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GT: MLAs slug it out in the Assembly
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. MLAs slug it out in the Assembly. Encroachments in open spaces will not be regularised: Joaquim. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: The Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao felt that diversion of open spaces by legitimising illegal construction on them defeats the very purpose of having such open spaces in the first place. The show-cause notice in this case was served on 6 May, 2005," informed Alemao. Assagao sports ground grounded? Earlier, Siolim ML...
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GT: Nutritional officers to be appointed: Monserrate
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Nutritional officers to be appointed: Monserrate. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: What started with concern over the low quality of mid-day meals soon blew up into an opportunity for different MLAs to air their grievances. In view of the criticism of the Mid Day Meal Scheme Education Minister Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate promised to appoint a Nutritional Officer to check the nutritive value and quality of food served daily. Following up the matter, Bich...
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GT: Two accused still absconding
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Two accused still absconding. Assaulted councillor is vice-chairperson. BY A GT CORRESPONDENT. PONDA: The two brothers Daniel and Benny Fernandes who have been booked for threatening to kill Vincent Paul Fernandes, a Ponda Municipality councillor are still absconding. Not allowing himself to be deterred by the events of Tuesday, Vincent, has continued and has been elected unopposed as the vice-Chairperson of Ponda Municipal Council, yesterday.
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GT: BOOM-BOOM BABU
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Sports Minister whacks Parrikar’s bouncer. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: It’s not often that Assembly proceedings are packed with fire-works, but yesterday was one of those rare days in the Goa Assembly when Sports Minister Babu Azgaonkar verbally clashed with Opposition Leader, Manohar Parrikar. 8221; Azgaonkar asked aloud. To this, Azgaonkar shot back: “Were the same type of carrots dangling before him for IFFI? The clash occurred when Parrikar, in ...
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GT: Civic bodies to get octroi dues
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Civic bodies to get octroi dues. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: Giving in to persistent demands by vociferous BJP benches, Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao has promised to release a sum of Rs 17 crore due to all Municipalities in the state. This sum has been pending under two heads - Rs 14 crore is 0.75% VAT to Municipalities in lieu of octroi while Rs 3 crores is the disbursal of fund earmarked to Municipalities under budgetary provision.
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GT: Chikungunya cases worry MLAs
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Chikungunya cases worry MLAs. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: With figures of patients afflicted with Chikungunya mounting by the day in areas like Rivona, Kavrem-Pirla, Sanguem MLA Vasudev Gaonkar demanded immediate action from the Health Ministry to arrest this trend. He said the DHS has despatched staff to these areas and is constantly monitoring the emerging situation. " The survey of such places is being carried out an awareness drive has also ...
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GT: Sweeping machines: Clean sweep for Oppn
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Sweeping machines: Clean sweep for Oppn. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: The utter futility of five sweeping machines on Goan roads resulting in wasteful expenditure, their appendages in the form of tractors and the planned outsourcing of all these machines for a sizeable sum rankled the opposition BJP benches yesterday. What’s worse, tractors are unable to pull the load of these machines on slope thereby rendering them useless on such roads as we...
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GT: Maid and the ‘monsters’
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Friday, July 31, 2009. Maid and the ‘monsters’. Tale of a 10-year-old girl, how she fled from the house ofher tormentors. BY A GT REPORTER. PANJIM: How did the 10-year-old girl ill-treated and physically tortured for six months by her employers, the Porvorim-based Pednekars, escape from her masters’ clutches? She wasn’t carrying even a single penny and fortunately encountered a humane bus conductor who let her go, perhaps pitying her for her physical condition. Audhumbe...
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GT: Jul 27, 2009
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Gomantak Times (Get more from it). Monday, July 27, 2009. 2 more abductors held, driver’s body found. BY A GT REPORTER. MARGAO: Two of the four abductors who were still at large in the kidnapping of a Vasco youth were finally arrested at Pirna-Verna, and also, the body of the 47-year-old driver Sudan Dabhale (not Sham Dhale as reported) from Ucassaim, Mapusa recovered from the bushes in Consua in a highly decomposed state. The deceased’s relatives have identified his body. A total of 80 policemen and 60 ...