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Winning and losing all part of the US poll game

The year long campaigning have culminated into a crescendo on the penultimate day unfolding into a day-long voting in the USA. Both candidates left no stone unturned and used every guile and knowledgeable armour to woo people to vote for them in these crucial elections. Kamala built quite considerable rallies  despite entering the fray  a bit late to challenge the Republican might in Donald Trump, confident of turning the election this time round in his favour. It was all going in favour of Trump who survived two assassination attempts, after President Biden dropped out the race, to make way for Harris to go in for the hunt, which she did admirably. Harris being born to immigrant parents, she worked as an Attorney General of the state of California, before becoming the US Vice President. Both candidates are exuding an air of confidence to achieve the majority 270 seats to win the White House. Defections are  non existent in US elections which are exercised by ballots and not EVMs, which is noteworthy.  The results will be declared the same day, leaving no room for margin of error and is final, where the 47th president will be declared.


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Heat building up against erring village panchas

ARWIN MESQUITA, Colva
Published Nov 5, 2024, 8:49 PM IST
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One thing that is becoming very clear in Goa is the active role of erring /specific panchas in allowing illegalities and deceitfully promoting mega housing/commercial properties ( many times without proper permissions).   There appears to be highly compromised members in the Sancoale Panchayat for the Bhutani project and so should be the case with the DLF hill cutting mega project at Reis Magos. However this does not end with the latter two and same is suspected…

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