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Goemkarponn desk Margao – AICC In-Charge for Goa Dinesh Rao has said that the BJP Government in Goa is now frightened with the growing opposition and rising discontent amongst the people about its misrule in the least nine years. “Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant is now adopting the tactics of high handedness to supress the voice of the people. The imposition of National Security Act is to restrict the participation of the people in the CZMP Public Hearings. Government may soon impose it in North Goa as well ,” charged Rao. He was speaking at the Grocery Distribution Function organized…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has announced extention of State Level Curfew till 7 am, June 28. “State Level Curfew will be extended till 7. AM, 28 June 2021. Shops in Shoping malls, except cinema halls, theatres, multiplexes, entertainment zones allowed to be open between 7 am to 3 PM,” said CM Sawant He further said that fish market may also open. Detailed order will be issued by District Collectors,” he said. Goa recorded 302 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking the caseload to 1,64,229 . With 6 patients succumbing during the day, the death toll in…

PANAJI: Around 500 members of Goa Pradesh Youth Congress on Saturday distributed groceries, food packets, sanitizes and masks to the public, on the occasion of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s birthday. AICC Secretary and Goa desk incharge Dinesh Gundu Rao attended the programs at Margao and Old Age Home-Old Goa. The leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, GPCC President Girish Chodankar, Youth Congress President Adv. Varad Mardolkar and others were present on the occasion. The program was carried out by all blocks across Goa. St. Andre block distributed food packets to relatives of patients in GMC, while groceries were given to the…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: While the Central government has sanctioned thousands of crores of rupees for the widening and relaying of the National Highway 66 (NH17) from Patradevi to Polem, the ongoing work has become unmotorable and risk to lives of the commuters. For past three years now, the work on the widening has been underway while the work on stretch from Patradevi to Bambolim has been handed over to M/s MV Rao, the Bambolim to Verna stretch is being undertaken by M/s Dilip Buildcon, which also includes 8-lane Zuari Bridge. But unfortunately, right from Patradevi in Pernem taluka to Polem…

The FLOOD SCARE… * It may be recalled that last year following the release of Tillari water, the entire village of Sal and its surrounding areas were partly submerged. Several houses were submerged causing huge loss of property and even some cattle were carried along with the water. The ordeal did not stop here but after the floods from heavy rains, septic tanks of some residents of Sal village were filled with flood water. The foul smell emanating from these tanks through the village caused inconvenience to residents. QUOTES… “The last two years flooding was due to heavy rainfall and…

Waiting for Justice…. “Everyone is innocent until proven otherwise, we are rightly concerned that the person accused of Danielle’s murder, who has rightly been kept in custody since his arrest, is all of a sudden going to be released on bail, and that he will flee from justice. For me and many whose near and dear ones died mysteriously while in India, it’s very difficult to understand the nature of legal proceedings, it’s more than four years we are waiting for justice in the case, it’s a living death for me each and every day” Andrea Brannigan Mother of Danielle…

*Galgibaga river, which in normal course used to flow into the sea together with the Mashem River has been separated and now connects directly to the Arabian Sea. Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: At last the inevitable has happened as the Galgibaga river which in normal course used to flow into the sea together with the Mashem river, has got separated and now connects directly to the Arabian sea. The damage caused to the sand bar separating the Galgibaga river and the Arabian sea and deposition of sand on its normal course has been the reasons attributed to the evitable change, locals…