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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Health Minister Vishajit Rane seems to have violated the circular issued by Finance Ministry on making the GST registration compulsary for contractors and suppliers. By considering Arjun Life Science for ventilator order for 59 ventilators, the Goa Medical College has violated the Finance Ministry’s rule. According to a circular of Spetember 20, 2018, All contractors and equipment suppliers which deal with government departments have to register on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) portal and file their returns to continue doing business with the state government, the state finance department has said in a notification. Departments have…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested the accused Esteven D’Souza, in connection with a land grabbing case. “The SIT has registered another FIR in illegal land grab at Anjuna, 7 accused including prime accused Muhammad Sohail Safi and Estevan D’Souza have been named,” sources said. SIT will also recommend amendments to the existing laws, rules or procedures so that such instances can be avoided in the future. The Goa government recently constituted the SIT to investigate land grabbing and illegal land transfer. The seven-member SIT is led by Nidhin Valsan, Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, and…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The locals at the housing board Colony at Curti strongly opposed mobile tower construction in a residential area. The locals said though there are PWD water tanks located in the housing board area, the open lands belong to Housing Board, and therefore the PWD division eighteen should revoke the NOC given by it to one mobile Company. In a memorandum to DYSP Ponda, Deputy Collector Ponda and PWD Executive Engineer, the Locals expressed serious health problems that may cause to locals if a tower is erected. The locals warned to stage agitation if the tower is forcibly…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Days after political turmoil in Congress, the party’s high command has summoned 5 MLAs to Chennai. The five MLAs, Sankalp Amonkar, Yuri Alemao, Rudolfo Fernandes, Altone Dcosta and Carlos Ferreira, flew to Chennai, this morning. Michael Lobo and Digambar Kamat are still in Goa along with Aleixo Sequeira, Kedar Naik, Rajesh Faldesai and Delilah Lobo . As per the sources, this move has been made to keep the flock together, and the MLA is expected to meet party higher-ups. The MLAs will fly back to Goa on Monday to attend the ongoing assembly session and President’s election.…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Parents expressed concern over some of the Old Balarath buses lying in the worst condition and in operation for transportation of students. Speaking on anonymity, one Headmaster said that the Balarath buses were introduced in 2009; however, some of the old fleets are rusted. “The checkered plate is broken. Side metal too rusted and received cracks posing a risk to the lives of students travelling in those buses,” he said. He said Government provides Rs 3.6 lakhs to management for each Balarath bus for salary, maintenance and diesel. However, this money is falling short for maintenance. Padmanabha…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Travelling along the Adpoi-Rasoi ferry has become risky as for the past two days, the Adpoi Ferry ramp has been going underwater due to the rise in the water level of Zuari at the time of high tide Locals at Adpoi said the rise in water level may be due to heavy rain and the release of dam water and the Salaulim dam. Locals said this is the shortcut ferry route towards Vasco via Rasoi, and many people travel towards Ponda and Vasco side through this ferry service. Considering every year flooding of the ferry ramp, the…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – The entire beach/Coastline of the world famous Palolem Beach had gone undersea for a significant part of Saturday morning. The Arabian Sea, almost on the boiled, had swelled too high, and hissing waves were seen engulfing the otherwise golden sands of the cresent-shaped 1.5 Kms long beach shore. A few visitors who visited the beach could not even view the sands nor descend on the shoreline on Saturday morning as the seas had almost covered the entire beach line shore, while at other places, strong waves hitting the Coast border made it visibly unreachable. ‘It was…