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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said that the state government is working unabated to ensure the state gets a genome sequencing machine at the earliest. “The government of Goa is working unabated to ensure we get a genome sequencing machine at the earliest; this will enable us to test samples in the state and avail results at the earliest,” said Rane He further said that the govt of Goa is already in the process of procuring a genome sequencing machine. USAID & Jhpeigo has already given us assurances in this regard. “I have issued directions to Dean GMC…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant took a dig at the Opposition for instigating the Anganwadi workers, who protested at his official residence. CM Sawant said that his government has fulfilled 90 per cent of the demands of the Anganwadi workers in November. This protest outside my residence is totally baseless, and even they have not submitted any memorandum to my office,” he said. Sawant said that the protestors have not given any statement about the agitation being carried out by the Anganwadi workers. Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant said this while addressing a function at the complex…

Goemkarponn desk SANGUEM: The BJP workers have expressed displeasure over the removal of Navnath Naik as the BJP Sanguem block president. Naik mentioned during the press briefing that the party’s state president Sadanand Tanawade has contacted him and said that he will be promoted and will be given bigger responsibility.” Speaking further, Navnath Naik said that in 2012, when they walked around the constituency with Vasudev Gaokar and Subhash Phal Desai, why didn’t today’s leaders take action against us as they took anti-party action. “No one has a right to remove someone as a party worker, as what president said…

Goemkarponn desk SANCOALE: The debate of outsider and insider in Goa has just started to get much stronger with assembly elections nearing fast. People of Goa are not pleased to see that many non-Goans aspire to contest and come to power. Adding more fodder and fuel to this debate, the Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho publicly pitched Sancoale Sarpanch Girish Pillai for the BJP candidature from the Cortalim constituency to defeat a Goan former BJP MLA Alina Saldhana. During a public function at Zuarinagar, Panchayat minister Mauvin Godinho said that the people of the Cortalim constituency needs a person with experience…

Last time Congress MLAs defected, this time Congress can’t even stop its candidates from Jumping AAP candidates to sign legal affidavits; promising not to switch parties : Amit Palekar Those switching parties will be disqualified immediately: Amit Palekar Palekar says legal affidavit will be a public document Aam Aadmi Party leader Amit Palekar questioned Congress on Thursday, if they could provide any guarantees that their candidate would not defect. “There is no single party in the state that will ensure that its candidate will not join the BJP. In 2019, ten Congress MLAs joined the BJP. Now, as the Congress…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: As Goa gets into party mood to welcome the new year, the coastal State witnesses surge in fresh COVID-19 cases daily. On Wednesday, State recorded 170 cases, with daily positivity rate going above five per cent. The State government on Wednesday made compulsory COVID19 negative certificate or 100 per cent vaccination for entering casinos, spa, massage parlour, places of public amusement, restaurants, pub, bar, hall, auditorium, marriage venue, cinema halls, river cruises, water and entertainment parks. The capacity is also restricted to 50 per cent. On Wednesday, State recorded 170 new COVID-19 cases, a jump by 58…

Sandeep Vazarkar was a BJP karyakarta for almost a decade and two weeks ago joined the Trinamool Congress Party after the saffron brigade gave an entry to his bete-noire Rohan Khaunte. At the times when Rohan Khaunte had been attacked the BJP, be it during Laxmikant Parsekar tenure as the Chief Minister or Dr Pramod Sawant, Vazarkar has stood strong with BJP. But soon after Vazarkar joined TMC, things changed dramatically. The Serula Communidade and scam is nothing new and has been in the news since 2015, but, shockingly, the action is being initiated just before elections. SURAJ NANDREKAR Editor,…