Margao New Market Traders Association have threatened to launch an agitation if the road along the pick-up stand road is not kept open for parking and demanded the immediate removal of signboards erected demarcating that area as ‘Parking for Two Wheelers Only’.
The Association President Vinod Shirodkar argued that traders in the market would face not only hardships, but also financial loss if they are not allowed to park their four-wheelers along that road as they have been doing for years now.
He pointed out that if the road is earmarked for two-wheeler parking then the traders would not be able to park the vehicles supplying them their goods and this would create a lot of hardships and also financial loss to them.

The Town & Country Planning Department has insisted that M/s K Raheja first show the 10-metre wide access to their property in Carmona before undertaking any secondary development of the land thereby rejecting the Mumbai-based company’s application for permission to construct bungalows.
The Rajeha project in Carmona has been in the eye of a storm with the locals objecting to the project on various grounds and the issue has resulted in heated discussions at the gram Sabha where one even turned violent.

After nearly a decade, an Indian film bagged the top honour at the International Film Festival of India when Gautam Ghose’s movie Moner Manush was awarded the prestigious Golden Peacock award
An Indo-Bengal production, Moner Manush is the screen adaptation of Sunil Gangopadhyay’s novel that is based on the life of Lalon Fakir, a revered fakir whose poetry are considered to be classics. Popular Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterji essayed the role of Lalon in the movie which was premiered at IFFI 2010.
After receiving the award from chief guest Saif Ali Khan, Gautam Ghose said his film was about tolerance, religion, politics and culture and hoped that this recognition will encourage more Indo-Bengal films.

The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday gave reprieve to a 70-year old man who was reportedly being harassed by Health Minister Vishwajit Rane only because the former refused to sell his property at Dona Paula to Rane Jr. by ordering a stay on the construction of a compound wall undertaken by the minister as it was blocking access to the petitioner’s bungalow.
The petitioner Antonio F do Rosario alleged that he was being harassed by Vishwajit since he refused to sell his plot that is adjacent to the property purchased by the minister. Antonio pleaded that the minister was abusing his position to direct government officials to harass him and further alleged that the minister demolished the old house in his property to construct a new one without any license and even occupied the bungalow without obtaining an occupancy certificate.

 “Presently, I am not affiliated to any politician or any political party. I want to contest elections as peoples’ candidate,” said Dr. Hubert Gomes, addressing a press conference in Margao on Thursday.
Speaking about the forthcoming elections, he said while he will definite contest, whether it will be as an independent or as a party candidate will be decided by a committee of eminent persons from the constituency that will be constituted shortly.
When asked about joining any party, he said, “I have no plans as yet. It all depends on the committee. Few days back when my photographs with Micky Pacheco appeared in the local newspapers, people got a notion that I am associated with him, which is not true. But I don’t rule out any possibilities.”