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Goemkapronn desk PANAJI: Goa’s tourism calendar will have events like the endurance race Ironman 70.3, eco-music festival and Sunburn concert during the current year as the state government seeks to attract a large number of travellers and revive a key revenue-generating sector which has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte on Wednesday told reporters that the Goa Tourism Board has granted in-principle approval for various events of international standards that would be held in the coastal state during the year. The board, at a meeting here, gave approval for hosting the popular Sunburn music festival in…

Dhiraj Harmalkar/ Goemkarponn MORMUGAO: Mormugao youths take up the Herculean task of Cleaning the Mormugao taluka by conducting cleanliness drives in several places. Xencor Polgi, an anti-coal activist, has spearheaded this young talented force to enforce this green initiative in the Mormugao. Goans across Goa know a green warrior standing in Akimbo pose and giving his commentary on several issues from Goa. This anti-coal activist has not only restricted his greener vision to the videos but has decided to go one step ahead and undertake cleanliness drives across the Mormugao taluka with the support of the local youths. When contacted,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari’s dreams of a signature bridge with watch towers across Zuari will have to wait for some more years as the State has decided to keep the watch tower project on hold for now. PWD Minister Nilesh Cabral said that the Watch Tower work will be kept on hold for now. “The work of the two proposed towers (observatory and viewing galleries) atop the new bridge is not part of the original scope of the contract and will be considered later,” he said. Cabral added, “the construction cost…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: PWD Minister Shri Nilesh Cabral launched the Jetpatcher machine on Wednesday, which will help fix the potholes in the State at Taleigao. Speaking on occasion, Cabral said that this machine is used not only in India but across the globe in various forms to fill the potholes. “Every year, we face the problems of potholes during monsoons. The reason behind the causes of potholes is mainly due to digging of the roads by the agencies/PWD dept to carry out the work of laying cables, water connection, sewage connection etc.,” he said. Taking all this into account, the…

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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: When Maharashtra political drama was at its boiling point with the top leaders busy counting the number of MLAs they had, a 30-year-old woman, Sonia Doohan — a politician from Haryana — was trying to repeat her 2019-like “rescue” operation, where she had managed to flee with four NCP MLAs from Gurgaon. At that time, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis was trying to form a government with NCP’s Ajit Pawar, after Assembly poll results were divided. This time, however, things went haywire. Doohan, national president of the NCP students’ wing, had gone to Goa and checked into Hotel Taj…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa dismissed the petition for delaying the panchayat elections for the OBC reservation stating the authorities had enough time to compile with the SC-mandated triple test. The Division Bench of Justice R.N. Laddha and Justice Mahesh S Sonak said that the Petitioners, as well as the OBC Commission, nowhere assert that the triple test formulated by the Constitution Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court was complied as of 1st July 2022 when the impugned Notification was issued by the SEC. “Their case is that the Panchayat election may be postponed so…