Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Healthcare Workers Geeta Salgaonkar and Prashant Devidas have received the prestigious National Florence Nightingale Award as a mark of recognition for their meritorious services. “Hearty Congratulations to Goa’s Healthcare workers, Smt. Geeta Salgaonkar & Shri Prashant Devidas on receiving the prestigious National Florence Nightingale Award, as a mark of recognition for their meritorious services,” said CM Sawant. He further thanked Geeta and Prashant for their dedicated services to the State and the people, especially during the trying times of pandemic. The President of India Ram Nath Kovind said that the unrelenting support provided by the nurses has…
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Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The Ponda Municipal Council (PMC) has decided to complete the pending work on Ponda Market Complex by spending Rs 1.43 crore. The project was left incomplete as few shop vendors have challenged and approached the Court. Following this, the contractor had kept the work of the Market Project at the disputed part challenged in Court. PMC Chairperson Shantaram Colvekar said the issue was resolved as the vendors had compromised after PMC rehabilitated them with alternative shops. He said the pending work would be completed soon, and the project would be operational soon. He said already lift has…
Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The locals of Ponda City have demanded to scrap the proposed 15-meter road on the Ponda ODP. Locals, including Architect Kamlakar Saddle, Sunil Desai, Vinayak Nayak, Mario Coelho, Uday Dangi and others, have demanded removing the 15 meters proposed road alongside the main nullah serves no purpose but would destroy wetlands (paddy field). In this regard, Ponda Citizen Group today submitted a memorandum to SGPDA officials. The discussions were held in PMC Office in the presence of Chairperson Shantaram Colvekar. In their memorandum Citizens group reminded that a green non-development belt was provided along the stream as…
Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Gold ornaments valuing more than 14 lakh rupees were robbed from a household at Ponsulem in Canacona in January of this year; despite it being more than 9 months from the robbery date, police have been unable to trace the culprit. Aggrieved over the sorry state of affairs in the investigations, Ramesh Desai, a senior citizen safeguarding the gold for his daughter, filed another complaint, urging the police department to undertake the investigations seriously so that the culprit is caught as soon as possible. Alleging that the police had not done the investigation in any depth, Mr…
Aam Aadmi Party has condemned the BJP Govt of Goa for its complete lack of ability and interest in saving Goan lives from the coronavirus pandemic. Reacting to the news of another 68 deaths that remained unreported from Aug 2020 to June 2021, State Convenor Rahul Mhambre said this is the fourth time that the BJP Govt had failed in this basic duty of Covid management. “CM Sawant and HM Rane have been too busy in political wrangling, instead of focussing on their main task of saving Goan lives. This is the fourth time that unreported deaths have been…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Panaji Town Police in a narcotic raids at two different places have arrested two natives of Uttar Pradesh for illegal possession of 559 grams and 605 grams of ganja worth Rs 1,10,000/ Police through their sources and meticulous planning and intelligence conducted two Narcotic raid at two different places in Panaji PS jurisdiction and caught accused persons namely Suresh Kumar S/o Ramesh Ram, age 28 years R/o Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh and accused Jitendra Singh S/o Sanjay Singh, age 22 years R/o Mirzapur Uttar Pradesh and seized 559.1 grams and 605 grams Ganja all W/Rs 1,10,000. Both accused…
Goemkarponn Desk BAGA: Drishti Lifesavers today evening has rescued a group of six fishermen who were out fishing when their boat hit the swell in the sea at Baga beach. As per information, the six fisherman are aged between 20 to 25 years. In a state of panic, all 6 males jumped into the water and the current began to drift them into the sea. Drishti supervisor Mangesh Gawas immediately rushed to the scene with a jet ski and safely rescued three males. Drishti lifesavers Babaji Ankush Naik, Prathmesh Mahale and Kiran Pawar rescued the remaining three victims with the…