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Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Mormugao Municipal Council Chairperson Damodar Kaskar is most likely to submit his resignation to the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) this evening. Kaskar completed his one year as a Chairperson of MMC on May 31. People in Mormugao municipal area are most likely to have their new Chairperson in a few days as the Damodar Kaskar, the existing Chairperson, will most likely hand over his resignation from the post of Chairperson of MMC to DMA this evening. There are 25 Councillors in the MMC, and the panel in power consists of councillors backed by Minister Mauvin Godinho,…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: BITS Goa University proudly announces that eight young BITS Pilani students/ alumni have featured in the recently released ‘Forbes 30 under 30 – Asia 2022’ list. Of these, five students/ alumni are from K K Birla Goa Campus. After the release of the list, Prof. Suman Kundu, Director, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, invited and felicitated co-founders of Bluelearn, Harish Uthayakumar and Shreyans Sancheti (2018-2022 batch students of Goa Campus), who have featured in this list. Harish and Shreyans were pleased and felt that Prof. Kundu’s views on the growth of the startup ecosystem and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Terminated Anganwadi staff have now resorted to a chain hunger strike at Azad Maidan after their demands were not accepted. The workers have been protesting at Azad Maidan for the last 5 days. “It’s been more than 6 days that the Anganwadi workers are on #strike, demanding to get back to work. They call for justice and state that their chain hunger strike will continue until their demands are not met,” said Trade Union leader Hrudaynath Shirodkar Shirodkar said that out of 11 demands, only three have been settled by the government. The pending demands are treating…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The coast of Goa witnessed many rescues and emergencies over the recent weekend, which were catered to by Drishti Lifesavers. A total of 30 rescues were conducted while six children were reunited with their families. Baga and Calangute saw the highest number of incidents over the weekend. In an incident at Zalor, two lifesavers manning the point noticed a man riding on a bicycle by the beach and were alerted by the lifesavers to not go too close to the waters. Later he rushed into the water on foot, for which he was alerted by the lifesavers…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The arrest of believer Dominic D’Souza by the Goa Police (Mapusa police) has kicked up a new controversy, with the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant saying that the State will come up with strong anti-conversion law in the forthcoming Assembly. Even as an anti-conversion bill awaits the approval of the Goa Legislative Assembly, legal challenges are already being prepared against it. Sawant said that few MLAs have suggested bringing in a law to ban religious conversion following the arrest of Dominic D’Souza, a Pastor of 5 Pillars Church at Siolim. “Dominic was involved in converting poor and…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Kavlem Panchayat garbage segregation plant shed yesterday midnight caught massive fire, causing a loss of around Rs three lakhs. The dustbin and the shed were also destroyed in fire. The incident occurred around 11 pm yesterday night, and the fire was doused after fiver hours by a Ponda fire personal using 33000 litres of water with five fire tenders used to douse fire. Sarpanch Rajesh Kavlekar suspected sabotage and charged that the shed was deliberately set on fire. In CCTV footage movement of one suspect near the garbage plant is seen. He said some person might have…

Goemkarponn desk BENAULIM: Benaulim MLA Capt. Venzy Viegas said that the need or otherwise for any anti-conversion law in Goa is an unnecessary debate, especially when hard-pressing issues confront the #State and beg attention and action from the government and all of us. “There hasn’t been an occasion for lawmakers of Goa in over 60 years to either debate or act on this matter, and there is nothing to warrant it now,” he said. He further said that enough provisions exist in the Indian Penal Code and other laws for the government and law enforcement to deal with isolated cases…