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Panaji – Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant is frustrated with the imminent defeat of Chairperson Yeshwant Madkar in the Sankhali Municipal Council in the No Confidence Motion moved by the Opposition Councillors has now stooped to a new low by serving a fresh notice to Councillor Raya Parsekar and asking him to appear for hearing at 12.30 pm at Vasco charged GPCC President Girish Chodankar. After the High Court of Bombay at Goa gave relief to Councillor Rajesh Sawal and allowed him to vote on no confidence motion which is fixed on Friday 16th April at 2.30 pm, the Chief…

DELHI: In view of a fresh wave of Covid-19 cases across India, the Central Government on Thursday decided to postpone the NEET-PG medical entrance exams. The National Board of Examinations (NBE) was scheduled to conduct the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Postgraduate on 18 April. The next date of the NEET-PG medical entrance exams, which will decide the fate of an estimated 1.7 lakh medical aspirants, will be decided later, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said today. Taking to Twitter, Dr Vardhan wrote, “In light of the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Government of India has decided to…

DELHI: The Editors Guild of India on Thursday urged the Union government to declare journalists as frontline workers and ensure priority vaccination for them amid a rise in coronavirus cases. “News media is included in essential services. Therefore, it will only be fair that journalists be given this cover of protection, especially in the face of the number of infected rising to astronomical levels,” the statement said. In a statement, the Guild said news organisations have been relentlessly covering the pandemic, elections, and other current affairs in an effort to ensure that the flow of news and information to readers…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI:NSUI Goa demands exams of 10th std and 12th std to be conducted online or to be postponed since active cases in Goa has crossed 5000 mark after registering 757 new Covid-19 cases , also 2 lakh new cases has been seen throughout the country in last 24 hours . It is very unfortunate that instead of putting Covid management into place Chief Minister wants to conduct 10th and 12th board exams, in Goa patients are struggling to get admitted, beds are full, patients are sleeping on the floor in GMC. In this situation CM should first focus…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI:The number of coronavirus cases in Goa today crossed the 700 mark after 5 months. While there 182 recoveries and 5 death were reported today. As per DHS health bulletin, Two patients were brought dead to Hospicio and the patient who expired at GMC within 6 hours was symptomatic since 15 days with complaints of cough only and breathlessness started 2 days prior. The patient was brought in a critical state.And expired within 6 hours despite optimum treatment. The active cases now at 5682 active cases and the total deaths 862. The samples tested today is 2711.

Goemkarponn desk AGONDA The recently started Tika Utsav is getting huge success in Canacona and denizens are all in praise for the local MLA and health care staff for making all efforts in that direction. The Tika Utsav got underway in Canacona on last Saturday, a day earlier than it was started at a national level. The Tika Utsav was a huge success in Loliem with 306 persons above the age of 45 taking the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Next day which was a Sunday, inspite of the annual power shutdown the Tika Utsav registered 300 persons above 45…

Gaurang Prabhu MARGAO: The coming municipality election is litmus test for former BJP MLA Damodar Naik, Goa Forward chief Vijai Sardesai, Congress’ Fatorda block and Margao BJP Mandal. The results could easily be termed as the curtain raiser for the Assembly elections to be held next year. Damu Naik has lost two consecutive assembly elections and his complete panel has lost in municipality in 2015. For Damu, this is the last chance to prove his worthiness in Fatorda politics. On the other hand Vijai Sardesai has continuously won t assembly and his panel won in 2015 in all 11 wards…