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Team Goemkarponn BAMBOLIM: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Thursday inspected the completion of the third slab of the Tertiary Cancer Care Centre (TCCC) at Bambolim, marking a key milestone in the State’s efforts to strengthen advanced healthcare facilities. Rane said the project will soon see two additional floors being constructed, with a special focus on dedicated services for cancer patients. “The TCCC will not only offer state-of-the-art infrastructure but also integrate affordable access to lifesaving therapies through PPILT, mega medical camps that take detection-to-cure facilities to people’s doorsteps, and early cancer screening powered by AI,” the minister stated. He…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Goa State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) will conduct centralised competency-based examinations for students from classes 3 to 8, beginning this October. Over 1.20 lakh students across the state will be covered under the new system, which aims to bring greater uniformity and standardisation in student assessment. The exams will follow a common timetable, with students of classes 5 to 8 appearing from October 7, and those in classes 3 and 4 from October 9. To prepare for the shift, more than 450 teachers from around 1,500 schools were…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Amit Patkar on Wednesday accused the BJP of hypocrisy, claiming that the Centre’s belated acceptance of an 18% cap on Goods and Services Tax (GST) vindicated Rahul Gandhi’s stand from 2016. “Rahul Gandhi was absolutely right in 2016 when he demanded an 18% GST cap. The BJP mocked him and dismissed his vision. For nine years, the people of India suffered under the flawed GST regime. Now, after damaging the economy, the BJP has quietly accepted the same proposal it once opposed,” Patkar charged. He added that the ruling party’s…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has set aside an order of the Excise Commissioner against licence holder Chandani Satardekar, holding that the penalty was imposed without granting her an opportunity to be heard. A Division Bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Nivedita Mehta directed the Commissioner to either issue a fresh notice or communicate a hearing date to Satardekar before taking the matter forward. Satardekar, through her counsel, had argued that the department’s August 14, 2025 order was passed in violation of natural justice since she had not received a show-cause notice and…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has overturned the State Sentence Review Board’s decision to deny early release to Nafiyaj Shaikh Mamlekar, who is serving a life term in the 2006 Mandar Surlakar murder case. The court directed the Board to reconsider the application in line with legal guidelines. Mamlekar, along with three others, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Children’s Court in 2014 for kidnapping, murdering, and burning a teenage boy. The conviction, which included charges of conspiracy and destruction of evidence, was upheld by the High Court in 2019. In his petition,…

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced sweeping cuts in Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates on several daily-use items, while launching a sharp attack on the Congress party over its criticism of the 40 per cent “sin goods” slab. Addressing a press conference after a marathon meeting of the GST Council, Sitharaman said the Congress had failed to implement GST during its tenure and was now questioning reforms brought in under the Modi government. “Is the Congress Party demanding a 5 per cent tax on tobacco and gutkha? They must clarify if that is their…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hailed the sweeping Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms approved by the GST Council, calling them “next-generation changes” that will ease living for citizens and boost economic growth. In a post on X, the Prime Minister recalled that during his Independence Day address, he had pledged to bring wide-ranging GST reforms. “The Union Government had prepared a detailed proposal for broad-based GST rate rationalisation and process reforms, aimed at ease of living for the common man and strengthening the economy,” he said. Modi emphasised that the reforms would directly benefit multiple…