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PANAJI: The Goa government has moved Supreme Court with a Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging High Court order to stall elections in five Municipalities, which were scheduled for March 20. The Government in its SLP has pleaded for a stay on High Court order. The High court had on Monday set aside the notification on reservation of Municipal wards in five Municipalities- Margao, Sanguem, Quepem, Mormugao and Mapusa. It had directed the State election commission to initiate fresh election process and same to be completed by April 15. Following High Court order, the State Election Commission has kept in abyeance…

Goemkarponn Desk Panaji:Commenting on the High Court’s verdict on the municipal election reservation, Goa Forward Party President Vijai Sardesai said “the Pramod Sawant led government has violated the Indian Constitution by making an independent State Election Commission(SEC) completely dependent on the government’s whims and fancies”. Sardesai claimed that the government’s attempts to make the SEC its puppet was so brazen that it started off with the resignation of Mr. R K Srivastava, the state commissioner who resigned on 4th November 2020. Couple of days later, the Law Secretary Chokha Ram Garg IAS was appointed as commissioner, which was nothing more…

Goemkarponn Desk St Jacinto Island residents have expressed grave concerns over their houses and church on tbe Island missing from the CZMP Plans . Angry residents later arrived at Chicalim Panchayat to meet the sarpanch Sebastian Pereira who informed them that a fresh plan would be sent to authorities with request to include the houses in the CZMP and to remove St Jacinto Island from the port limits. A resident said that chicalim was the first panchayat to send the peoples draft on CZMP with every thing properly marked but the residebts were shocked when their houses, land and church…

Panaji: BJP Panaji MLA Babush Monserratte is facing hit within the party for the CCP elections. Divide within BJP was quite evident today during the nomination filing. While on one side Monserratte backed panel’s 30 candidates filed their nominations, on the other hand, BJP loyalists including Dattaprasad Naik and Sidharth Kuncolienkar extended support to independent candidates. Former CM late Manohar Parrikar’s son Utapl has also decided to campaign for strong candidates against Monserratte. Monserratte has been uncrowned king of CCP over the years now. However, this time, its not just opposition within BJP, but also some prominent citizens have come…

Panjim, March 2, 2021: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Goa State Government today announced a partnership to provide online courses for the state’s students, job seekers and entrepreneurs that will enhance their technical and professional skills. IBM will work with the Director of Technical Education, Goa and implementation partner REACHA (Research and Extension Association for Conservation Horticulture and Agro-forestry) to foster the skills development of learners, especially village level entrepreneurs and other government stakeholders by providing industry relevant course content through the IBM SkillsBuild program. The collaboration aims to upskill up to 10,000 learners across 10 institutions over a period of one year. “”The…

Goemkarponn desk Margao: All seven accused arrested in Anwar Sheikh assault case have been sent to judicial custody. Fatorda police today produced all seven accused before JMFC Margao. While two accused are Vicky Hornekar, Vipul Pathari were sent to 10 days custody while Imran Bepari (32) r/o Santacruz, Vijay Karbotkar, Harshvadhan Saval (37), Sudhan Dcosta (40) r/o Seraulim, Mahinder @ Mayur Tanawade (37) r/o Porvorim sent for 4 days police custody. Two main accused that is Vally da Costa and Amir Gavandi are still absconding and Fatorda police have issued lookout notice for both. The argument for bail was kept…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Goa today reported 47 new positive COVID-19 cases. While there were 48 recoveries and zero deaths today. As per DHS bulletin, the active cases stand at 582. The total samples tested in the 24 hours is 1554. the total death toll is 796 while the recovery rate 97.50 percent.