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CM Sawant urges opposition MLAs to discuss the issue Speaker’s foyer Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: The Opposition benches brought up the issue of violence in Manipur on the House floor once more today after lifting their 24-hour suspension. LoP Yuri Alemao and GFP MLA Vijai Sardesai wanted a debate on the House floor. The opposition was urged by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to speak with the speaker about the matter in the foyer. The Speaker asked the opposition to bring up this subject on private members’ day. The Speaker had banned a private members’ resolution on the Manipur issue that had…

* Bhoma villagers allege Government scrapped the proposed bypass road to favour the builder lobby * Give two days deadline for Chief Minister to clarify the issue Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The locals from Nagzar and Bhoma on Monday evening protested against the land acquisition notice for the NH widening plan from the existing road. The locals gathered at the meeting at Nagzar temple premises said Government is out to destroy their village. “We will die but never allow to destroy our scenic Bhoma Village. We give a two-day deadline to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to clarify on land acquisition issue,”…

Min Dhavalikar cornered in Assembly over staff shortage & contract workers issue in Goa Elect Dept Nearly 20% of positions at the Electricity Dept vacant, how does dept function, questioned Digambar MLA Sequeira says min doing injustice to contract workers Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: The ruling MLAs criticized Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar today over the Goa Electricity Department’s inability to function without the necessary manpower. Nearly 20% of the positions in the Electricity Department are unfilled, according to MLA Digambar Kamat, who questioned how the department could continue to operate with such vacancies. According to Minister Sudin Dhavalikar, the Staff Selection…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Activist Claude Alvares of the Goa Foundation said the Bombay HC judgment would “have a very significant impact on the four wildlife sanctuaries”, namely, Mhadei, Bhagwan Mahavir, Netravali and Cotigao. “Out of the 745.18 sq km protected area, around 578.33 sq km is proposed as the core zone and about 166.85 sq km as the buffer in the forest department’s working plan. “This will put [these areas] in a different level of protection,” he explained. Moreover, it would also impact linear projects like the controversial proposal for double-tracking the railway line from Castlerock in Karnataka to Kulem…

According to the police, the driver lost control of the vehicle as he approached the narrow bridge and veered off the bridge Goemkarponn desk SANGUEM: The deceased have been identified as Milind Naik (38) Rekha Yadav Naik (35), and their son aged between two and three. While the bodies of the mother and child were found inside the car after it was fished out shortly after the accident around 11 pm on Monday, Milind’s body was found around 10 am on Tuesday. According to the police, Milind lost control of the vehicle as he approached the narrow bridge and veered…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The work of construction of a six-lane link road (NH-166S) with paved shoulder configuration to Mopa Airport on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) mode in the State of Goa is in progress for which one lane each on the right side and left side of the median of flyover at Sukekulan junction, Dhargal at Ch.492/554 of NH66 was temporarily closed for two months between June 1, 2023, to July 31, 2023, to set up of scaffolding work for the erection of Bow-String structure. Now, the Executive Engineer of Division-VII(NH) PWD, Panaji Goa, In-charge of the Highway stretch…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Tennis Ball Cricket Association have selected the following players in men section who will represent Goa State Team for the All India Inter Zonal Tennis Ball Cricket Championship to be held at Sundernagar Himachal Pradesh from 5th to 7th August 2023. 1) Abhishek Gaonkar 2) Deep Palni 3) Harsh Gala 4) Sarvesh Gawas 5) Smitesh Sawant 6) Kaushal Churi 7) Akshay Satarkar 8) Samarth Naik 9) Maruti Patil 10)Shoaib Ansari 11) Punit khandeparkar 12) Mahadev Malik 13)Saheel Gawde 14) Akash Lamani The above teams will leave on 2nd August 2023 by train and will return on…