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AERIAL VIEW While out of the 40 elected representatives, almost all are highly corrupt, many have taken away the rights of Goans and handed them over to migrants, who are their vote banks, and others have degraded the environment completely. However, as Goa celebrates Diwali today, let all Goans pledge to send all the 40 where they belong by electing new honest faces. They say you get what you voted for. It’s high time Goans have to unite and elect honest people who would listen to the people and work for their welfare and retain Goa’s identity. In the past…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Government has terminated the lease deed dated June 19, 1997 executed by the Government of Goa with Indian Resort Hotels Limited (now M/S The Indian Hotels Company Limited) and the said termination shall be effective from six months from the date of issue of the order. The Department of Tourism had acquired land admeasuring 313630 sq. mts. at Aguada Plateau, Sinquerim, Candolim, Bardez under survey No. 96/0(part) at the cost of Rs. 53.02 lakhs to provide recreational and amusement facilities to the tourists. It may be informed that an area of 3.00 lakhs square metres from…

Mumbai 30 October 2021: Hungama Play, a leading video on demand platform owned by Hungama Digital Media, today launched Meter Down, a new Hungama Original in Marathi and Hindi. A comedy drama about relationships that blossomed digitally in the age of social distancing, the show features superstars of the Marathi entertainment industry, Saorabh Choughule, Prarthana Behere, Parth Bhalerao, Rasika Sunil and Gayatri Datar in lead roles, along with Palak Gangele, Madhuri Desai and Suyash Tilak. Produced by Ganraj Associates and Amol Padave Films, the show is written and directed by Amol Padave. An assistant to a famous Bollywood photographer, Sankarshan…

Goemkarponn desk The word Diwali has originated from Deepavali, which in turn is formed as deep (lamp) + avali (row). Deepavali is thus a row of lamps. During Diwali, lamps are lit everywhere. When Lord Ram returned to Ayodhya after completing fourteen years in exile, his subjects celebrated by lighting lamps. Since then, the festival of Diwali has been celebrated. Deepavali is celebrated on four consecutive days – the 13th, the 14th and the new moon day of the dark fortnight of the Hindu lunar month of Ashwin and the first day of the bright fortnight of Kartik. In this…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: On Tuesday, new road projects worth ₹ 1,250 crores for the state of Goa were approved by the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced four new phases of road development work in the state. “A number of schemes have been approved for the development of the state”, he said. The new works sanctioned were – the road from Navelim to Cuncolim will be six and a half km long. For this, 24 hectares of land has been acquired, and the estimated cost of the road is Rs. 270 crores. Also, the 8…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In an interesting development, the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) has decided to go all alone and scrap alliance talks, if any, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, who is in Goa, sparked off alliance talks rumours when he said he would meet MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar. CM Pramod Sawant also said that the BJP was ready for talks with like-minded parties. However, the party’s Central Committee on Tuesday decided against any alliance talks with BJP. MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar said that the Central Committee was of the…

Sudin Dhavalikar, who was the Dy CM then, was sacked unceremoniously by splitting the two MGP MLAs – Deepak Pauskar and Babu Azgaonkar. Not just MGP, Sawant also sacked Goa Forward MLAs – Vijai Sardesai, Vinod Payekar and Jayesh Salgaocar after engineering a major split in Opposition Congress, he took the decision wherein 10 MLAs joined the BJP in a midnight coup. He also sacked independent MLA Rohan Khaunte. This all happened in 2019. Two years later, the situation is quite different. Sawant is in command but has lost control simply because BJP has failed to follow the “alliance dharma”…