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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa’s state-appointed lifesaving and rescue organization, Drishti, has had a busy year in 2022, with the lifesaving force conducting 218 rescues through 223 separate incidents from the months of Jan to Jun of 2022. A total of 223 incidents took place in the last six months, which included water-based rescues, first aid and medical emergencies. Several of these were double and triple rescues. A total of 218 individuals were rescued during the incidents, while 04 individuals succumbed to the waters. The month of May witnessed the highest rescues where 63 rescues were reported in the month, followed…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Children and the young generation should be encouraged to plant more tree saplings. Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar, along with the Mormugao Municipal councillors, planted plant saplings along with the school students of St. Joseph Primary school Baina. On Wednesday, St Joseph Primary school conducted a plant sapling drive at the School premises in Baina. Several primary school students, along with the Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar, Councillor Shami Salkar, Deepak Naik, and Girish Borkar, planted saplings in the school. Later, Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar said that it is important to encourage young generations and school children to plant…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – A mini Landslide on NH-66, flooding of streets and an uprooted tree fall blocking an internal road marred the third day of heavy rains even as the seasonal total has crossed 1350mm and water bodies continue to rise in Canacona. Approximately 6 inches of rain was already recorded on Tuesday, even as rains continued to pound with most rivers running up to the brinks in Canacona taluka. The water storage in 35.18 RL Chapoli dam has considerably increased at Rain 143.40 mm total rainfall of 1332.30 mm on midnight of Tuesday. Water logging on many of…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – An early morning fishing trip in the serene waters of the Arabian sea suddenly turned life-threatening as their fishing as strong winds and rough seas got their fishing boat stranded in the rocks off the Palolem coast. However, two of the Drishti Life Saving Force lifeguards, braving the rough seas and threatening winds, used jet-ski scooters, helped pull off the fishing boat almost stranded into the rocks off the rocky coast on Ourem-side off Palolem Coast, and brought all the five fishermen onto the shore. According to sources, as per their traditional practice, in a motorboat,…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: Gudi-Paroda road was submerged under the water after the water level in the Kushavati river started rising on Tuesday morning around 11 am. The Traffic from Quepem to Margao was diverted via another route. When contacted the locals, they said during high tide in the Kushawati river water level is elevated, and it is due to 48 hours of continuous rain. This has also flooded some parts of Paroda village near the Parvat bus stop and also at the bridge that links Avedem-Cotombi to the Margao-Quepem road. An area of Paroda from the bridge to the Parvat…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – GPCC General Secretary Janardhan Bhandari flagged off the Bad Land Challenge of Off-Road competition (adventure sport) at Shristhal, Canacona, on Tuesday. Stating promoting sports in any form, the versatile leader of Canacona, Janardhan Bhandari, said adventurous sports will also contribute to the overall development of Canacona. Bhandari, keeping himself true to his mission, flagged off BAD Land Challenge of Off-roading (an adventurous sport) along with Ramu Naik (Ex-Sarpanch-Shristhal), Somdatta Deshmukh-Owner of the Land where the competition was held & with other dignitaries at Shristhal, Canacona. Janardhan Bhandari asserted to promote such adventurous sports regularly to bring…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The project for four-laning of Goa/Karnataka border to Kundapur section of NH-17 in Karnataka is near completion. In a series of tweets, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has informed that presently about 173 km (92.42 per cent of the total work is completed) and while traffic is open on the project, the remaining work will be completed by December 2022. The minister said the government under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is actively working towards building world-class infrastructure across the country, and leading New India towards an era of ‘prosperity through…