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Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Tawadkar, along with PWD officials, discussed the construction of an Arch and the Beautification of the checkpost at the Goa-Karnataka border. Tawadkar also sought to know the details for planning the 4-Lane widening/Construction of Maxem (from the endpoint of Manohar Parikar Canacona Bypass Road (MPCBR)) to Polem Checkpost/Goa State Border road. The PWD officials also present were: Executive Engineer, WD XIV (NH) PWD Margao, Dattaprasad Kamat, Assistant Engineer(Highway), Canacona Rajesh Gaude, Technical Assistants – Jerimonio Vaz and Nagraj Adpaikar, besides a representative of Aarvee consultancy (Consultant) Anil Kumar. It may be recalled that the Checkpost border was…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Contract employees from the Ponda Post Office, retrenched from service, submitted a memorandum to Union Minister of State Shripad Naik. The memorandum demanded immediate withdrawal of the Maharashtra GDS / Postman appointed in Goa and reinstate Goan employees ‘ services in the post office. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Vice President Adv Surel Tilve, who accompanied the di missed workers, urged the Union Minister to raise the issue in Parliament and to demand changes in the recruitment rules so that Goan youth receive preferential treatment in all the Central government departments having offices in the State. Tilve said…

STHRIGDHARA NAIK/ Goemkarponn PANAJI: Director General of police (DGP)-Goa, Jaspal Singh, on Saturday informed Goemkarponn about the process initiated by the Goa police to enforce a Tenant Verification Act. He added that the same proposal has already been forwarded for Government’s approval”. Informing further, DGP said the Goa police has received a good response for the ‘Know Your neighbour’ drive. “Under this drive, we have received the details of 36,000 tenants of different Nationalities who have been residing in the State of Goa since January 2022”, added DGP. To date, the Foreigners branch of Goa police has taken 103 foreigners…

Goemkarponn desk UGUEM:After a senior teacher refused to join duty in the remote village of Uguem in South Goa, Premanand Rekdo, a D.Ed (Diploma in Education) qualified youngster and ex-student has taken the onus of teaching in government schools students pro bono. With Rekdo teaching in the unattended and ignored government school for four days now, local villagers have hailed this good samaritan and his story has gone viral in Goa. The Education Department on Thursday ordered an inquiry about the teacher, who disobeyed the order to take charge of this primary school. Primary Government School in Valkini-Uguem, having Class…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Congress MLA Adv Carlos Ferreira is of the clear opinion that with the Opposition lacking majority, it is impossible to bring a POGO bill to the House. Ferreira also said that the Congress party believes in people’s aspirations and hence feels there is a need to work out some mechanism. “Opposition can’t bring a bill, we can only move a private members bill, but you know it will never get passed because there is no majority. So you can’t fool people by just trying to bring a bill which will get knocked off,” the MLA said. Referring…

Goemkarponn desk HYDERABAD: Hyderabad JMFC Court has granted 14 days of judicial custody to Hill Top Goa owner for his involvement in one of the NDPS cases. John Steven D’Souza is the owner of the Hill Top restaurant at Anjuna, next to the Sunburn Goa venue. The Hyderabad cops led by Sreedhar Reddy – Police Inspector (Detection), Osmania University Police Station, Hyderabad City, Telangana State, arrested two persons, John Stephen D’Souza aka Steve, involved and named in CR No 374/2022 u/s 8C, 22(C) and section 27 of the NDPS Act. The Hyderabad cops have been searching for the accused for…