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District Magistrate and Zilla Panchayat Election Officer, South Goa District, Shri Ajit Roy, IAS, has order that on the day of Poll, viz. from 06.00 am to 9.00 pm of December 12, 2020 in all 23 Zilla Panchayat Constituencies under the jurisdiction of South Goa Zilla Panchayat Election Office, all Hotels, Restaurants, Bars, Tea Shops, Pan Shops and other food shops (Dhabas, Gaddas) etc. within the vicinity of 200 mtrs of any polling station will remain closed to avoid their misuse for carrying campaigning or intimidation of voters or influencing voters and to prevent any gathering of crowd and any…

PANJIM: Goa today recorded 101 new Covid19 positive cases. While there were 132 recoveries and two deaths. As per DHS bulletin, a 50 year old patient from Miramar with CKD+DM+HTN +COPD+PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY +PVD and 68 year old patient from Ponda with DM+COPD+AKI succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile, the active cases stand at 1277, the total deaths are 703, samples tested today are 1610 while the recovery rate is 95.96 percent.

PANJIM: Goencho Awaaz today has said that the Pramod Sawant led government has failed to inspire confidence in its sincerity, intention or capability to protect the interests of Goa and Goans against the anti people and environmentally destructive plans of the Central Government. Today, 60 years after Goa’s “liberation”, as the State swiftly slides into a swamp of mismanagement on every front, that has left it tottering under a debt burden of Rs.25,000 crores, largely accumulated for past celebrations, alleged corruption and acute fiscal profligacy, the CM now seeks to further undermine the respect of Goans and turn them into…

Panaji: The State Election Commission has issued Guidelines for the conduct of Zilla Panchayt Election 2020 in wake of COVID19 pandemic. As per the general instructions about Preventive measures to be taken at the Polling stations all voters are to be thermally screened for temperature at the entry of the polling station. “Norms of social distancing by marking circles at 2 metre distance for the voters to stand in a queue outside the polling station and, allowing entry of limited number of voters in the marked circles near the entrance of the polling station shall be strictly followed,” the guidelines…

Aishwarya Livy Fernandes who is contesting from Colva was confident of her victory as people are fed up of the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party which she said are one and the same. “When I was canvassing in March before the lockdown all the people expressed their total disgust with the BJP and how they wanted a change,” she said. She said though Colva may be of touristic importance the constituency is quite underdeveloped with people not even having the basic need like public transport and pointed out how people from Betalbatim suffer due to this. Besides she lamented that…

Sinquerim: Alert Drishti lifesavers on Tuesday evening averted the suicide of a 25 year old boy at Sinquerim. On 8th December, 2020 at 18.00 hours at Sinquerim beach a Drishti lifesaver Gaurish noticed a male entering into the waters and heading straight into the sea. Soon after the male seemed in distress. Lifesaver Gaurish called for backup and rushed into the waters. Lifesavers Nakul and Yeshwant jumped onto a jet-ski and followed to assist with the rescue. Lifesaver Gaurish on reaching the victim held onto him to keep him afloat. However the male got aggressive. When lifesavers Nakul and Yeshwant…

PANAJI: Alleging the State government and State Election Commission have failed to uphold the essence of the election process, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee has said that people of Goa will defeat the ‘money power’ of BJP and will send them strong signal of wrath, this Zilla Panchayat election. The GPCC president Girish Chodankar on Wednesday addressed a press conference along with GPCC Vice President, also incharge of Election Commission Altinho Gomes and District Vice President Adv. Yemen D’Souza, and lambasted the BJP for using the government machinery to win the ZP elections. EC has also failed to uphold its…