CM Pramod Sawant with the vendor Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Friday lost his cool with Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) managing director Rohan Khaskar after learning that an elderly woman’s trade licence at the KTC Panaji bus terminus was still pending despite her repeated visits to the head office.Sawant directed Khaskar to renew the…
Margao: Snake bite cases and consequent deaths must now be reported to health authorities, after the Directorate of Health Services notified the condition under Section 57 of the Goa Public Health Act, 1985. The order which comes into force with immediate effect, has brought snake bite cases within Part II of Chapter VII of the…
150 Accounts Used To Fund Banned Betting AppsNagpur: A special squad of the zonal DCP Rishikesh Singa Reddy busted a city-based mule account racket with pan-India and international links. Cops arrested two persons who allegedly created and operated more than 150 bank accounts in the last two months. Sources said that over Rs100 crore was…
Panaji: Seven panchayats–Shiroda, Revora, Nerul, Azossim–Mandur, Borim, Sarzora, and Dharbandora–will be honoured on Independence Day for meeting the goals of the TB-Free India campaign.Of these, Shiroda earned gold status, while the others secured silver status under the initiative.The TB-Free Panchayat initiative, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aimed to speed up the elimination of tuberculosis…
Kamat praised South Goa police for swift removal of seized vehicles Margao: In the wake of a dengue scare that saw two policemen test positive for the vector-borne disease, the South Goa police cleared out a pile of seized vehicles and discarded items lying around the district police headquarters here within a single day, prompting…
Margao: State Congress president Girish Chodankar on Friday strongly condemned what he termed an act of caste discrimination against AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, after a “purification ritual” was allegedly conducted at a venue in Uttarakhand following Kharge’s visit.Chodankar termed the act deeply objectionable and said it exposed the persistence of casteist attitudes at a time…
Belagavi: The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Mangaluru sub-zonal office has arrested Shivanand Siddappa Neelannavar, head of Belagavi-based Shivam Associates, in connection with an alleged multi-state Ponzi scheme involving more than Rs 2,110 crore.In a press release, the ED identified Neelannavar as the key person responsible for managing the flow of funds within Shivam Associates. He was…
Panaji: Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) is incurring an additional Rs 70 lakh per month in fuel expenditure following an increase of Rs 11 per litre in diesel prices amid geopolitical tensions in West Asia, said chairman, Ulhas Tuyekar. He was speaking at the launch of the newly procured 53-seater Tata semi-luxury buses into its fleet…
Margao: Sanguem police have booked two GFP functionaries, among others, for allegedly confronting police personnel inside the Sanguem police station, after one of them, Meshu D’Costa, was summoned in connection with a complaint over the latching of the local PWD office. D’Costa is a member of GFP’s political affairs committee and also of the Sanguem…
Central and state financial assistance will be available only if domestically manufactured solar panels using domestically manufactured solar cells are used Panaji: State govt on Friday notified the Grid-Connected Rooftop Solar Promotion Scheme for all the residential sectors, group housing societies (GHS), resident welfare association (RWA), educational Institutions, industrial, commercial establishments and NGOs among others…
