MARGAO: The defective BJP Government headed by Dr. Pramod Sawant has fear of skeletons of corruption tumbling out and hence is afraid of releasing White Paper on Covid Pandemic and Financial Status of Goa charged GPCC president Girish Chodankar today. He said the BJP is not ready to face the people with actual facts and figures, as the same will expose the loot of public money by the BJP in last eight years. The BJP State president Sadanand Tanawade should tell the people what solutions BJP National President J P Nadda has given during his virtual meeting with the local…
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Goa Lokayukta Justice P.K. Misra today reserved his final order after hearing an hour long acrimonious arguments in the disproportionate assets case filed by Adv. Aires Rodrigues against former Power Minister and current Cumbarjua MLA Pandurang Madkaikar. After holding a preliminary inquiry into the complaint filed by Adv. Aires Rodrigues, the Lokayukta in his order on 17th September last year held that reasonable grounds exist for conducting a detailed investigation while also observing that after going through all the material on record it cannot be said that the complaint filed by Adv. Rodrigues is frivolous or vexatious. The Lokayukta also directed that the Law Secretary be…
Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Friday appealed to all those Covid19 patients who have been cured 28days ago, to step forward and help us tackle the virus by donating your plasma. He also said that in collaboration with 108 team, we will make arrangements for you to reach GMC. “We will be encouraging the recovered COVID-19 patients to come forward and donate their plasma. It will save lives of other people,” he said”
PORVORIM: With one day Goa Assembly session on Monday, Porvorim Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte on Friday has written to Speaker Rajesh Patnekar urging him to highlight only the most urgent issues. The MLA also says that this session should not be an excuse for the government to shirk responsibility on the hardships being faced by the people of Goa. “As strongly put forward by my colleagues in the Business Advisory Committee Meeting is seconded by me, in view of the Assembly Session being curtailed to one day, we need to understand that only key issues of the State need to…
The Lockdown from March 25 announced across the country including Goa seems to have had a significant impact on the environment of the State. As per the Report on Impact of Lockdown due to COVID19 pandemic on Ambient Air quality of Goa, by the Goa State Pollution Control Board, the air pollution has decreased considerably. “The ambient Air Quality during the lockdown has shown significant improvement in the State of Goa as is indicated by the data from the NAMP stations which may be attributed to very low vehicular density and industrial activities prevailing during lockdown period,” says the report…
The youth as well as the old in the small village of Melauli, in Sattari taluka are up in arms over the government decision to hand over 10 lakh square meter of government land to the IIT Goa. The villagers are upset that for decades they have been demanding from successive governments to transfer the land in their names as they have been the custodians for decades since the erstwhile Portuguese regime. The villagers feel that the government has failed the citizens overlooking their livelihood for bigger institutions. Not only they question, why an institution like IIT requires 10,00,000 to…
Following the guidelines issued by the Centre, the State government has issued the Standard Operating Procedure for asymptomatic patients willing to undergo home quarantine instead of the government COVID Care Centre. The DHS order states that the SOPs have been issued based on guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare dated 02/07/2020. * As per the SOP asymptomatic person desiring to be under home isolation will make a request to the Collector/Dy.Collector concerned to permit him/her to be in home isolation through email on the official email ID. * The undertaking on self isolation as per the annexure…