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Goemkarponn desk UGUEM:After a senior teacher refused to join duty in the remote village of Uguem in South Goa, Premanand Rekdo, a D.Ed (Diploma in Education) qualified youngster and ex-student has taken the onus of teaching in government schools students pro bono. With Rekdo teaching in the unattended and ignored government school for four days now, local villagers have hailed this good samaritan and his story has gone viral in Goa. The Education Department on Thursday ordered an inquiry about the teacher, who disobeyed the order to take charge of this primary school. Primary Government School in Valkini-Uguem, having Class…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Congress MLA Adv Carlos Ferreira is of the clear opinion that with the Opposition lacking majority, it is impossible to bring a POGO bill to the House. Ferreira also said that the Congress party believes in people’s aspirations and hence feels there is a need to work out some mechanism. “Opposition can’t bring a bill, we can only move a private members bill, but you know it will never get passed because there is no majority. So you can’t fool people by just trying to bring a bill which will get knocked off,” the MLA said. Referring…

Goemkarponn desk HYDERABAD: Hyderabad JMFC Court has granted 14 days of judicial custody to Hill Top Goa owner for his involvement in one of the NDPS cases. John Steven D’Souza is the owner of the Hill Top restaurant at Anjuna, next to the Sunburn Goa venue. The Hyderabad cops led by Sreedhar Reddy – Police Inspector (Detection), Osmania University Police Station, Hyderabad City, Telangana State, arrested two persons, John Stephen D’Souza aka Steve, involved and named in CR No 374/2022 u/s 8C, 22(C) and section 27 of the NDPS Act. The Hyderabad cops have been searching for the accused for…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Day after re-joining the BJP and the ruling government, BJP MLA Michael Lobo requested Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to bring down the beach shack fees and other related fees to provide solace to the shack operators. Lobo, an MLA from the coastal belt of North Goa, along with members of the shack association, met Chief Minister and acquainted him with the increased fees, which according to them, is not affordable as there is no clarity of foreign tourists visiting Goa. “We met Chief Minister Pramod Sawant as the tourism season will start. It is a very good…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Ganesh Chaturthi was celebrated earlier this month with pomp and gaiety after two long years of the COVID19 pandemic. In every home, Bappa came and was given a warm send-off by immersion on one and half days, five days, seven days and nine days. However, soon after the immersion, several Ganesh idols washed ashore or were left undissolved in rivers, creeks, mostly made up of Plaster of Paris (PoP) Now, the Chicalim panch member Neelam Naik has taken a unique responsibility to immerse about 50 undissolved idols of Lord Ganesh into the Arabian Sea from a creek…

Goemkarponn desk MAYEM: Urging farmers to cultivate their lands, Water Resources Department Minister, Subhash Shirodkar said that keeping agricultural land fallow is a crime. Subash Shirodkar assured to undertake the work of various projects worth 5 to 10 crores in the next two years in the Mayem Constituency. He said WRD is very closely associated with the agriculture sector and assured all required assistance to farmers, including modern machinery, to revive agriculture in the State. He was speaking at an interactive session with Sarpanchas and Panch members of seven Panchayats of the Mayem Constituency. Urging people to cultivate their fields…