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Goemkarponn desk SANCOALE: Sancoale Sarpanch Girish Pillai, along with the residents, conducted an inspection of the Marman Shipyard on Thursday morning over an alleged dredging activity. During the inspection of Marman Shipyard over, Sarpanch Panchayat instructed the Shipyard in charge to stop the ongoing work and reverse the damage done at the Sancoale bay area. After issuing a stop-work order to the Marman Shipyard on Wednesday, Sancoale Sarpanch Girish Pillai conducted a site inspection of the Marman Shipyard on Thursday morning and the panch member and residents. Later, Sancoale Sarpanch Girish Pillai said that after conducting an inspection at Marman…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that he will step into the ongoing controversy surrounding ODPs. “Will step in into the ongoing controversy surrounding ODPs; will go through PC held by LoP Michael Lobo and go into it,” said CM Sawant. Speaking on the COVID situation, Sawant said that his government is monitoring Covid situation while requesting citizens to follow all COVID-19 protocols. Chief Minister also informed that the cabinet has accorded approval to the appointment of former DGP ID Shukla as a member of the Goa State Police Complaint Authority.

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that Dev Darshan Scheme, as started by the state government, is open to the public. “The scheme is open, but for the tour to start, we need a minimum of 1000 forms from the public, and once this is achieved, then the train will be booked,” said CM Sawant. He further said that forms are available at the office of the Deputy Collector and Social Welfare department. “As of now, we have received 350 forms; the scheme is valid for darshan to Shirdi and Valankani,” he added. The scheme, which was implemented…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo today said that he will approach the court if the authorities revoke the sanads issued. Lobo also charged TCP Minister Vishwajit Rane with targetting him personally. “Every term, a minister will come and say that the previous ODP is wrong; the CTP during the last term was the same, and if it was wrong, why did he approve it. Some are poor people; if their sanads are revoked, they will approach the court, and I will support them financially,” said Lobo. Lobo also alleged that newspapers and channels are used as a…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Asserting children should be aware of snakes and their mitigation process, NGO Goenkar organised a snake-bites awareness and Mitigation program at Khotigao School on Wednesday. Goenkar, in collaboration with Kasturba Medical College, Manipal guided the School students of Government High School, Khotigao, on how to tackle snake bites and their prevention. The students were particularly briefed on the preventive measures and first-aid to mitigate the snake bites. The present situation is snakes venomous and non-venomous can be encountered anywhere in and around the residences, and hence every person should be aware of them and their behaviours’,…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The Commuters and Kundaim locals have demanded dividers on Manaswada Kundaim road which leads towards Village Panchayat Kundaim. According to locals, the 200-meter long road with 14-metre width has become accident-prone in the absence of dividers. This road stretch connects to Ponda Panajim NH, and thus, vehicles proceeding on NH sometimes get confused and proceed towards Manaswada road as it is too wide than NH passing from Kundaim. Since the road is too wide, vehicles are speeding and inviting accidents. Earlier in the past several accidents had occurred at Manaswada road, including fatal. Viraj Sapre at Ponda…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Power Minister Sudin Dhavlikar said that his first dream is to make every Goans happy with his work to improve power supply, and thereafter he will see that no industries in Goa would shut down due to a shortage of power supply. In fact, he said, he will take care that more industries come to Goa. He admitted that there are power fluctuations in Goa, but then he likes to work on it and bring changes. He said we need to understand why there are power breakdowns and fluctuations. “Some of the reasons include increased load on…