AERIAL VIEW First, Rane suspended all the ODPs of Calangute-Candolim, Para-Arpora-Nagoa etc. then, he directed the NGPDA to file an FIR for a land-filling in Parra. Strange, isn’t it? There is no attempt to justify the land-filling by the Lobos but does the action by Rane not smack of desperation by the minister to please his bosses in Delhi and also show one-upmanship over Cheif Minister Dr Pramod Sawant. Almost everybody knew that if the BJP came back to power, the primary target would be Michael Lobo, who had become a thorn in the flesh for the BJP. Lobo left…
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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A Division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice M.S Sonak and Justice R.N. Laddha today fixed for final hearing on June 21st the petition filed by Ribandar based Adv. Aires Rodrigues challenging the constitutional validity of the notification issued on January 7th this year bestowing Lifetime Cabinet status on former Goa Chief Minister Pratapsingh Raoji Rane. Today, the Goa Government told the Court that it would not appoint any staff for Pratapsingh Rane or incur any expenditure on his Lifetime Cabinet status until the matter is adjudicated and finally decided by the High…
Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo and his wife Delilah today have submitted documents to Mapusa Police pertaining to allegedly illegal hill cutting at Parra. The police had issued a summons in the case of filling up the land at Parra. Mapusa police had registered an FIR against both of them for violating TCP Act. In the documents submitted, Lobo said that the said property with survey No.10/9 of Parra village, Bardez is a farm on flat land and the work of preparing a vegetable garden to grow vegetables in the open and under a greenhouse is going…
Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: The Shadow Council for Margao heavily deplored the move of the Council to hand over the Sonsodo land and the Multi-level parking land to the GWMC and GSUDA, respectively. “The Council with these decisions has not done anything good, but only confirmed their inefficiency in performing and executing Civic responsibilities “, charged SCM Convener Savio Coutinho. He cautioned the councillors of the designs of the local MLAs, to whom they(councillors) have pledged their voices. “First, they managed to prove the incapacity of the Councillors, and subsequently, they made them hand over the projects to other government agencies…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has appointed former Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad as the state in charge of the Goa TMC unit with immediate effect “Under the guidance and inspiration of Chairperson Mamata Banerjee, the All India Trinamool Congress is pleased to appoint Kirti Azad (Ex-MP, Lok Sabha) as the State in charge of AITC Goa unit with immediate effect,” said TMC in a press statement. Days after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said that it would restructure its Goa unit, state chief Kiran Kandolkar resigned on Wednesday and blamed political strategist Prashant Kishor for the party’s…
Goemkarponn desk SALIGAO: On the occasion of the annual Palkhi and anniversary of Shri Laxminarayan Devasthan at Saligao Shri Laxminarayan Sangeet Sanskritik Sanstha will organize a sangeet program Swar Ankur on May 5, 5 pm. There will be a program of bhajans by well-known bhajan artists from Goa – Pandurang Raul, Ganesh Parsekar and Pralhad Gavas at 7:30. The program will end at 9:30 pm with Aarti and Tirtha Prasad. The organizers have requested that music lovers be present at the event.
DHIRAJ HARMALKAR/ Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Sub-district hospital Chicalim is in desperate need of a Paediatric doctor, radiologist and a surgeon. Goa First NGO claims that patients have to face the inconvenience of going to GMC since there is a shortage of medical staff at Sub-district hospital Chicalim. The newly upgraded hospital at Chicalim, which was known as the Cottage hospital in the past, has now attained the status of a Sub-district hospital. Crores of exchequers money were spent on the up-gradation of this medical facility a few years ago. Although the infrastructure has been put in place with the medical…