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Shockingly, after all this, the Conservation Committee gave permission for RECONSTRUCTION of the old house, which never existed. Not only this, the Town and Country Planning, in a hurry, granted permission within 11 days after Conservation Committee approval. There is enough evidence for the government to act if it wants to, but sadly, the Sawant led government is sleeping over it for reasons best known to them. Manish Munot is the husband of BJP national spokesperson Shaina NC, and Sawant does not seem to be in the mood to upset the national leaders ahead of elections. However, one opines is…

Goemkarponn desk NEW DELHII: A day after taking oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha, AITC National Vice-President and former Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Luizinho Faleiro today launched a full-blown attack at the ruling BJP government in Goa in his maiden speech which was made during the Zero Hour. Keeping his promise to raise Goa-centric issues in Parliament, the newly elected Rajya Sabha MP called the three contentious linear projects as ‘3 cardinal sins’. He demanded the resumption of sustainable & legal mining and the immediate recovery of Rs 35,000 crore lost due to illegal mining in the…

GOEMKARPONN desk PANAJI: Agrahayana 9, 1941 Goa Housing Board has categorically denied the false and baseless statements made in the news article that appeared in some sections of the print media stating that the Goa Housing Board land at Dhargalhas has been allotted to GMR on lease and is likely to be given to Mopa Airport Authority. Goa Housing Board has informed that they had acquired land admeasuring 1,68,002.00 sq.mts for taking up its Housing Schemes in the year 2012. The Board is in the process of taking up development and the layout plans have been processed for approval/ sanction…

Goemkarponn Desk OLD GOA: The Old Goa Panchayat in its meeting held today has resolved to issue stop work order to the controversial construction of the bunglow in the world heritage site buffer zone. Sarpanch Janita Madkaikar said that the panchayat has also resolved to issue show cause notices to the project proponent as to why the renewal licence as well as the house number allocated for the structure should not be revoked. They have been given 7 days time to reply to the show cause notice. Panchayat has also decided to hold the transfer of ownership of the property…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Forward Party (GFP) today has exposed the land acquisition done by the BJP govt for double railway tracking. GFP has also slammed CM Pramod Sawant for cheating the people of Goa. “Today, we have exposed the land acquisition done by the BJP government for double railway tracking. We have in possession the notification by the government of India,” said GFP Environment Cell Convenor Vikas Bhagat He further said that the double engine government has taken away the land of Goemkars overnight by way of notification. “Former CM Manohar Parrikar had said that he would not hand…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Girish Chodankar has accused BJP Minister of sexually exploiting women and forcing her to abort the child after she conceived. In a press conference held today, Chodankar declined to name the Minister while claiming that Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant is aware of the case. Chodankar also claimed that they have seen the video, WhatsApp messages and audio communication between the Minister and the women. “The said person is not fit to be an MLA or minister; this is a shame to the state that the CM is not acting on…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The citizens of Ponda today gheraoed the Sewerage Officials for slow work and long delay in completion of the Ponda Sewerage Network. Led by Sunil Desai, the locals gheraoed the JE Pradeep Gaude at the Ponda Sewerage Department office today morning. The locals questioned the work schedule. The locals were furious over frequent road digging and also asked the officials not to dig more chambers as they failed to complete sewerage work. The locals pointed out that the PWD is not ready to carry out hot mix carpeting of Ponda roads, citing that the sewerage department’s work…