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Goemkarponn Desk BERLIN (Germany): Goa’s Taniya Ulhas Usgaonkar kept up to her promise of a second individual medal clinching a silver in roller-skating on a rain-marred day at the 2023 Special Olympics Summer Games in Berlin, on Friday. With heavy rains forcing stoppage of all outdoor sports, it was Goa’s Usgaonkar keeping up to her promise of winning a second medal for herself as she ended second best in the 30 metres slalom race. The student from Keshav Seva Sadhana, Bicholim was at her near-best as she ended behind Mohammed Nissar, while leaving Romania’s Corina Campeanu for the bronze in…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Opportunist Power Minister Ramkrishna alias Sudin Dhavalikar should either show guts and advise corrupt BJP Government’s Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant to stop spending crores on events and use funds to buy electrical Insulators and Conductors to solve frequent Power Interruptions and give relief to Goans or Resign, demanded Congress Media Cell Chairman Amarnath Panjikar. Reacting sharply to the statement made by Power Minister Ramkrishna alias Sudin Dhavalikar claiming that it is because of the faulty age-old Insulators and Conductors which are causing frequent power interruptions in Goa, Amarnath Panjikar demanded that Power Department must come up…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: TCP Minister Vishwajit Rane said that directions have been given to the DCF south to process the file for the road work on Karmal Ghat on top priority. “Directions have been given to the DCF south to process the file for the road work on Karmal Ghat on top priority. Along with the forest, we must also ensure the safety of the people,” said Rane He further said that the work has been pursued by Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar; the road is an accident-prone area; the lives of the people cannot be compromised. “Hence, strict directions have been…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Justice V K Jadhav led one man commission of inquiry probing land grabbing cases in Goa has directed the Special Public Prosecutor to procure all the investigation papers from the Special Investigation Team(SIT) and place them before the commission in batches of 5 cases. The first batch of 5 cases are to be placed before the Commission on June 26. Commission has directed to produce the lot of next five folders, after the first lot of folders is returned back to the SIT in 2 days time. Incidentally, the commission had issued an order yesterday that hearings…

Goemkarponn Desk MAPUSA: Sudhir Sangwan, the main accused in the Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat murder case, got bail from the trial court in Goa today after being in jail for nearly ten months. Phogat, a social media influencer and BJP leader from Hisar, died in Goa on the intervening night of August 22-23 last year. The court has granted bail on a bond of Rs 1 lakh. Sudhir Sangwan was arrested by the Goa Police on August 25, 2022. Another accused in the murder case, Sukhwinder, too had got bail on May 3 Sonali’s family had alleged that Sudhir…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Alleging that false promises of BJP government is not auguring well for the Agriculture area, Congress on Friday demanded white paper on fallow land and crop production of the state. GPCC General Secretary Moreno Rebelo along with other leaders gheraoed the agriculture director over nonpayment of subsidy and support price to farmers and demanded to increase the assistance. Congress leader Viriato Fernades, Everson Vales, Muktamala Fondekar, Vishal Volvoikar, John Nazareth and others were present. Moreno Rebelo said that when the government announces schemes, farmers expect that they should get benefit of it, however they are not getting…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA – 4(Four) Government Primary Schools (GPS) in Canacona have been closed this academic year (2023-24), even as the enrollments of students in government primary schools have fallen to 1035 against the last academic year’s (2022-23) 1059 enrollments. 3(Three) Government Primary Schools had to be closed for want of students when the schools reopened for the last academic year (2022-23), informed Canacona ADEI Lawrence Pereira, when contacted. Pereira further informed that except for one, all the other three single teacher run GPS’s, the sole teacher have also retired at the end of last academic year, while one teacher…