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Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – The treacherous one-way diversion on NH-66 road is further turned into a death kneel to motorists with large potholes at the foot of Karmalghat at Barcem in Quepem taluka. The presence of large potholes at the beginning of the newly constructed Culvert bridge at Barcem to the traffic proceeding to Canacona is not only threatening safe driving but also hinders and risks motorists proceeding towards Margao, turning the entire highway stretch dangerously prone to accidents. It may be recalled that PWD has recently completed the construction of a Culvert bridge across an existing one(a Portuguese-era narrow…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu common man, was brutally murdered in his tailoring shop by two radical Jihadis in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The two Jihadis not only recorded themselves committing the dastardly act but also gave an open threat, laughing while they did it, to the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nupur Sharma. Similarly, Umesh Kolhe, a pharmacy owner, was killed by radical jihadis in Maharashtra’s Amaravati. “These are not ordinary incidents but an assault on civil society, the constitution, and democracy,” said Hindu Raksha Maha Aghadi, strongly condemning these killings. Such inhuman Jihadi acts, which used to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Star-studded JSA Communications were crowned winners of the 5th All India Invitational MSC Cup Table Tennis Team Championship, which concluded at the multipurpose stadium, Peddem. The JSA Team, propelled by their star players Arjun Ghosh, Sourav Saha, Surojit Das and Moumita Datta, won emphatically, defeating Team AVSC 3-0 in the Open Team event. Swarnedu Chaudhary, Ali MD, Arindam Debnath and Sai Prashant, who had played brilliantly for Team AVSC in the lead-up to the finals, however, found the going tough in the finals against the JSA line-up, which had top national champions such as Sourav Saha and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With a lack of guts to face Congress-led Opposition & deliberate Goofups in Ward Reservations, it appears that double engine BJP Government will Curtail the Assembly Session & eventually delay Panchayat Polls by compelling Citizens to approach Court-charged Deputy CLP Leader & Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar. Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant, by now, must have realised that facing us for almost 25 days in the Assembly will expose the BJP Government completely. He must have got the idea of what lies ahead after glancing at the Legislative Assembly Questions tabled by us. Our MLA Altone D’Costa’s private…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte today expressed displeasure in the Panchayat ward reservation in Bardez taluka, as done by the state election commission. Khaunte said that while the OBC community is not given any reservation, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe reservation is also not as per the population in Bardez panchayats. He explained that reservation is made for the community in panchayats, where there are co-opt SC members. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that his party is ready for the Panchayat elections and that there was no hidden motive behind delaying the elections. “BJP is ready…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The State of Goa saw a 67 per cent jump in GST collection compared to last June. The State has mopped up a revenue collection of Rs 429 crores compared to Rs 256 cr. India’s gross GST revenue collected in June 2022 is ₹144,616 crore, of which CGST is ₹25,306 crore, SGST is ₹32,406 crore, IGST is ₹75887 crore (including ₹40102 crores collected on import of goods) and cess is ₹11,018 crore (including ₹ 1197 crore collected on import of goods). The gross GST collection in June 2022 is the second-highest collection next to the April 2022…

AERIAL VIEW Consider this calculation, a road laying actually costs Rs 100 cr, but the PWD deliberately increases the estimate to Rs 150 cr so that the ministers. Then the tender is given 15-20 per cent above the amount, so it becomes almost Rs 200 cr. Now despite the work being tendered for Rs 200 cr, the contractor carries out the work for just Rs 75 cr by compromising the quality. So who is to be blamed here? Bad roads are the bane of Goa, but people seem to have learnt to live with them and not complain. However, the…