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Goemkarponn desk PONDA & SANKHALI: It is a personal win for Goa CM Dr Pramod Sawant who’s panel not only won 11-1 in the Sankhali municipal polls but also his bete noire Dharmesh Saglani lost his seat. Only a year ago Saglani had come to defeating CM Sawant and had lost by 666 votes in Aasembly polls. The Opposition had charged CM had won on “forceful” ballot votes. However, a year later Sawant has cleared the air as in a clear mandate to BJP, the saffron party-backed candidates swept the Sankhali and Ponda municipal council with the complete majority. Chief Minister…

Goemkarponn desk Mapusa: Anjuna Police today, under the supervision of SDPO Mapusa Jivba Dalvi, raided Shiva Valley Restaurant (Shack)Anjuna Beach, Near Flea Market, St. Michael Vaddo, Anjuna, Goa 403509 today. Accordingly, a search warrant was obtained, formed a team comprising a Scientific Assistant, Dog Squad and staff of Anjuna Police Station and the premises was raided today at 5:00 pm. During the raid, many incriminating material was seized for forensic examination. The team was headed by Jivba Dalvi SDPO Mapusa, Scientific Assistant Kulbhushan Gupta, Prashal Dessai PI Anjuna PSI Sahil Warang and staff of Anjuna Police Station. Further investigation is…

Goenkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) today declared the HSSC 2023 results with a pass percentage of 95.46%. As per information from the board, 9,377 appeared for the examination, of which 18 497 passed the information. The Board Chairman Bhagirath Shetye said that the passing percentage of boys is 95.03% and girls are 95.88 per cent. Commerce saw a pass percentage of 96.5%, science saw 96.1%, and arts saw a pass percentage of 95.1% at the Class XII exams of the Goa Board. Most students, i.e. 10,291, scored between 60%-80% on the Goa…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The COVID-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday. It is “with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency”, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, estimating that the pandemic had killed “at least 20 million” people — nearly three times the under seven million deaths officially recorded The move came after the WHO’s independent emergency committee on the COVID-19 crisis agreed during its 15th meeting on Thursday that the crisis…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA:After dilly-dallying for some days, Forest department finally registered a case against a controversial God man, for illegall tree felling at Vape-Sadolxem in Poinguinim village in Canacona. According to Canacona RFO Anand Mestri, Swami alias Raaj Shashibhushan Pandey is booked for illegally cutting around 30 trees to construct an illegal road and an illegal Structure at Vape hillock at Sadolxem of Poingunim village in Canacona taluka. It is learnt that forest department after investigation will impose a fine on the illegal tree- felling on the Swami, who is reported allegedly engaged in hill-cutting and went on to construct…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: GMR Goa International Airport Limited (GGIAL), a subsidiary of GMR Airports Infrastructure Limited (GIL), has announced that Manohar International Airport has handled one million happy passengers in just 116 days since its opening. This overwhelming response from passengers positioned Manohar International Airport amongst the top 20 airports in India as per March’23 domestic traffic data. Equipped to handle even the wide body Code D & E aircrafts, Manohar International Airport is currently catering to Code C Aircrafts used by the domestic carriers. Manohar International Airport has expanded its reach by connecting 25 destinations in India, with three…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: Ponda Police booked four Bandora locals for assaulting Khandepar Youth. According to Ponda PI the incident took place on 3 May. The Complainant Bhomi Varak s/o Bapu Varak, ag 32 yrs, r-o H No. 543/1 Keriyan, Khandepar filed complaint. Accused booked for offence are 1. Viraj Naik, 2. Prathmesh Ramnathkar, 3. Ajay Naik, 4.Bhushan Bandodkar all r/o Bandora Ponda Goa. The accused On 03/05/2023 at 19.30 hrs at Ramanathi the above noted accused person with their common intention damage Splendor M/cycle bearing reg. No. GA 05 H 6045 of the complainant, abused and further assaulted with iron…