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Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: As expected, with the civic polls coming closer the leader of Opposition and Margao MLA Digamber Kamat joined hands withGoa Forward president Vijay Sardessai. Even during the last elections both had alliance for municipality election under the banner of Model Margao and Fatorda Forward. While addressing media Digamber Kamat said his main motto is to defeat BJP. “People are fed up with BJP government for small issues people are coming on streets. Every second day there are agitations. it looks like there is hitler rule going on in Goa,” he stated. Sardesai said this is a new…

Canacona. Sources at Canacona Community Health Centre informed that till Tuesday, 916 Covid-19 cases were detected since the pandemic infected the world at the end of 2019, and with 13 deaths so far Canacona taluka with about 50 thousand inhabitants, it’s a matter of few weeks when Canacona will have one thousand Covid-19 cases. What is alarming for the residents of Canacona is that a few weeks ago the taluka had a couple of active Covid-19 cases but during last few week the active case load increased manifold. Sources from Community Health Centre at Canacona while divulging the data of…

Goemkarponn Desk Canacona: While whole of India talks about Digital India, we have thousands of Canaconkars who have to travel more than 10km to get a single line on their mobile showing that they are in range of connectivity. We are talking about a village called Khotigao in the jurisdiction of Canacona which has a population of more than three thousand mostly tribal and forest dwellers for whom mobile connectivity has till now remained a distant dream. To make matters worse for them, till a year back they had one mobile service provider which covered the entire village, after the…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Goa today reported 527 new COVID-19 positive cases today. While there 138 recoveries and 2 death reported at GMC. As per DHS health bulletin, the active cases stand at 2858. The samples tested in the last 24 hours is 2638 and the total death tally is 840.

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho has clarified that the new Motor Vehicle (MV) Act would be implemented in the State from May 1, and not from April 16 as was notified in the gazette. Godinho said the intervening period would be utilised by the transport department to carry out awareness programmes across the State before the new MV Act is implemented. “The new MV Act has been notified in the State and steep fines will be enforced. The State government will issue a corrigendum in the gazette stating that the new MV Act will be implemented from May…

Goemkarponn desk NEW DELHI The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday protested outside the BJP headquarters against the Narendra Modi government’s decision to export COVID vaccines. Hundreds of Aam Aadmi Party workers raised slogans against the Narendra Modi government, with the Delhi Police stopping the protesters outside the BJP headquarters. Senior AAP leader and Chief Spokesperson Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj said that the 130 crore population of India ought to have the first right over the vaccine that has been created by scientists of our country. He also said that COVID cases are on the rise and people are dying, but the…

Margao – Late Tukaram Kashinath Fondekar selflessly contributed to music; especially to Sangeet Natak with his mastered art of playing harmonium. Government of Goa through Art & Culture Department must commemorate his birth centenary year by organising events & instituting an award or scholarship in his name said Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat. I urge Art & Culture Minister Govind Gaude to prepare a Directory of all such artists of Goa which will help next generations to know of their contributions Digambar Kamat said. On the occasion of the 99th birth anniversary of the acclaimed artist today, Digambar Kamat said…