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Goemkarponn desk BICHOLIM: The Dalit Community from Sal village turned out in large numbers on Monday to pay floral tribute to Dr BR Ambedkar on his 65th death anniversary. Congress leader and social activist from Bicholim, Meghashyam Raut, addressed the gathering and urged the gathering to follow Ambedkar’s principles of compassion and equality in society. On occasion, the Congress leader spoke on Babasaheb Ambedkar being a politician and social reformer who campaigned against social discrimination towards the untouchables (Dalits). While paying respect to the leader, the gathering said that to free India from discriminatory practices was the only way to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Five crew members from a shipping vessel that had arrived in Goan waters on Nov 18 have tested positive for covid. In view of the Omicron threat, samples of all five patients have been sent for genome sequencing at National Center for Cell Science Lab, Pune. “We have taken them as a suspect for omicron and isolated them,” informed State Epidemiologist Dr Utkarsh Betodkar. He added that reports of the Pune lab are expected by Wednesday or Thursday. Three of those who have tested positive are from Russia, while the other two are from Georgia. Three crew…

Goemkarponn Desk BICHOLIM: Bicholim Police have arrested three accused and have recovered almost 95 percent stolen explosive and detonators in the explosives theft case. The accused have identified as Pritesh Gawde, Gauresh Sanguadkar and Krishna Gaonkar. The accused has confessed that he stolen explosive to use to catch fish. Police has also named godown owner an accused for negligence in taking security measures. Navy divers were pressed into service to search the missing explosives in a river at Sattari. According to the accused, they had pushed the explosives into the river from a bridge. However, the Navy failed to find…

Goemkarponn desk Goa has a history of horse-trading and defections. In order to resolve the problem Aam Aadmi Party candidates will sign a legal affidavit; promising not to switch parties, said Arvind Kejriwal, AAP national convenor and Delhi CM during his visit to the state. He said, “Horse-trading and defections are the biggest problems in Goan politics. Every day there is a news report that someone has switched parties”. Adding he said, “Therefore, to resolve this problem, AAP candidates will sign an affidavit and distribute it among Goan voters, assuring them they won’t jump to other party. If they do,…

Goemkarponn desk AAP leader Advocate served a notice to Old Goa Panchayat on Monday, asking them to take action against the illegal structure erected at Old Goa heritage site. Earlier, the TCP had issued a revocation order; later on feast day, it had directed Old Goa Panchayat to take the required action in relation to the revocation order and licenses issued to the owner, stated Palekar. On the day of the feast, Palekar had broken his fast and promised that moving forward, as a lawyer, he would ensure that the structure is demolished. As promised, he had written a letter…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In a significant political development, the state’s oldest regional political front- Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) today decided to forge a pre-poll alliance with the Mamata Banerjee led All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) for the upcoming 2022 elections, due within two months. The MGP Central committee that met today under the chairmanship of Deepak Dhavalikar unanimously resolved to join hands with TMC. The party claimed that TMC has agreed in principle to share 13 seats with MGP. Addressing a press conference after the central committee meeting, Dhavalikar said that the decision to ally with TMC has been taken…

AERIAL VIEW With anti-incumbency being a significant factor against BJP’s third straight bid for ruling the State, the saffron brigade banked on the MGP alliance to avoid dividing the Hindu votes. Both BJP and MGP have similar ideologies and are basically looked upon as right-wing parties. However, similar to what happened in Maharashtra wherein BJP ally Shiv Sena deserted them to form a government with Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, MGP too has deserted the saffron party in Goa only due to the sheer arrogance of BJP leadership. The MGP move is justifiable as the BJP has failed to…