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Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – A veteran freedom fighter from Canacona Shivanand alias Nanda Gaitonde (95) expired last night in Pune after a brief illness. Gaitonde, known to organise Satyagraha, besides Portuguese regime resistance movement, has undergone nearly five years of rigorous imprisonment after he was arrested in 1954 and sentenced to 8 years of rigorous imprisonment. He was, however, released in May 1959. Son of Dattatraya Pundalik Sinai Kakode, Shripad was born at Palolem in Canacona Taluka on 10th February 1927, and is highly educated with B.Sc Dip NFC, MIBF, MBIM National Foundry College in England and was…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Mormugao municipality is likely to call for a meeting with the Vasco Traffic Cell to decide on the pay parking issue. Proper parking is the need of the hour, says MMC chairperson Kaskar. Taking the cognisance of the news report highlighted by Goemkarponn recently related to the occupying the parking spaces by the rent a bike operator, the Mormugao municipal council chairperson has rolled up his sleeves and decided to put the town parking in place with the help of Vasco traffic cell. When questioned about the sorry state of parking in the Vasco town, Mormugao municipal…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Villagers at Loliem-Polem had called for the immediate attention of PWD to rebuild a precariously lying Culvert bridge. However, the Culvert bridge poses a serious threat to motorists and vehicles alike if not attended to early. ‘The underneath of this bridge has all its badly rusted Iron rods protruding out as the lower portion of its slab has fallen down over the years. The upper portion of the bridge slab is intact but completely rests on the rusted Iron rods, just like how Bhism in Mahabharat paid down on the Arrows shot on him’, said Vishant…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: City Councillor inspected the Municipal garden, which will soon be taken up for beautification. Major illumination, functional fountain, etc. are likely to be a significant attraction for the visitors, says City Councillor Shami Salkar. On Friday afternoon, City Councillor Shami Salkar and the engineers of one private organisation who will be beautifying the municipality garden under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) conducted an inspection of this garden to overlook the garden’s present condition. After the inspection, when asked City Councillor Shami Salkar what she proposes to do to beautify this garden, Salkar said that this garden will once…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The unknown accused yesterday at midnight broke open the backside window grills of Shree Navdurga VKSS Society at Marcaim, entered its premises, and committed theft of one laptop and 3000 change (coins). According to Chairman of Society Premanand Gaude, today morning, after the complaint, Ponda Police conducted Panchanama. He said the unknown thieves tried to break open the front door of society; however, as they failed in their attempt, they gained entry to society by removing the backside window grill. The thieves also break open society’s cupboards and throw out all documents in search of cash. Premanand…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today urged the Goa Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to investigate the entire expenditure incurred and the procedure followed in holding that gala Swearing-in-ceremony of Goa Chief Minister and his eight Ministers, which was held on March 28th at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium in Bambolim. In a complaint submitted to the Auditor General of Goa , Adv. Rodrigues has stated that responsibility needs to be fixed on those responsible for this colossal waste of public funds. Adv. Rodrigues, along with his complaint, has submitted a copy of the…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: For obtaining financial schemes, Aadhaar is one important document. However, a few years ago, when Aadhaar car enrollment started in Goa, most operators/ employees involved in Aadhaar card documentation/ preparations were outsiders. People say they have committed so many mistakes in the Aadhar card that people suffering from rectifying those. The locals in Ponda also demanded a permanent Adhaar centre and rectifying the mistakes at one time instead of wasting several days clearing every mistake in the Aadhaar card. Pondaitees are fed up with rectifying mistakes done in their aadhaar card by operators while enrolling for Aadhaar.…