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Goemkarponn Desk PANJIM: Goa today reported 101 new COVID-19 positive cases. While there were 127 recoveries and 2 deaths. As per DHS health bulletin, two more persons succumbed to covid in Goa. A 66-year-old man from Chinchinim who had tested positive for covid was brought dead at Chinchinim PHC on July 22 while a 83-year-old woman from Pissurlem died at GMC today. Goa’s covid positivity rate stands at 2.25 % with 101 of the 4470 samples testing positive for covid. With 127 recoveries the active covid count now stands at 999. The District Magistrate and District Disaster Management Authority, North…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The opposition to the Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill, which was hurriedly passed in the recently concluded Assembly, has intensified with the civic society threatening state-wide agitation. While the citizens have criticised the Government for passing the Bill favouring migrants, the Opposition was not spared as “they gave a safe passage to the Bill” in the Assembly by the walkout. So far, only few politicians, Madkai MLA Sudin Dhavalikar and Sanguem MLA Prasad Gaonkar, have stood against the Bil besides Congress president Girish Chodankar. Chodankar said that the Goans are totally against the illegal act of the Government to…

One troll sent me a message saying if you had opposed IIT Goa for property rights to locals, why are you opposing this Bill? This Bill would give Shel Melauli villagers their rights. Similarly, he said people in Mayem are fighting for their property rights; this Bill is for them. My reply to that troll is, the Bill says it will legalise only 250 sq meters of land while the cultivation area of Melauli and Guleli villagers is in thousands of sq meters. So the Government will legalise only 250 sq meters out of thousands of sq meters of their…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: After laying water conveying pipeline by digging the Chapolim-Canacona road, the contractor has left it in a state that driving on this road has become dangerous and risk as many two-wheelers have lost control of their vehicles to be met with accidents, locals say. Locals allege that the contractor awarded the contract to lay water conveying pipeline from the Chapolim Dam to the Water Treatment Plant at Shristal has left the road in an unmotorable condition as the road itself has washed away at most of the places upto Nagarcem. Laxman, a resident of Chapolim village, informed…

2017 Sanvordem results… Candidate Party Votes Deepak Pawaskar MGP 14,575 Ganesh Gavkar BJP 9354 Shankar Kilpankar Congress 991 Balkrishna R Pai Ind 152 NOTA – 305 List of all MLAs in Sanvodem 1989 Mohan Amsekar 1994. Vishnu Prabhu 1999. Vinay Tendulkar 2002. Vinay Tendulkar 2007. Anil Salgaonkar 2012. Ganesh Gavkar 2017. Deepak Pawaskar Christanand Pednekar/ Goemkarponn CURCHOREM: With no solution in sight for the resumption of mining in Goa for the last three and half years, except for approvals for Mining Corporation, this will be one of the core issues for the forthcoming assembly elections in Sanvordem Constituency, which is…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: BJP tribal leader Ramesh Tawadkar today claimed that the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has assured to remove word “Bhumiputra” from the controversial Bhumiputra Adhikarani bill, which State Assembly passed, last week. Tawadkar said that Bhumiputra refers to the son of the soil and backward class community, including Kunbi, Gawda. However, the use of the word may put the very identity of these communities under threat. “I along with other leaders met CM Sawant to seek clarification on certain aspects of the bill. The word Bhumiputra is basically referred to son of soil and to backward class…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary Daggubati Purandeswari today said that she was not aware of the Bhumiputra Adhikarani Bill and why there was such opposition and that the bill was brought in an attempt to protect Goan land. “I was not aware of the Bhumiputra Adhikarani Bill and why there was is opposition. I am sure the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant will come out with the clarification on the same,” said Purundeswari She further said that she cannot comment any futher on the bill as she has not studied the same. “According to Goa Bhumiputra…