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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant led cabinet has granted approval to the appointment of independent staff for lifetime cabinet minister Pratapsingh Rane “Cabinet has approved the appointment of Independent Staff for Lifetime Cabinet Minister Pratap Singh Rane,” said CM Sawant. He further said that Pratapsingh Rane will be getting all the benefits of the cabinet post. Chief Minister, however, refused to comment on the petition filed by Adv Aires Rodrigues, challenging the constitutional validity of the notification bestowing lifetime cabinet status on former chief minister Pratapsingh Rane. “Our government has decided to grant lifelong Cabinet status to the…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: GOACAN coordinator Roland Martins has expressed concern about the present condition of the KTC Bus Stand Ponda, wherein the entire seating area has been barricaded, kiosks shut, and the work for repairs yet to start, thereby putting consumers of public transport to immense hardship. Keeping in mind the approaching monsoons, GOACAN in a letter to the Director of Transport Rajan Satardekar, has pointed out that the Ponda KTC Bus Stand needs an urgent intervention if the situation is to improve and the repairs are to be undertaken on a war footing. It may be noted that after…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: The hot-mixing works may have begun and are going-on on a war footing on NH-66 road, but persisting the mission against bad to continue, Canacona Congress reiterated its demand to stop overloaded and over-speeding commercial vehicles and Mining trucks on Canacona-Margao NH-66 section. GPCC General Secretary Janardhan Bhandari, with other Congress functionaries and Goa Forward leader Vikas Bhagat, called on the Dy Collector (Canacona) Madhu G Narvekar and submitted a second Memorandum, reminding him to take immediate action on the memorandum submitted on 24th March to ban traffic of overloading, overspeeding commercial vehicles and mining trucks as…

Make A Difference (MAD), the NGO working for the upliftment of underprivileged vulnerable children, has been named as one of the three honorees for the prestigious 2022 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Selected from almost 100 organizations globally, honorees will receive an unrestricted financial award of $100,000 and executive training and support from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. The Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize at the University of Pennsylvania acknowledges efforts from individuals and organisations towards initiating far-reaching transformation in the social sector. The evaluation criteria of the award are leadership, impact, innovation and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Don Bosco Vocational Training Institute (DBVTI), Quepem, associated with the Khadi and Village Industries Board (KVIB), Panjim, recently conducted another beekeeping course. Approximately 23 individuals from various parts of Goa enthusiastically participated in this day-long offline seminar held at the DBVTI premises, Quepem, on Saturday, April 23, for a nominal fee of Rs 400. An experienced apiculturist, P Shaliyo, educated and trained the participants on how to handle the bees, besides providing them valuable knowledge about the different seasons, flowering plants, the feeding and maintenance of the bees during the monsoons. The DBVTI, Quepem director Fr Michael…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Indian Navy states the allegations that access to Ayyappa Temple, Varunapuri, has been blocked. Navy claims that access to the Ayyappa temple has been through Ram mandir gate. As per the statement issued by the Indian Navy, access to the Ayyappa temple at Varunapuri has always been through the Ram Mandir gate; and this passage still provides unhindered access to the temple. This gate also includes access to other religious structures in the vicinity _viz_ St Mary’s Church, Kali temple, Ram Mandir, and the PWD reservoir. Further, the press statement says that the Court of South Goa,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: For the last three years now, one name in the police department that is of Sagar Ekoskar, who has been recently promoted to the position of Deputy Superintendent, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Be it the Melauli agitation, the mining agitation or assaulting a panch member, Sagar Ekoskar does not seem to believe in courts and likes to take the law into his own hands in a typical Bollywood villain style. Recently, he has been in the news after the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in New Delhi has asked the State government…