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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A Division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising of Justice M.S Sonak and Justice R.N. Laddha today admitted the petition filed by 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. The Court will, on May 2nd, hear the plea for interim relief made by Adv. Rodrigues seeking a stay of that notification. The petitioner has drawn the High Court’s attention to how the Goa cabinet hurriedly resolved on January 6th this year to confer…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Congress’s efforts to rejuvenate and strengthen the Party at the grassroots level with “CHETANA YATRA” have instead widened the differences within the rank and file of grassroots workers in Canacona. Congress candidate (Assembly-2022 Elections) and GPCC General Secretary and firebrand Janardhan Bhandari walked off from the meeting of Chethana Yatra, later on, addressed by GPCC President Amit Patkar and Working President Yuri Alemao, at GM Celebration conference hall, Shrishthal in Canacona on Saturday. Bhandari, reportedly got upset on seeing the presence of Mahadev Dessai, a former GPCC Secretary, who had revolted against the Party and contested on…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – A large number of devotees pulled on a a large 45-feet Wooden Pole (Betal Ratacho Khambo) to prepare for its Triannial (once in three years) Ghodeanchi Zatra at Shri Betal Temple Poinguinim. Actually, a contingent of over a thousand people pulled the Wooden Pole (decorated and garlanded with flowers) cut from a forest in Shellim (Loliem-Polem village) along the NH-66 road via Poinguinim Bazaar, amidst spiritual chants, before fixing it at the Shri Betal temple premises as preparation for Triannial Ghodeanchi Zatra to be held on 21st May. President of Shri Betal Devalaya Samiti Udhay Prabhugaongkar…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: With the panchayat elections just a month away, the issue of illegal hill cutting and development of plots has become the burning issue in the Xeldem and Assolda panchayat areas. When contacted Xeldem Panchayat Sarpanch Caitan Lima about the issue, he said that the complaint about illegal hill cutting and levelling was made by former Sarpanch and current Panch member Pramod Desai. “The site where illegal hill cutting took place belongs to the Xeldem panchayat, but a new road was built near the hill cutting area, which belongs to Chandreshwar Bhootnath devastation, so both the property belongs…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Velsao-Pale-Issorcim panchayat, in its ordinary gram sabha meeting on Sunday, took a resolution barring any local person from subletting his movable handcart to migrants. Gram sabha members also opposed the Cyclone (siren) alert tower on the Velsao beach. On Sunday, during the ordinary gram sabha meeting, locals from Velsao-Pale-Issorcim strongly opposed the Cyclone (siren) alert tower on the Velsao beach. Fishermen claimed that there is no need for such a tower at the beach area, and they get intimation about any cyclonic conditions at sea from television news etc. This opposition came out of the ambiguity about…

Goemkapronn desk CANACONA – After lots of dilly-dallying, Government has already taken up hot-mixing and repairs of the nearly dilapidated NH-66 road from Gulem (Canacona) to Cuncolim (Salcette) via Balli (Quepem) on Sunday. The repairs and hot-mix carpet (Strengthening of Riding surface between Km 561/890 to 584/000) will be laid to approximately 23 Kms from Gulem towards Margao at an approximate cost Rs.27.71 Cr. The bad road was widely criticised, and congress leadership has even taken the agitation at offices and cabins of top PWD officers. The hot-mix machine was inaugurated on Sunday morning at the hands of Speaker and…

AERIAL VIEW In Mumbai, Sawant said that he would recommend that the Centre ban the controversial outfit Progressive Front of Goa. He said that Goa would not allow any kind of religious conversions. Well, the statement has come as a surprise, as for the past three years, he was chief minister and did nothing to stop or investigate if such a thing exists in Goa. Of course, there have been some wild conversions allegations, but he did nothing to prove them right or wrong. Being a chief minister of the State, it does not suit him to make such wild…