PANAJI
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar arrived in Goa on Friday on a mission to douse the fires ignited by the Centre pushing through the farm bills which farmers across the country are agitating against. Javadekar is slated to meet with groups of farmers at Mapusa and Chorao on Saturday.BJP sources said the Central leader will hold forth on howthe three new legislations will benefit farmers in the meetings on Saturday.
PERNEMAmbrose Fernandes was elected unopposed as sarpanch of Mandrem on Wednesday.Fernandes was the only panch to apply for the post which had fallen vacant after former sarpanch Ashweta Mandrekar had resigned on August 28 in a mutual agreement among other panchas.The meeting to elect the new sarpanch was conducted on Wednesday at 11 am and the panch members attending the meeting included Serefina Fernandes, Priya Konadkar, Ashweta Mandrekar, Pradip Hadfadkar, Raghoba Gaude…
