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AAP Goa’s Cuncolim unit led by Cuncolim Assembly incharge Prashant Naik filed a complaint with Cuncolim police on Thursday, after Cuncolim office was vandalised the Party posters and banners. Naik filed a police complaint against unknown miscreants trespassed in the new office. He said in the complaint, ” On Saturday, 7/11/ 2021, we inaugurated the party office at Philips building in the Cuncolim market.  The main objective of this office was to help the residents of Cuncolim with various government schemes and other matters”. He alleged political opponents behind the act. He said, “on Wednesday at late night, some unknown…

Aam Aadmi Party appointed Vikesh Assotikar as the party’s spokespersons in the state. Assotikar was an active member of Congress since 2012. He became part of IT cell of Goa congress party, in 2014. He was North Goa district president of IT cell of Goa Congress Party in 2015. In 2017, he contested assembly elections from Pernem constituency on Congress ticket. He has been associated with JCI (junior chamber international) and was Goa president in the year 2012 and was the National Director of JCI India in 2013. Assotikar said, “I was impressed by the Kejriwal’s way of work. Because…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Mapusa MLA Joshua De Souza today said that BJP should take action against Calangute MLA Micheal Lobo for openly announcing candidates. “BJP should take action agaisnt Calangute MLA Micheal Lobo for openly announcing candidates. This is a clear indication that he is on his way to the Congress party,” said Joshua. He further said such statements made by Lobo does not affect him as a candidate but affects the party as a whole. “Bardez has 7 candidates, and such statements will have an effect on their candidature. Lobo is on a wrong path, and some action should…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The revised guidelines for inter­national arrivals have exempted children below five years from compulsory RT-PCR testing before and after their arrival in India. However, if found symptomatic for Covid-19 on arrival or during home quarantine period, they would have to undergo testing and be treated as per laid down protocol, the guidelines said. The new guidelines have also added Singapore to the list of countries-at-risk, which now includes ten nations. Travellers coming from a country with which India has reciprocal arrangements for mutual acceptance of WHO approved Covid-19 vaccines are allowed to leave the airport if they…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: A day after the 10-man panel appointed by NGT on Western bypass recommended the road on stilts, some prominent citizens, along with Goa Forward Party, stopped the work on the bypass. The ten-member committee appointed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) to execute a plan of action for the proposed alignment of the remaining 2.75-kilometre stretch of the Margao National Highway Western bypass from Seraulim to Benaulim has recommended a modified approach. The panel has suggested that an elevated structure of 0.98 km be constructed to avoid part diversion of River Sal and fill a water body. Taking…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: The BJP Government in Goa after coming to power in 2012 has converted the International Film Festival of India in to International Fraud Festival of India and transformed Entertainment Society of Goa into Extravagant Society of Goa, the Congress said today. The GPCC said the recent announcement of the insensitive BJP Government headed by Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant to screen Goan Konkani and Marathi Films in International Film Festival of India 2021 is a Jumla. “We want to warn the Government that if the Films of the Goan Film Makers are not included in the Official…

Goemkarponn desk Vasco: A gas laying pipeline contractor on Friday while laying a gas pipeline , damaged a culvert that connects Sancoale industrial estate, residential areas and an old petrol pump . The incident caused concerns to many residents, who then approached the local panch Arish Kadar. Kadar, however, informed about the incident to Sarpanch Girish Pillai who immediately arrived on the site along with Panchayat secretary and carried out an inspection of the works. Pillai later speaking to reporters said that while the panchayat was pro development, such errors carried out by contactors could prove dangerous ‘This is the…