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Goemkarponn Desk VASCO: With the monsoon season approaching, the city of Vasco has commenced extensive pre-monsoon preparation activities. Efforts are being made to ensure that the city is well-prepared to handle the heavy rains and potential flooding that are characteristic of the monsoon period. City ward councillor Shami Salkar highlighted that measures are being taken to address dangerous trees, which pose a significant risk during storms. “We have started cutting down hazardous trees. For this purpose, we have procured a crane from GSL,” Salkar stated. Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar emphasized the importance of timely intervention. “The pre-monsoon works have been…

Goemkarponn Desk MAPUSA: An unidentified person’s lifeless body was discovered floating in a well close to the Ganpati Temple in Khorlim, Mapusa, in a terrible occurrence. When Mapusa Fire and Emergency Services arrived on the scene, they got right to work looking into the situation. The Mapusa fire and emergency services team received a distress call on Friday morning from villagers reporting that the body of an unidentified person had been discovered floating in a well close to Ganpati Temple in Khorlim, Mapusa. As soon as Mapusa police and firefighters arrived at the scene, a rescue operation to remove the…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: The sudden onset of pre-monsoon thunderous rains created having in Canacona with a number uprooting of different type of trees including a huge Banyan on Thursday evening in Canacona. Canacona fire services are on their toes till going to the press attending as many as 8 calls of trees falling including coconut trees falling incidents on houses and tourism huts, at Palolem, Patnem, besides Shristhal, Polem, Loliem and Chaudi. Followed by fiercely blowing winds and thunders, rains lashed many parts of Canacona for more than half-an-hour throwing normal life out of gear, and surprising motorists especially two…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: Canacona Municipal Council Chairperson Ramakant Naikgaunkar has resigned from the post to make way for the next Councilors to occupy the august Chair, the third-one during the current term, so far. Naikgaunkar submitted his resignation on Wednesday, as agreed amongst the seven ruling group councilors of Canacona Municipal Council. Sara Shamba Naik Dessai is the next councilor tipped to occupy the coveted post of CMC Chairperson for the remaining period of the current term. Soon after the municipal election in 2021, Seven of the newly elected Councillors came together in a virtual revolt against the than Canacona…

LUCKNOW: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday dubbed as “absurd and unfortunate” AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “retirement” and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s “removal”. Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal on Thursday repeated his claim that PM Modi will retire from politics once he attains 75 years of age in 2025, in accordance with the saffron party’s rules, and added that the prime minister is seeking votes for Union Home Minister Amit Shah as his successor. He also claimed that the BJP would remove Adityanath as Uttar Pradesh chief minister within two months if it…

NEW DELHI: Nearly one-third of the individuals who received Bharat Biotech’s anti-Covid vaccine Covaxin reported ‘adverse events of special interest,’ or AESI, according to a one-year follow up study conducted by a team of researchers at BHU. Nearly 50 per cent of 926 study participants in the study complained of infections during the follow-up period, predominated by viral upper respiratory tract infections. Serious AESI, which included stroke and Guillain-Barre syndrome, were reported in one per cent of individuals, the study, which looked at long-term safety of the BBV152 vaccine in adolescents and adults, claimed. Published in the journal Springer Nature,…

Goemkarponn Desk DELHI: In a report to the Supreme Court, the Goa Foundation (GF) stated that the Goa Tamnar Transmission Project Ltd (GTPPL)’s afforestation efforts to make up for the 2,670 trees it cut down in 2020 at Sangod village in Mollem have nearly failed. Recall that Tamnar obtained a licence under the Goa Preservation of Trees Act to fell trees in order to accommodate its electrical substation at Sangod in connection with the Tamnar 400 kV high tension line from Dharwad to Xeldem, despite the fact that the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 required prior clearance. It will be recalled…