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Town and Country Planning(TCP) department has notified 47 applications for zone change under 16B of the TCP Act today. Stakeholders have been given two months’ time to voice objections if any. The Zone change applicants include Senior political leaders Pratapsingh R. Rane (11,465 sq mtr land at Podocem, Sattari) and Anil Hoble ( 5,708 sq mtr land (2 applications) at Morombi-o-Grande, Tiswadi) as well as Sanatan Santha seeking conversion of 9,691 sq mtr land from Settlement/ Natural Cover with NDS zone to Institutional Zone. Incidentally, total 22 of the 47 applications are of one Ashwin Kamath, for conversions of paddy…

One died in accidental gun shot after hunting expedition went terribly wrong in Quepem. A gun trap was laid in the forest to kill wild animals at Maina, Quepem. One 35 year old Vasu Gaonkar accidently stamped on the trap thereby triggering gun shot which pierced his leg. He was shifted to hospital where he was declared dead due to loss of blood. One person has been detained in this connection.

Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai on Thursday urged Goemkars to defeat the BJP candidates in the Zilla Panchayat Polls, which will be held on December 12th. Sardesai said that “it is high time that the BJP is defeated in the state to #SaveGoaNow for posterity. The Dr. Pramod Sawant government has cheated Goemkars on the issue of coal transportation, double-tracking and Mhadei.” Sardesai further said that though the opposition is united in the fight against coal, double tracking and the Mhadei issue, opposition parties should have come together and given an alternative to the voters for the Zilla Panchayat…

PANJIM: Goa today reported 95 new Covid-19 positive cases today. While there 159 recoveries and zero deaths reported today. As per DHS bulletin, Goa reported zero deaths in the last 24 hours. The active cases stand at 1213, samples tested today are 1502, total deaths are 703 while the recovery rate is 96.10 percent.

PANJIM: The State governemnt today has appointed Ravi Dhawan IAS as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Ltd thereby relieving Hemant Kumar IAS of additional charge. The Goa state government has reconstituted the board for Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL). It is the Special Public Vehicle for Panaji smart city development project. Parimal Rai, Chief Secretary, has been appointed as the Chairman and Swayandipta Pal Chaudhuri is the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IPSCDL. The board constitutes of eight directors, namely, WVR Murthy, Secretary (Urban Development); Daulat Hawaldar,…

“The media has an important role in dealing with anti-India forces. It is the responsibility of all of us, including the media persons, to ensure that our media is not misused by the anti-India forces against our own country.” said Minister of State for DefenceShripadNaik at the valedictory function of media communication course organized by the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) for defence personnel on Thursday. On this occasion, the Director-General of IIMC Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi, Additional Director General (Administration) Shri K. Satish Namboodiripad and Additional Director General (Training) Smt. Mamta Varma were also present. Speaking as the chief…

PANAJI: Showing the letter of Department of Mines and Geology, which clearly clarified that Rs. 35000 mining scam never happened in Goa, the President of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Girish Chodankar on Thursday dared BJP’s Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant and BJP President Sadanand Shet Tanavade to make public so-called report of Public Accounts Committee, which maligned the name of former chief minister Digambar Kamat and Congress party. “Not only Congress party suffered due to this report-which maligned us, but more than three lakh mining dependents have suffered since last nine years after then chief minister Manohar Parrikar took steps…