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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Two days before the 10-day Goa Legislative Assembly session begins in Goa, there is a buzz of 10-Congress MLAs switching sides and joining the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. This may happen as early as Sunday or before the presidential polls. In the 40-member Assembly, BJP has 20 MLAs, while there are 11 MLAs of the Congress, two each of AAP and MGP, and five independent MLAs. According to sources, the disgruntled Congress MLAs are in touch with the BJP leadership. “They are ready to join. But the leadership has decided not to hurry but induct them as…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: House owners rescued two trapped women from a room due to the landslide on Saturday at Taki. The rains have caused havoc in the state. Flood-like conditions and landslides have prevailed in many places causing great inconvenience to the residents. On Saturday, a landslide behind Mahesh Manjrekar’s house at Taki happened. A major portion of the hill slides down at the rear side of the house and the rocks, and mud entered his house. The house owner has about four rented rooms in the house, where tenants live, but three of the four tenants had gone to…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: The rain fury in South Goa has been such that even there was no place to cremate or take the the dead body. The road from Gudi Paroda to Karali from Margao to Quepem has been completely submerged, disrupting public life in Paroda. As the roads in Paroda were flooded, Gajanan Padiyar’s dead body could not be taken to Margao for cremation. The dead body was brought to Karali from Paroda in a special boat under the guidance of Damodar Jambavalikar, the Fire station in charge of Curchorem Fire and was later cremated at Margao Cemetery. The…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice M.S Sonak and Justice R.N. Laddha will on Monday July 11th pronounce the judgment on the petition filed by Adv. Aires Rodrigues challenging the appointment of Kabir Makhija and Kishore Sastry as nominated Councilors at the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP). Adv. Aires Rodrigues in his petition has submitted that the appointment of Kabir Makhija and Kishore Sastry as nominated Councillors was in total breach and violation of law as they did not possess the required Special knowledge and experience in Municipal Administration.…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Underground Cabling in four constituency of Ponda Taluka will be taken up at a cost of Rs 160 crore with Rs 40 crore being spent in each constituency at Ponda, Marcaim, Priol and Shiroda, said Power Minister Sudin Dhavlikar. Power Minister said the main target is to generate revenue of Rs 600 crore to undertake development work in the power sector including undeground cabling. The today foundation stone for underground cabling at Ponda commenced at hands of Power Minister Sudin Dhavlikar. from Booadbag Talule in Marcaim constituency at a cost of around Rs 13 crore wherein work…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Govt distributed a relief fund of Rs 70 lakhs to last year’s (23 July) flood victims in Ponda Taluka. As per information by Ponda Disaster Team officials there were 471 cases reported wherein people were affected due to flooding of Khandepar and Ganjem rivers flowing from Ponda Taluka and most of the affected people were at Usgao- Ganjem, Khandepar and Priol. Among these 21 houses were fully damaged with most of them at Usgao –Ganjem and six at Khandepar and Priol. The officials said the PWD Official team and Talathis of Local Panchayat had made the valuation…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Miraculous escape of a woman from getting grievously injured after a portion of the ceiling of an old dilapidated building from Vasco fell down on a footpath. A woman who had come to market just escaped from getting injured as a portion of the old building’s ceiling fell down a few seconds after she cross the path. The panicked woman was furious and questioned the lackadaisical functioning of the Mormugao municipality for not demolishing the dilapidated structures which may lead to the injury or death of a person crossing this path. Later, Anand, a representative of n…