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Canacona Canacona taluka for the first time since Covid-19 pandemic affected the whole world has breached 100 active cases on Friday eventhough Community Health Centre is in overdrive to vaccinate each and every individual above the age of 45 in the taluka. Sources at the Community Health Centre in Canacona informed that with the detention of eleven more cases on Friday the active Covid-19 case load reached 103 in the taluka. Since last few weeks the number of Covid-19 cases has increased geometrically added the same source. However the first Covid-19 case was detected in Canacona on 9th June when…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI:The number of coronavirus cases in Goa today crossed the 700 mark after 5 months. While there 282 recoveries and 6death were reported today. As per DHS health bulletin, Among the 5 death’s reported at GMC, 2 patients have expired in less than 6 hours. The one patient admitted as medico legal case was into a surgical unit and was found covid positive on admission. The exact cause of death will be available only after the postmortem. The second patient was symptomatic with cough and fever for 06 days and detected covid positive 06 days back and was…

Christanand Pednekar SANGUEM: On October 20, 2020, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Goa becomes first ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State across the nation by providing tap water connection to every rural household. He said that Goa has set an example for other States to emulate providing potable water is a national priority for the Union Government. However, the statements are far from reality. Villagers in this remote village in South Goa have to travel 5-10 kilometers to wash clothes and fetch drinking water. Goemkarponn visits a village called Cavrem, only 15 km away from the Selaulim dam, which is feeding the…

Goemakrponn desk Canacona: The world is witnessing new normal after the deadly coronavirus caused an unprecedented pandemic around the world. The disease produced by the novel coronavirus and its consequences have not only posed a challenge for health authorities worldwide but other changes also has put the administration on added stress. In a similar case after the pandemic hit Goa in the beginning of last year people avoided visiting closed markets and as such enterprising youth grabbed the opportunity with both their hands and started selling their wares from the busy roadsides. Due to unprecedented loss of jobs youth are…

New Delhi: Sunil Arora (65), who retired as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on Monday, is tipped to be the Governor of Goa in recognition of his administrative capabilities as a 1980 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, who retired as the Information and Broadcasting Secretary before joining the Election Commission on September 1, 2017. Hailing originally from Punjab, Arora is likely to be picked up by the Modi government for the Goa governor’s post lying vacant for exhibiting his administrative capabilities in various positions, including as the Principal Secretary of then Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and chairman and…

Goemakrponn desk SANKHALIM: In a major setback to the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant in his constituency, the Dharmesh Saglani led panel won the no-confidence motion in Sanquelim municipal council by 7-0 votes. The High Court of Bombay at Goa has directed the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) to ensure all steps are taken for a meeting for consideration for Motion of No Confidence against Chairperson of Sanquelim Municipal Council (SMC) Yeshwant Madkar is positively held on April 16. Upset over the 43-day delay to convene a meeting to discuss the no-confidence motion against Sankhali Municipal Council (SMC) Chairperson Yeshwant…

CURCHOREM: The no confidence motion against Curchorem Cacora Municipal chairperson Balkrishna Hodarkar was finally passed with 9-6 votes. The Vishwas Sawant panel, supported by Bharatiya Janata Party, emerged victorious. In a historic development, the councillors of Curchorem Cacora Municipality had filed a no-confidence motion against the chairperson last month within 30 minutes of being elected to office. Earlier DMA had rejected the NC motion on technical grounds. This NC incidentally, had been moved by nine newly-elected councillors, half an hour after the CCMC Chairperson Balkrishna (Pinty) Hodarkar had been elected. Thereafter, Rhucha Vasta, who had been elected as the CCMC…