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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Power Minister Nilesh Cabral infomred that the state governemnt has further extended the OTS scheme for defaulting power consumers till Feb 28. He said that nearly Rs 240 crore recovery is still pending from 1.06 lakh consumers. “State governemnt has further extended the OTS scheme for defaulting power consumers till Feb 28, so far Rs 170 crore recovered; scheme extended with benefits of only two installments,”said Cabral “Under the scheme, if the consumer pays the entire principal amount, then he or she will get 100% waiver in delay payment charges. If the consumer wants to pay the…

Goemkarponn Desk FATORDA: Goa Forward Party (GFP) President Vijai Sardesai today said that his party will be moving a breach of privilege against the WRD Minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues for providing false reply to our questions in the assembly. “We will be moving breach of Privilege against the WRD minister for providing false reply in the house on Mhadei, the minister not only said it orally but also placed it on record in the house,” said Sardesai He further said that it is now clear that government of Goa did not oppose the Mhadei Tribunal Award Notification because the lawyer…

BICHOLIM: The Forest and Revenue department of Maharashtra on Thursday issued a notification granting heritage site status to the Myristica swamp forest in Melavli which has brought to the notice remains of primeval forest. According to the information provided by the environmentalist, Rajendra Kerkar the Myristica swamps are tropical fresh water swamp forests with an abundance of Myristica trees, the most primitive of the flowering plants on earth. The evergreen, water-tolerant trees have dense stilt roots helping them stay erect in the thick, black, wet alluvial soil. As per the information available on Wikipedia Myristica swamps are found in the Karnataka and in the southern parts of Kerala. A wildlifer,…

Margao – Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat on Monday said that the revealations made by Former Senior Counsel Adv. Arvind Datar that he did not object to notification of Mhadei Award before Supreme Court on clear instructions of Government of Goa headed by Dr. Pramod Sawant has once again exposed the betrayal by BJP Government of Mother Mhadei. Kamat demanded that owning the responsibility the Chief Minister must step down. “The BJP Government must answer Who, Why & What stopped them from giving clear instructions to the Legal Counsel to object to the notification of Mhadei Tribunal Award before the…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: The Opposition parties have cone down heavily on Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant demanding his resignation after Adv Datar revealed he did not oppose notification of Mhade award only after instructions from Goa government. Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte tweeted, “#Mhadei Notification: Adv.Datar claims he acted on GoaGovt instructions while GoaGovt said in Assembly that Advocate acted on his own volition.” He further said, CM has destroyed credibility of the Assembly by giving false answer! “Who’s playing Judas, @DrPramodPSawant or WRD Minister?” he asked. Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat said that former Senior Counsel Adv. Arvind Datar reveals…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant on Sunday clarified that No instructions were given by anybody from the Government to not oppose notification of Mhadei award. Following allegations by Opposition, Sawant took to social media to clarify the issue. “No instructions were given by anybody from the Government to not oppose Notification of Mahadai award,” he said. The CM said that Government instructions are always in writing. “We had immediately changed the lawyer and Mukul Rohatgi ex Attorney General appeard for us. Now ex ASG Narsinha appears for us,” he said. Sawant added that this fact is already…

Goenkarponn desk Vasco: A 37 yrs old lady Sunita Jayesh Naik committed suicide on Sunday morning by hanging herself at her residence at Shindoli, Sancoale. Verna police after conducting panchnama have preserved her body at district hospital Margao. Sunita was married around 14 yrs back and she is a mother of 2 children. Under the supervision of PSI Sanket Talkar Verna police is investigating the reason for suicide