Goemkarponn Desk Canacona: With just two days left to file nominations for the upcoming municipal elections, the returning officer for CMC elections have till Tuesday have received 15 nomination forms from prospective candidates. While two candidates each had submitted their nomination forms on 26th February and 1st March respectively, Tuesday saw as many as eleven candidates submitting their nomination forms to the returning officers office till 1.00pm. Hemantkumar Naikgaonkar who is the outgoing councilor of this ward filed his nomination on Tuesday. While ward number two has received two nominations on Tuesday one is of Ramakant Naikgaonkar and the second…
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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Steps are being taken to introduce urban water transport systems in key states and cities such as Goa, Kochi, Mumbai and Gujarat said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while inaugurating the virtual Maritime India Summit 2021. “ Ours is a Government that is investing in waterways in a way that was never seen before. Domestic waterways are found to be cost effective and environment friendly ways of transporting freight. We aim to operationalise 23 waterways by 2030,” he said. India will invest $82 billion in port projects by 2035, raise share of clean renewable energy source in maritime…
Goemkarponn Desk PORVORIM: Porvorim Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte has said that the state governemnt should conduct salinity tests in River Mandovi through independent agency. Khaunte also urged the state government to submit a detailed report to the centre to counter the diversion issue of Mhadei waters by Karnataka. “The state governemnt should conduct salinity tests in River Mandovi through independent agency. The CM Sawant’s purposeful Silence & Inaction exhibits a biased attitude favoring Karnataka’s violations,” said Khaunte
Goemkarponn Desk DABOLIM:Aiports Authority of India (AAI) has said that 3,400 flights took off from Goa International Airport in December 2020. “Goa is all about the Sun, sand & surfing and due to this many tourists are preferring Goa as their travel destination. Hence Goa Airport aircraft movement is showing a steady rise. In Dec’20, 3.4K flights took off from this airport, while last month, the nos. jumped over 4K,” AAI said The trajectory of domestic flight operations in India is on the path to reach pre-Covid levels. The government of India said that the total number of domestic passengers…
Goemkarponn Desk PORVORIM:The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHE) today has introduced a new revised syllabus in Health Care Science for Class XII to be implemented from the Academic Year 2021-2022 onwards. GBSHE has also informed that the head of the institution that they shall download the same from the official website of this Board for further necessary action. As per the circular, the subject Fundamental of Nursing has been changed to Public Health & Education. Similarly Community Health Nursing to Concept of Health and Disease, Maternity and Child Health to First aid and emergency care and…
Goemkarponn Desk Panaji: Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate for the bye elections in Navelim Zilla Panchayat constituency Matilda D’Silva and AAP Women’s Wing member Uma Volvoikar today came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party government for making life difficult for the common man and specially women due to the spiraling of prices of everything. She lamented that while in 2012 the then chief minister late Manohar Parrikar had levied 0 VAT on petrol and diesel and made fuel cheapest in Goa. “So much so that people from neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka used to come to Goa to fill…
Goemkarponn desk Vasco: Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral on Tuesday said there was confusion with regards the port limits and he himself has asked for clarification on the issue. Speaking to reporters in Vasco on Draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP), Cabral said that he has no clue about the port limits. “I have no role to play in the MPT limit marking and I understand that the port limit was marked somewhere in 1970, when I was not even born,” he said. Cabral said that there was a confusion over port limits and it was not clear whether the port limits shown on CZMP was MPT or Goa Port and that…