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NEW DELHI: In a major breakthrough in the fight against cross-border terrorism, US-based Khalistani terrorist Harpreet Singh, also known as Happy Passia, is being brought back to India to face trial for his involvement in a string of deadly attacks across Punjab. Singh, a native of Amritsar, Punjab, was arrested on April 18 in the United States by teams from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He had been in ICE custody since his arrest and is now set to be extradited to India, according to official sources. The 37-year-old is accused of carrying…

New Delhi: The fury of the monsoon has left a trail of destruction across Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, with at least 78 people losing their lives in Himachal alone due to a combination of flash floods, landslides, and rain-triggered incidents. The relentless downpour has not only claimed lives but also caused massive infrastructural damage, leading to economic losses running into crores. Since June 20, Himachal Pradesh has been ravaged by 23 flash floods, 19 cloudbursts, and 16 landslides, as per data released by the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA). Of the 78 deaths reported so far, 50 are directly attributed…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Amid cabinet reshuffle buzz, Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker and Canacona MLA Ramesh Tawadkar says he is ready to take on any role the party assigns to him. However, in the same breadth he has achieved more people-centric work as Speaker than during his tenure as a Minister. Answering to a specific question that rumor mills are agog on reshuffle speculation involving name of Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar as one of the legislature to be included in reshuffled cabinet, Tawadkar responded saying ‘Ready to accept any role in the cabinet given by my party. All the way I have…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: A 54 year old woman travelling as a pillion rider with her husband fell from the running scooter, while opening umbrella to avoid the sudden torrential rains suffers severe head injuries on Friday afternoon, later dies while undergoing treatment at GMC Bambolim in the wee hours of Saturday. According to Canacona police, Guelhermina Fernandes, 54 resident of Agonda (Canacona) expired while undergoing treatment in ward 120 of GMC Bambolim. Police further informed that the deceased Fernandes was proceeding back home (Agonda) from Canacona on a Scooter driven by her husband and when reached at Bokdamol, Agonda suddenly…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: House-keys of 30 more new houses built by the dedicated 1000 shram-dham registered warriors (volunteers) under Ramesh Tawadkar ‘s record breaking ‘Shram-Dham’ initiative, an overwhelming social concept will be made over to the beneficiaries in the State of Goa in a Shram-Dham melava to be held on 23 August. “We have a band of 1000 registered volunteers tirelessly and selflessly working to build the Shram–Dham houses and for the last one and a half year we had already built 40 houses and made over these 40 house-keys to the beneficiaries under our Shram-Dham concept. On 23rd August,…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Communidade of Loliem-Polem, in a landmark gathering has approved and passed six resolutions with overwhelming majority to allot it’s land portions/plots in the village to set-up a Sainik School, a Cricket Stadium, a Solar Power Plant, GTDC Wayside Tourist Amenities, Communidade own Office-cum-Commercial Complex and agreeing to a Joint Survey of Agro-based company’s 8 allotted plots in Extraordinary General Body Meeting on Sunday. The meeting was held in the Sabhamandap of Shri Keshav Devalaya, Loliem with an overwhelming majority of 38 out of 39 members present rallied behind the visionary resolutions brought in by the leadership. ‘The…

Team Goemkarponn MARGAO: The gleaming new wholesale fish market in Margao—rebuilt with taxpayer money and pitched as a model project—remains inexplicably closed months after construction was declared complete. Frustration is mounting among traders, local consumers, and civic stakeholders, who say the silence from authorities is unacceptable. The market, developed under the South Goa Planning and Development Authority (SGPDA), was meant to end decades of congestion, unhygienic conditions, and haphazard vending. But instead of a fresh start, it has become a textbook example of bureaucratic paralysis. Speaking to Goemkarponn, Anthony Fernandes, a wholesale fish trader who has operated in Margao for…