Author: Team Admin

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – In one of the major achievements in the Taluka, five aided and 3 government schools scored 100% pass percentage in the 2022 SSC Results declared on Wednesday. Shree Balram Residential HS, Amone, with the highest number of candidates (71) who answered the 2022 SSC Examinations, 70 students were declared to pass (@98.59%), missing the 100% pass percentage by just one student. Government High Schools at Agonda(159, Gaondongrim (25) and Khotigao,(17) and Aided Schools St. Anne’s Institute, Agonda (60), St. Anthony HS, Galgibaga (34), St. Sebastian HS, Loliem (34), Shri Nirakar Vidyalaya, Maxem (26) and Shri Damodar…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHE) today declared that 92.75% of the SSC students passed in the results announced on Wednesday evening, much lower than the 99.72% who passed the previous year. Out of the 20,345 students that were for the SSC, 18,869 passed. A mere 99 students have been placed under reserve. As per information, from the 10,309 boys, 9,491 passed, taking the pass percentage to 91.62 per cent. In terms of 9,986 girls, 9,378 passed taking the total percentage to 93.91 per cent. “This time, the pass percentage of 92.75 per cent…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Conditions are favourable for the further advance of the Southwest monsoon into some more parts of the central Arabian Sea. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Southwest Monsoon will further advance over some parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the Konkan belt, including Goa, in the next two to three days. The monsoon will also advance over the remaining parts of the Bay of Bengal, northeastern states and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the coming few days. The monsoon reached Kerala on May 29. The IMD, in its weather bulletin, said, “Southwest Monsoon has advanced over some more parts of central Arabian Sea,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said the excessive use of mobile phones across age brackets had led to a slew of cyber frauds being reported in the state. “Some (cybercrime) cases are not reported, most of the time due to a lack of awareness among the people. Many people have lost their money as they (scamsters) ask to transfer the money. One of my friends transferred Rs 35 lakh directly,” said CM Sawant. He further said that there is cybercrime among students, youths, adults, and senior citizens. “We are receiving so many cyber complaints in our cyber cell,”…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Even as the Smart City is crying for help and freedom from flooding and traffic jams, the IPSCDL- the Special purpose vehicle for Smart City seems to be busy with cycling now. Imagine Panaj| Smart City Development ltd in association with the Corporation of the City of Panaji to celebrate World Bicycle Day and World Environment Day on June 3. The IPSCDL says United Nations General Assembly has declared 3rd June as World Bicycle Day, acknowledging the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, which has been In use for two centuries, and that It is a…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Vasco fish market vendors signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Mormugao Municipal Council on shifting to a new temporary shed and building the new fish market within 18 months. On Wednesday morning, a group of Vasco fish market fish vendors, along with Fr. Micheal Fernandes, met the Mormugao Municipal Council Chief Officer and Chairperson and signed an MoU between the Vasco fish market vendors and MMC. Later, speaking to the reporters, Fr. Micheal Fernandes said that the Vasco fish vendors were promised that they would be shifted to the newly built temporary shed. Within 18…

* I don’t have a habit of giving jobs just to people of my constituency: CM Sawant *100 % of the jobs offered at Mopa Airport are given to people of Pernem, says Sawant Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In an indirect dig at his cabinet colleague Vishwajit Rane, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that 100 per cent of the jobs offered at Mopa International Airport had been given to the people of Pernem. Sawant also denied claims of any recruitment offered to the people of his constituency Sankhali. “I’m not in the habit of giving jobs just to people in…