkumar Raju…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Inaugurating the first of its kind Public Awareness program on ‘Fortified Rice’ organized by Civil Supplies and Consumers Affairs, in Canacona, Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar asked the people not to fall prey of believe to the Opposition led false Propaganda as PDS supplied ‘Plastic Rice’. Speaking after inaugurating the awareness camp by the Canacona Taluka office of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (CSCA), Canacona MLA and GLA Speaker Ramesh Tavadkar categorically appealed to all present not to fall prey to this propaganda started by the opposition. Speaking further Tawadkar appealed saying, ‘This rice is nutritious and people should…

Goemkapronn desk PANAJI: Social Activist Kashinath Shetye has said that the State government or the Goa State Coastal Management Authority (GCZMA) cannot grant in-principle NOC to off-shore casinos as the matter is sub-judice. Reacting to report filed by Goemkarponn on November 2, 2023, Kashinath Shetye said that he has won the case in the National Green Tribunal (NGT). In May, the GCZMA issued an in-principle no objection (NOC) allowing the offshore casino vessels to stay in River Mandovi, with the condition that the operators of the vessels provide the environmental impact assessment (EIA) study in order to receive a final…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Aam Aadmi Party leader in Goa has alleged that officials posted at the check post of Goa border take bribes from Rs 20 to Rs 2,000 from interstate goods transport vehicles to enter in the state. On Tuesday night, AAP Goa unit President Amit Palyekar exposed the bribes allegedly taken by the officers at Pollem check post on Goa- Karnataka border by becoming a truck cleaner. “I went to Karwar in Karnataka and there I took a lift from the truck driver to come back to Goa border pretending to be a cleaner. That time I saw…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Alleging that corruption has taken place in the 37th National Games hosted by Goa, the Congress has demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge. Goa Pradesh Congress Committee’s General Secretary Viriato Fernandes on Thursday addressed a press conference and slammed the BJP government for looting taxpayers’ money on the pretext of conducting national games. “Substandard work has been done wherever the games are taking place. The temporary overlays erected at many places are not safe due to substandard work. I demand a safety audit and repairs/corrections to avoid unfortunate incidents,” Fernandes said. He said that all the…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Wimmer Sanjana Prabhugaonkar bagged her third medal of the 37th National Games, clinching the silver medal in the 100m backstroke while Janiva Fernandes won a bronze medal in Wushu to take Goa’s medals tally to 34. Prabhugaonkar, who had won the 200m freestyle silver and 200m backstroke bronze, went neck and neck against eventual gold medallist Palak Joshi of Maharashtra for major part ot the race before finishing the race with a time of 1:05.73s to bag the silver medal. Joshi set a time of 1:05.29s to win her second gold of the Games while Karnataka’s Ridhima…