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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: JMFC Mapusa has issued non bailable warrant against Pratima Coutino and Aishwariya Salgaonkar for failing to attend a court hearing in the para teachers agitation that took place in 2017. The Non Bailable Warrant will be executed on August 4. The agitating para teachers had blocked the entrance to the Secretariat on November 2, 2017. Porvorim Police had filed a charge sheet against Coutinho, Savitri Kavlekar and Aishwarya Salgaonkar of Congress and Para Teachers Smita Dessai, Reshma Dessai and Tripti Live. The court had sent them summons on July 3, but Coutinho had not attended the court…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Vasco-based NGO smells a rat in the functioning of the Civil Supplies office in Vasco. Goa First NGO alleges “black marketing” of food grain stocks and the involvement of the department employees. Goa First demands the Director of Civil Supplies department to take cognisance of the matter for the larger public good. Last year, malpractice in the Vasco Civil Supplies office was exposed by Goa First, wherein a person was caught purchasing a rice grain bag in black from this office. From then on, not much seems to have changed for the good. The alleged black marketing…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Delayed works on Dhawalkhazan bridge (Agonda’s Borim-bridge) have posed the dangers of causing floods in the village, even as the monsoon rains have opened up the non-perennial streams triggering river flow. It’s been over a fortnight since the culvert box bridge slabs were done, and the contractor was busy removing the plates on Monday. Incidentally, the heavy rains lashing the taluka have triggered the river flow and blocked the bridge to enable bridge construction and a pathway to maintain movement across the river. Luckily, a small passage for the water to pass out/flow is maintained on…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Vasco fire station office was temporarily shifted to the Disaster management shelter at Dabolim. The piling work of the new fire station project in Vasco is ongoing. On Tuesday morning, the Vasco fire station in charge handed a letter to the Panchayat Minister and MLA of Dabolim constituency Mauvin Godinho. On this occasion, Minister Godinho said that with the monsoon’s entry, there might be fire incidences, and attending to the fire stations play an important role. The Vasco fire station has been shifted to the Disaster management shelter at Dabolim. The shelter was built under world bank…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that the government is committed to resolving all the dwelling rights cases in a phased manner. “With only 3 % of tribals who have been given dwelling rights in the forests out of the 10 thousand cases, CM Sawant informed that the government will resolve all the cases in a phased manner,” said CM Sawant. He further said that despite the SC/ST act being formulated in 2010, the implementation began under Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar when he was the SC/ST Commissioner. “The work on establishing Tribal Research Centre as well as Tribal Museum…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Appreciating and acknowledging social commitments in through political movements, His Holiness Shrimad Vidyadheesh Terth Shripad Vader Swami of Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Mutt felicitated Janardhan Bhandari. Shrimad Vidyadheesh Teerth Shripad Vader Swami of Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Mutt is the 24th Pontiff of the Mutt; felicitated Janardhan Bhandari for his dedicated and noble social work and, more importantly, his committed fight to resolve various issues in Canacona. ‘Canaconakars’ have appreciated Janardhan Bhandari’s passion for the development of Canacona and are aware of how he selflessly fights to resolve various issues in Canacona. According to sources close to Bhandari,…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: At the national level, not only the Ram temple, Kashi, Mathura, Qutub Minar, Taj Mahal and Bhojshala, but thousands of temples have been demolished by the Mughals and Portuguese, the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti aaid. It says India became independent; however, the ancient religious places of Hindus remained in foreign slavery. “Therefore, all the temple organisations, devotees, priests and devout Hindu organisations decided to launch a nationwide campaign for the reconstruction of the temples destroyed by the invaders. If evidence is available regarding demolished temples in Goa, a legal fight will be initiated,” they said. This decision was…