PORVORIM: Continuing his tirade against friend-turned foe, Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo, Porvorim IND MLA Rohan khaunte on Tuesday said that neither was he invited nor was aware about the meeting called by the former to discuss Covid 19 preparedness in Bardez taluka. Lobo on Monday chaired a meeting to discuss various measures that needs to be adopted to avoid further spread of virus in Bardez, which is so far least affected by Covid. Siolim MLA Vinod Palyekar and Mapusa MLA Joshua D’souza attended the meeting. “I was not aware about this meeting being called and also was not called…
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Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte on Tuesday said that Speaker Rajesh Patnekar could possibly hold the assembly session virtually or through an online mode, if he was afraid of the rising cases of Covid 19 in the State. “This session was very important for me and I was waiting for the assembly session since a long time. If the speaker was afraid of the rising cases in Goa, he could possibly take the session through online mode.” said Khaunte Khaunte said that there were many important issues that were needed to be discussed on priority basis. Also the budget needed to…
Stepping up it’s attack on the Govt well as opposition of the issue of 1-day monsoon session of Assembly, AAP called on the people of Goa to gather at the assembly gate on July 27th at 9.00 am, and stop the 40 MLAs from making a mockery of democracy by having a one-day mock session. Speaking at the gate of legislative complex in Porvorim, AAP leaders Pradeep Padgaonkar, Sunil Signapurkar, and Valmiki Naik chided the MLAs, reminding them that one-day sessions in the Assembly are held only by law students of colleges in Goa, not by law makers, and even…
MAPUSA: The entire Mapusa city was in fear and anxiety as a newspaper vendor tested positive for COVID19. Mapusa MLA Joshua D’Souza said that swab testing drive initiated by Mapusa UHC is currently underway at Health Centre Khorlim, for all those people who have come in contact with the newspaper vendor and also for those staying in the surrounding vicinity. “Visited the area around KrishnaTemple, Khorlim along with Local Councillors Vibha Salgaonkar & Rajsingh Rane, Dy. Collector Kum Mamu Hage, #Mapusa PI Shri Tushar Lotlikar and #Police personnel where a NewspaperVendor residing in the locality has been tested positive for…
Department of Women and Child Development (WCD) has said that the government has initiated process to weed out ineligible beneficiaries of its ambitious Griha Aadhar scheme and the same is nearing completion Director WCD Deepali Naik said in a reply to a complaint filed by activist Kashinath Shetye. Shetye in his complaint had sought stopping of payments to persons fraudulently registered under the scheme. Replying to same, Naik said ” necessary action would be undertaken towards the illegalities identified as per the scheme guidelines”.
The Dnyanpeeth Awardee Ravindra Kelekar Konkani Bhasha Puraskar for the year 2018-19 has been declared to Adv. Uday Laxmikant Bhembre, B. D. Satoskar Marathi Bhasha Puraskar has been declared to Shri Pundalik Shivram Narvekar, while Durgaram Upadhe Sanskrit Puraskar has been declared to Shri Devadatta Govind Patil. The Award consists of Manapatra, Memento and cash amount of Rs. 1.00 lakh each. The award will be presented to the awardees in a special function. Nominations were invited earlier from individuals as well as institutions. A Committee of Experts was constituted by the Government to select the awardees. The committee consisted of Dr. Somnath Komarpanth, Shri.…
The Goa Raj Bhavan has written to the North Goa Collector seeking action on the complaint filed by Adv. Aires Rodrigues demanding an F.I.R against Raymond Filipe Fernandes, son of Goa’s Deputy Speaker Isidore Fernandes for having submitted a fake BA degree while applying for the post of Awal Karkun at the North Goa Collectorate. Adv. Rodrigues had last week met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan and submitted a memorandum seeking his intervention to ensure the criminal prosecution of Raymond Fernandes in the fake degree case. Raymond Fernandes was amongst the16 selected in January this year for…