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PANAJI:Children of Freedom fighters have finally ended their Fast unto Death following written assurance from the Government to fulfill their demands including jobs. BJP President Sadanand Tanavade met the protestors with the written assurance. “I met families of freedom fighters at Azad Maidan now to give assurance on behalf of govt to resolve all their demands. They have ended their fast unto death protest,” said Tanavade Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant had assured the House to resolve all pending issues of Freedom fighters children by March 31 while urging them to end fast unto death. “Govt has assured to recruit…

PORVORIM:Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today has assured the House to resolve the Sonsodo garbage issue by calling for a meeting before Febuary 10. Also Minister for Waste Management Michael Lobo proposed to set up Saligao like integrated bio methanation plant at Sonsodo; remediation process to be completed by May. “I assure the house to resolve the Sonsodo garbage issueby calling for a meeting before Feb 10,” said CM Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo recently inspected the Sonsoddo garbage dump and met with the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) to discuss the remediation of the waste. The remediation of the…

PORVORIM:Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has infomred the house that the State tiger population show decline in last ten years. He said that as per All India Tiger Estimate, Goa had five tigers in 2014 & in 2018, the number came down to three. “As per All India Tiger Estimate, the report published by National Tiger Conservation Authority and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. In 2010 it was nil, 2014 there were 5 tigers in Goa and 2018 there were 3 tigers in Goa,” said CM He further informed that the Death of 1 tigress with 03 cubs was reported…

PORVORIM: Minister for Revenue Jennifer Monseratte has informed the House that Rs 30.80 crore funds were received through CM Relief Fund out of Rs 2.5 crore remains as of now. Jennifer was asnwering to a questioned posed by Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat. “Had received Rs 30.80 crore towards Chief Minister Relief Minister and as of now Rs 2.25 crore is the balance as on January 14,’ said Monseratte She further said that fund was mainly utilized for medical staff, essential commodities, masks. Covid centers, supply of good at containment zones

Goemkarponn desk Mapusa: In a major tragedy near Mapusa on Bodgeshwar Zatra day, as a family lost two of their kids due yo drowning. The decease are identified as Chandni Rajavat (10) and Piyush Rajvat (5), drowned in a pond of a temple at Verla–Canca. Mapusa police said the locals alerted them after slippers and a school bag were found on the edge of a pond. Police informed that both siblings had left the house at around 2.30 pm to go for tuition classes. Police suspect that two had gone to the pond to remove lotus and in that process…

Porvorim: Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte said that if last year was the year of Covid, than the coming year is of agitation for Goa due to insensitive attitude of the government. Khaunte was speaking on the floor of the House on the congratulatory motion on the speech of Governor. “Last one year, since February, we have been in Covid situation. Utter failure of this government brought us to standstill,” he said. “Several people lost their lives. We still need to know that the three parts of Social distance, masks and senitization are important. When we have half baked SOPs, that…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Goa University Undergraduate (UG) general education program’s academic year 2020-2021 will end on July 2 as per revised academic schedule. The schedule has been revised by Goa University in view of Covid Pandemic. The new academic year 2021-22 will commence from August 10, 2021. The Second Semester will start on Feb 8,2021 and end on July 2,2021 for all streams except BSc(Including home science). For BSc the second term will commence on Feb 13,2021 and end on July 2,2021. The second term exams will be held from June 7 to July 17 July 2021.