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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With the State recording seventeen more deaths on Saturday, the government has announced slew of measures with the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant also chairing crucial meeting with health officials. Out of the 17 deaths, 10 death’s were at South Goa District Hospital, seven were at GMC, Bambolim. The bulletin said that out of the two patients who have died within 24 hours, both patients were symptomatic for 3 days prior to reporting to the hospital. Meanwhile, the State Goa government has notified the entire premises of Mormugao Port Trust(MPT) Hospital at Headland, Sada as dedicated Covid-19…

Goemkaponn Desk MAPUSA: Tense situation were witnessed outside strong room in Peddem as candidates and polling agents alleged that one unauthorised person entered inside the strong room. The candidates also said that no records were maintained as to who enter the strong rooms and there was complete security lapse. According to candidates, the person who entered the strong room informed that he had forgotten his computer inside the strong however he had now written permission or any other document from the collector which allows him to enter the strong room. “If anything wrong is found CM Pramod Sawant will completely…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Manipal Hospital’s Dr Shekhar Salkar today said that Fire and Emergency Services should immediately conduct fire safety audit of all hospitals treating COVID-19 patients & Covid care centres to avoid. “Fire & Emergency Services should immediately conduct fire safety audit of all Hospitals treating Covid19 patients & Covid care centres to avoid Mumbai like #VirarHospitalfire,” said Dr Salkar 13 people died when a fire broke out Friday morning at a hospital treating Covid-19 patients in Virar in Palghar district of Maharashtra, a state worst affected in the coronavirus pandemic.

Goemkaponn Desk PORVORIM: The Porvorim Police today has arrested Goa Tourist Taxi Operators union leader Bappa Korgaonkar and member Sunil Naik. The police has placed them under arrest under section 144, 143, 147, 447, 504, 323, 427, 379,r/w149ipc. As soon as the news broke out, some of the he taxi operators gathered Outside Porvorim Police station demanding his release. “The government is trying to misuse the machinery and by doing this they want to stop us,” said a taxi operator They further informed that they were ready to install digital meters but only after scrapping Goa Miles taxi service. The…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: In a bid to resume iron ore mining in the region, the government of the western Indian state of Goa has decided to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL) for the purpose of identifying new mineral blocks in the state. The official said that, following identification of new iron ore blocks, these will be put up for auction and successful bidders will be take up mining operations at the assets. This will boost the resumption of iron ore mining in Goa, stalled since 2018 following a Supreme Court order which ruled…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI/ CANACONA – The business which many thought to be as a profitable one, the Covid-19 which struck the world unannounced has broken the backbone of the private bus owners in Goa and today they are staring at a huge mountain of debts to say the least. Normally any transportation business is unpredictable as there are many variable input costs, the spiralling costs of fuel, tires, spare parts, lubricants and insurance amongst others things are driving the private bus owners out of the business since last year most private bus owners complained. As if the Covid-19 pandemic related…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: Starting with as many as eight fresh faces, FC Goa were thrashed 4-0 by Iranian champions Persepolis FC in their return-leg AFC Champions League Group E match here on Friday. Shahriar Moghanlou (24th minute), Mehadi Torabi (43rd), Issa Alkasir (47th) and Kamal Kamyabinia (58th) scored for the winners in a completely one-sided match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Playing three matches in a week prior to this game forced FC coach Juan Ferrando to make wholesale changes to the starting XI, but the move hampered the team’s prospects as it looked clueless at the face of the…