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18 new faces dominate Mormugao Council

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The Mormugao Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) will be dominated by new faces as they won in 18 of the 25 wards, while only six outgoing councillors retained their seats in the 25-member council.

The 18 new faces who won the elections were Manjusha Pilankar (Ward 1), Dayanand Naik (Ward 2), Kunali Parsekar (Ward 3), Damodar Naik (Ward 5), Prajay Mayekar (Ward 6), Ramchandra Kamat (Ward 7), Yogita Parsekar (Ward 9), Kaliyarasi Swamy (Ward 10), Narayan Borkar (Ward 11), Shami Salkar (Ward 13), Mathias Montero (Ward 14), Priya Raut (Ward 15), Girish Borker (Ward 16), Amey Chopdekar (Ward 18), Shraddha Mahale (Ward 21), Sudesh Bhosle (Ward 22), Vinod Kinlekar (Ward 23) and Catarina Xavier (Ward 24).

The six outgoing councillors who managed to get re-elected were Damodar Kaskar (Ward 4), Shraddha Amonkar (Ward 8), Deepak Naik (Ward 12), Fredrick Henriques (Ward 17), Yatin Kamurlekar (Ward 20) and Leo Rodrigues (Ward 25).

Meanwhile, one former councillor Devita Arolkar won in Ward 19.


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Education dept allows teachers, school staff to stay at home

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Apr 27, 2021, 12:54 AM IST
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PANAJIOne week after shutting academics, the Education department on Monday allowed all teaching and non-teaching staff of schools to stay at home in view of the rising Covid cases.The circular issued by acting director D R Bhat says, "all the teaching and non-teaching staff shall not attend their schools with immediate effect and until further orders”.The circular adds that the work of preparing and declaring results, so also counseling and teaching process if any, shall be…

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