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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today informed that the entire project of the Zuari Bridge will be completed by March 2025. CM Sawant was speaking on the occasion of the lifting of the last segment of one side of the four-lane Zuari Bridge. “Entire project of Zuari Bridge will be completed by March 2025. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will be called for the inaugural,” said CM Sawant. He further said that the 545-crore Cable Stay Bridge is the 2nd longest cable bridge in India and will be open to the public by December 2022. “Once four-lane of the…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Medical College & Hospital (GMC) has achieved yet another milestone of being permitted by NMC and granting two DM seats in Endocrinology, which is available only in a few medical colleges in India. “It is to inform that the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) reviewed the Assessor’s Report dated 12.05.2022 regarding faculty, their experience, publication and other teaching facilities, including infrastructure available at Goa Medical College, Goa under Goa University in the State of Goa for starting of course DM (Endocrinology) for the academic year 2022-23,” the order states. The Commission has also decided to…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Stating that condition of the Baina fish market is worse, the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation’s (GSIDC) vice chairperson Deepak Naik said that the Corporation intends to renovate the Fish market. He made this statement after he conducted a joint inspection of the dilapidated fish market at Baina along with Mormugao Municipal council chairperson Leo Rodrigue. Naik said that the fish vendors have explained their tremendous hardships while operating from the market. “I have requested the MMC Chairperson to bring the municipal engineers for an inspection. The market condition is bad; the roof sheets are blown over,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With an aim to make Goa the first stroke intervention-friendly state, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said that a specialized stroke centre with a dedicated Neurosciences cath lab will be built at the Super Specialty Block to cater to all types of stroke cases. “A specialized stroke centre with a dedicated Neurosciences cath lab will be built at the Super Specialty Block to cater to all types of stroke cases,” said Rane. He further said that Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC) has started initiating Neuro-interventions in the last two months. “These include digital subtraction angiograms of the brain…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Even as the controversy rages over Goan, non-Goan issues in Goa, Minister for Agriculture Ravi Naik has kicked up a storm with a controversial statement that Malayalees contributed to the education sector after Goa Liberation from Portuguese rule. “Like Maharashtra, Karnataka contribution the Malayalees teachers were in Goa for teaching students,” Naik said. He further said that despite people of various religions and cultures, India’s uniqueness is united and diverse. Naik urged the citizens to preserve this great cultural heritage. “We should celebrate the festivals of each other, forgetting race and religion,” Naik said. He said to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today handed over appointments to 12 beneficiaries on compassionate grounds as special cases. “The state government has been processing such cases through a routine process on a first-come, first basis, and accordingly, the appointments were handed. Now joint secretary informed that 499 such cases are pending,” said CM Sawant. He further informed that if the case was accidental, the process of handing over appointments to beneficiaries took almost 5-6 years. “When the incident of 3 lineman getting electrocuted happened, we wanted to give the appointments within 3 months, but it was not possible…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today filed a petition before the Goa State Information Commission (GSIC) challenging the order passed yesterday by the Secretary of Goa Legislature Secretariat Namrata Ulman, who is also the designated First Appellate Authority under the Right to Information Act (RTI), rejecting his appeal against the order of the Public Information Officer (PIO) at the Legislature Secretariat Mohan Gaonkar declining to furnish the information sought by him. Pointing out that Namrata Ulman’s order was illegal, perverse, bad and contrary to law, Adv Rodrigues, in his petition, has stated that the RTI Act was intended…