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Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Residents of Vasco are worried over the tap water contamination of a restaurant from Vasco. The restaurant owner has been ordered to make alternate water arrangements in his restaurant by the Urban Health Centre Vasco. There is a likely disaster regarding the health of the citizens in the making in Vasco town. As per the available information, a letter addressed to the Chief Officer by the health officer of Urban Health Centre Vasco dated July 18, a restaurant from Vasco near F.L.Gomes road, has come under the scanner of the Health services department. As per the letter,…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai allege a mega scam in the Goa Broadband Network, an ambitious project of the Goa government. Sardesai said, “This is a mega scam. I am sure the Minister knows this scam in and out.” Substantiating his claim, Sardesai said the GBBN contract with United Telecom Ltd expired in July 2019 and for 10 years, the quality of the internet provided by M/s UTS through their network was unreliable. “Before the expiry, the government should have been looking for a new vendor. Instead, in 2019, the contract was extended by one year,” he said.…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Ulhas Thanekar was elected as President of the Mormugao Port & Workers’ Union. The post of the President of the MPRW union was vacant for the last 14 months. In the executive meeting, which was held on 14/07/2022, Ulhas Thanekar was elected as President of Mormugao Port & Railway Workers’ Union (MPRW) in the presence of P.M. Mohammed Haneef, President, All India Port & Dock Workers’ Federation. The post was vacant for 14 months, consequent to the sad demise of Late Com. Leonardo Rodrigues. Since the port is facing challenges of being privatized and other major issues,…

Goemkarponn desk MORMUGAO: A minor girl was found hanging on a tree with the dupatta on a new road behind the Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) administrative building on Wednesday afternoon. In yet another shocking incident which surfaced on Wednesday, a minor girl(13) who was a school student reportedly took a drastic step of committing suicide by hanging from a tree in Sada on Wednesday. As per the information available from the Police sources, the minor girl was studying in a school at Headland Sada. Mormugao police have identified the identity of a deceased minor girl. Sources further added that the…

AERIAL VIEW What is shocking is the new extra energetic Town and Country Planning Minister Vishwajit Rane crossed all his limits and put all his strength into exposing Opposition leader Michael Lobo’s illegalities in the Outline Development Plans and his businesses. All that is fine; illegalities by anyone, if any, cannot be tolerated. But Vishwajit went an extra mile to see that he shut down Lobo’s restaurant Pisco by the beach in Anjuna on some flimsy grounds. He used entire FDA machinery to get the restaurant shut, only to get a stick from High Court. He went on to say…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral stated that the Centre had, in principle, agreed to three major issues the removal of port limits and structures and notification based on the 1:4000 scale. He also assured the House that the Sand Dunes would be re-surveyed in the coastal areas. The question of san dunes was raised by Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai, who said that all sand dunes had been shown only in South Goa and nothing in North. He said that the traditional fisherman is in a fix. Neither they can do fishing nor they can do shack business.…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Minister for Social Welfare Subhash Phaldesai has warned the NGOs who he claimed are instigating people to oppose the IIT Goa project. Speaking to reporters, Phaldesai said that the NGOs are instigating the people to protest. “IIT is a good project which will bring development in the constituency. Locals of Sanguem do not oppose the project. It is the NGOs who come from the oyutside that oppose it. We will not tolerate such provocation, and if need be, thousands of people will converge in support of IIT,” he said. A group of farmers, largely comprised of women,…