AERIAL VIEW The month of Shravan is considered holy as a majority of Hindu families are vegetarian during the festive month up to the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. That is one of the reasons why the supporters seem to be less behind the candidates canvassing in almost all 186 village panchayats, which go to polls on August 10. Contesting candidates and their supporters have to a large extent, resorted to foul practices to get voters to cast their votes in their favour during the panchayat elections. While there is not much distribution of cash during panchayat elections, there is a free…
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Goemkrponn desk PONDA Henceforth there will be no Airport road in Ponda. It will be Shri Aurobindo Road. PMC changes the Market approach road (popular among the public as Airport road) to Aurbindo Road. PONDA: Ponda Municipal Council, in its meeting today, decided to change the name of the approach road to market with Shri Aurobindo road. The general public unknowingly had named the approach road as an airport road for many years, and it was popular among the common public as an Airport road due to difficulty in pronunciation or other reasons. PMC, in its special meeting, passed a…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa University is playing with the career and future of students. Despite the final year examination, the results of about 10,000 students, including graduate and post-graduate students, have not been declared by Goa University. In this regard, NSUI State President Naushad Chowdhari has filed a complaint against Goa University, which failed to declare the results of UG and PG students. On Thursday, NSUI met the Governor and submitted the complaint. Naushad has also requested the governor to take action against Goa University in this matter. This is happening, again and again, every semester, and the university is…
Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Against the backdrop of rising fatal accidents in Goa due to consumption of Alcohol, Ponda traffic Police began a special drive against drunken driving. Ponda Traffic PI Krishna Sinhari said We have started the special awareness drive from August 2 and booked 20 drunken driving cases while a total of 80 cases booked from January to July this year. He urged people to safe driving and not to violate traffic rules. He urged to avoid drunk driving and also wear a helmet and other necessary gadget during driving. He said a person goes out of sense during…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Forests Minister Vishwajit Rane said that his department has chalked out various plans for the upgradation of Wildlife Sanctuaries. Rane had an interaction with Vinay Luthra (Retd. IFS/PCCF Karnataka) in the presence of Rajiv Kumar Gupta & Santosh Kumar. “We chalked out various plans for up-gradation of Wildlife Sanctuaries, focusing on enhancing and creating a robust ecosystem,” he added. Rane had earlier said that he aims to boost eco-tourism in the state through the forest department, create camping sites and generate employment for the youth through various portfolios, not only in Sattari but in different parts of…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Forward President Vijai Sardesai has written to the Chief Secretary over Bandharas constructed by the Karnataka government to divert water in Mhadei Basin “I have written to the Chief Secretary over Bandharas constructed by Karnataka government to divert water in Mhadei Basin. The State government should immediately investigate this and bring this to the notice of the Tribunal and Supreme Court: said Sardesai. He further said that Environmentalist Rajendra Kerkar had reported yesterday that the Karnataka Government had initiated the construction of Bandaras on the Mhadei river with the intention of diverting the water outside the…
Goemkarponn desk VASCO: On 1st August, Base Support Facility (Goa), an aviation maintenance unit of INS Hansa, completed 25 Years of service to the nation. According to a Naval press release, Since 1st Aug 1997, the unit has undertaken the arduous task of providing maintenance support to Russian Origin aircraft at Goa Naval Area viz., Ilyushin (IL 38), Kamov 25 and Kamov 28. “The last 25 years have witnessed transformative inductions and upgrades about Russian Aircraft. Today, BSF (Goa) provides unbridled technical support to Kamov 31 (AEW Helicopters), upgraded IL 38SD (Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft) and MIG 29K/ KUB…