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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Following demands for scrapping of TCP amendments, the Town and Country Planning Minister Vishwajit Rane said that the Golf Course and Film City plans already existed in Regional Plan 2021. Rane, taking to social media, also took a dig at the people opposing amendments saying the people had also opposed five-star hotels in Goa years ago, but today they have become the backbone of Goa. “While deciding which activities would be permitted, we took great care to ensure that these activities would not densify the areas and place an additional burden on the State’s infrastructure. We have…

Goemkarponn desk MORMUGAO: A Unit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Mumbai this morning raided the residence of member of the Popular Front of India at Sada in Mormugao. As per information, the raid began at 3.10 am with 20 NIA officers. No arrests had been made, but some material was seized during the raid. A total of 106 PFI leaders have been arrested so far from 11 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country. The maximum number of arrests were made in Kerala (22), followed by…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – The villagers of Khotigao have demanded that the government declare the heritage ‘Kosambakadem’, Boskai (Meeting -Seats), a traditional Meeting-Point of the villagers at Baddem, a Protected Site of the State. The Meeting-Seats set (locally called ‘Boskai’) is located at Kosambakadem (near Kosamba Tree) amidst the thick forests at Baddem in Khotigao village has natural stone-curved Chairs and Benches, and locals occasionally or whenever the need arises, meet at the venue to discuss the good or bad that comes or befalls on the villagers. Devidas Gaonkar, an environmentalist, tribal and social activist, writer and poet, was recently…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Social activist Adv Aires Rodrigues has claimed that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and MLA Babush Monserrate have taken the people of Ribandar for a ride by falsely promising us that at the Old Ribandar Hospital, a 30 bedded facility with a 24×7 Casualty cum Trauma unit equipped with all the required facilities would be set up and expanded in stages to be a fully-fledged Hospital. He said that the Old Ribandar Hospital premises have been given away to a Tamil Nadu-based company to set up Siddha Clinical Research Unit under the Ayush Ministry. “Our Old Ribandar Hospital…

Goemkarponn desk DABOLIM: Arriving late evening from their much-talked-about Delhi trip, the two turncoat MLAs Sankalp Amonkar and Kedar Naik said their entry into BJP was purely for development and expressed confidence they would add value to the party. Mormugao MLA, speaking to reporters, said that the Delhi visit was only for introduction and induction. “There was no demand or discussion on anything apart from this. We went to Delhi on Sunday and met National Party president J P Naddaji and Home Minister Amit Shahji along with our CM Dr Pramod Sawant, Goa BJP President Sadanand Tanavade, and MP Vinay…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Amey Anil Chodanker, a native of Vasco and presently employed as a Creative Director of Dentetsu Creativities, a Japan-based advertising agency, has ranked No.1 Creative Director of the year with the prestigious Titanium Lion by CannesLions International Festival of Creativity 2022 held at France. Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, has been championing Creativity excellence since 1954, intending to provide a global destination and definitive benchmark for creativity that drives progress. His company was also awarded Global Advertising Agency of the year with 12 other awards in different sections of the advertising industry. In this Festival,…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: A day after the accused was nabbed at the Nepal border, several victims of the conman Ahmed Noor gathered at Vasco on Thursday morning demanding justice and strict action. The Economic Offences Cell (EOC) has arrested Vasco conman, Noor Ahmed, from the Nepal border for allegedly cheating at least 250 persons under the garb of a real estate Ponzi scheme. The victims, while thanking the Goa Forward Party and the police for having nabbed the accused, demanded that the culprit be given the most stringent punishment so that it sets an example and no one ever dares…