Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Goa in-charge and Opposition Leader of the Maharashtra Legislative Party Shri Devendra Fadnavis has expressed confidence that the party will retain power Goa by winning absolute majority in the ensuing 2022 assembly polls. Fadnavis, who concluded his two-day visit to Goa on Tuesday, remembered then Chief Minister late Shri Manohar Parrikar stating the party is consistently working to preserve Parrikar’sParrikar’s legacy. “”BJP is working to preserve the legacy of Manohar Parrikar. The government, under the leadership of the present Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant, is working well. BJP will get a huge…
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Goemkarponn desk SANGUEM: Not a month has passed since Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant warned that encroachment on the land of Sociedad would not be tolerated. While crores of rupees are being traded on government land, people express surprise that the administration is pretending to be asleep. Recently, Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant had visited the Sange area. Within a month of their visit, it has come to light that thousands of square meters of land at Kashti had been demolished for laterite mines. While discussing with the villagers, they informed that the hill cutting is going on laterite mines…
GAURANG PRABHU/ Goemkarponn MARGAO: There is a lot of hill-cutting in the state and there is a demand from the people that the law should be appropriately enforced to curb it. At present, in many places, the ongoing hill-cutting has been stopped due to strong protests by the people, while in some areas, it has been seen that illegal logging has been carried out by the people in violation of the law. Section 17 (a) of the Town Planning Act is a law capable of taking action against those who commit such acts, but people are not afraid of taking…
Goemkarponn Desk CALANGUTE: Goa Police have finally been given the custody of accused Azeez Asif who was involved in various chain snatching incidents across Bardez taluka. Last week, Bangalore police was down in Goa with the accused as a part of recovery for cases registered in Karnataka. The accussed identified as Azeez Asif is a resident of D J Halli Bangalore. Police have recovered motorcycle and ornaments. A few days ago Asif on a Honda Dio scooter, wearing a black colour jacket and helmet snatched the gold chain of the complainant weighing 10 grams worth Rs 50,000 from the victim…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant distributed sanction orders to the beneficiaries under the Ex-gratia relief to the families of Covid -19 victims Sand also under Covid-19 relief fund for the beneficiaries of marginalized Sector, yesterday. The Chief Minister in his address said that his Government is of the common man and committed for welfare of common man. Covid pandemic has badly affected the socio economic life of the people in the State. Many families have lost their family member, on the other hand traditional businessmen suffered due to lack of business, he said and added that the…
Goemkarponn Desk MAPUSA: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane took the management of Asilo Hospital to task after he noticed that parents who had got their children at the hospital for Immunization, had to wait in long queue, extended till main road, in absence of proper shed. “Parents who had got their children at the hospital for Immunization, had to wait in long queue, extended till main road, in absence of proper shed,” said Rane. He further said that he was shocked to see the queue with mother’s standing with their little kids, in hot sun. Rane today morning made a suprise…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The All Goa Private Bus Owners Association (AGPBOA) today staged a demonstration outside the transport department office to demand a fare hike and their other pending dues. AGPBOA General Secretary Sudip Tamhankar claimed that dues of subsidy on minimum fuel and insurance subsidy had not been given by the transport department. “The cost of diesel which was about Rs.64/- per litre as on March 2020 has gone to Rs. 96/- per litre as on date. The rise is about Rs. 32 per litre and a bus operating on a route of 200 km per day, with average…