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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: On a bright Sunday morning, citizens of Panaji were witness to vintage cars, right from a green Hindustan Motors Contessa to a green Chevrolet truck and a convoy of bikes driving past their homes on the second day of the Panjim Carnaval. The classic vehicles were part of the Vintage Car Drive, which was flagged off by Ravi Dhawan, MD and CEO of Imagine Panaji Smart City, Agnelo Fernandes, Commissioner of the City of Panaji, Vivek Parsekar of CCP, Pradeep Naik, from the Samba Square as part of the Panjim City Carnaval celebrations. Organised by Goa Vintage…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: As the Pulse Polio immunization kicked off today 98,245 children’s were administered at the 667 designated booths across Goa. “98254 children were vaccinated with two doses of oral polio today on National Immunization Day,” the DHS said During the Polio Immunization Drive, healthcare workers and others followed all Covid-19 protocols. People were asked to maintain physical distance and wear masks while participating in the drive. The polio eradication program was first launched in India in 1995. It was called the Pulse Polio Immunization programme. This was started after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Polio…

Goemkarponn Desk PERNEM: The farmers affected by the Mopa airport link road today have given 24 hours to the state authorities to immediately stop the ongoing work of the project failure of which they said would protest at the Pernem Police station. The farmers also appealed to people for supporting them in the fight to protect their land and livelihood by joining them in the protest. The affected farmers from villages surrounding the Mopa airport link road site, especially Tulaskarwadi, Shemecha Advan, Nagzar appealed to people from all walks of life  – including social activists, environmentalists today showed their solidarity…

Goemkarponn desk SANVORDEM: Suspense prevails in the Sanvordem constituency. Voters from various areas claim that BJP, MGP, and Independent candidates are strong in certain constituency sections. The Congress and the BJP claim to be in power this assembly election as there is political suspense all over Goa. In some constituencies, there is a possibility of a close fight, Sanvordem constituency is one of them. In that first’ name comes is of ex PWD minister Deepak Pawaskar, who contested as an independent candidate, BJP candidate of Sanvordem Ganesh Gaokar and MGP Party’s Balaji Gawas are also in the race for becoming…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The Bandora locals demanded that Government and NH Authorities improve and reduce the size of accident prone GVM Circle at Farmagudi Ponda due to frequent fatal accidents. Like the Borim Circle, this Circles has also become a headache to commuters. Rajesh Naik, a Bandora panch member, said the GVM circle has become an accident-prone zone, and so to prevent accidents, the size of the Circle should be reduced. He said there is a need to study why the accident occurred at the same spot. “For past many years, we saw several accidents including fatal at the spot.…

SURAJ NANDREKAR/ Goemkarponn desk MOPA: Even as several farmers are still fighting for their compensation for the land acquisition of Mopa airport, the State government has mooted another draconian plan of acquiring huge tracts of land (5.25 lakh sq metres) for the Expressway connecting the NH17 to the Airport. The Central government, in November 2020, granted National Highway (NH) status to the project. While the State is upbeat about saving the costs of the Expressway, hundreds of farmers are left wondering about their future due to another land acquisition. Team Goemkarponn travels to Casarvanem and Tulaskarwadi and the places where…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: MGP today said that it is not very keen on challenging the High Court of Bombay at Goa order on disqualification and in turn wait for March 10 election results and then think of next course of action. The MGP today held its executive committee meeting to dicuss on High Court final order on its disqualification. “We have held our meeting today and we resolved not to challenge the HC verdict on disqualification in the Supreme atleast at the moment” said MGP President Deepak Dhavalikar after the meeting He further said that they would Inturn wait for…