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Team Goemkarponn QUEPEM: In a firm move to uphold food safety standards across Goa, the South Goa Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) conducted surprise inspections at a sweet mart and a sweet manufacturing unit in Quepem taluka, uncovering serious hygiene violations. During the raids, officials found 60 kilograms of mawa (milk solids) valued at ₹16,200 stored without proper labelling or packaging, and in unsanitary conditions. This unlabelled stock was detained and destroyed on the spot. Further inspection of the sweet manufacturing unit revealed it was operating in extremely unhygienic conditions, posing a significant risk to consumer health. Additionally, the team…

Team Goemkarponn CALANGUTE: Calangute Police have registered a case against five former employees of Hotel Rivasa Emarald and Hotel Rivasa Resort in Calangute for allegedly misappropriating over ₹22 lakh from guest payments over a span of nearly five years. The complaint was lodged by Mr. Arvind Desai, Director of Arvind Realtors Pvt Ltd, which manages both properties. According to the FIR (Cr No. 86/2025), the accused—Minoshka Mario Mendes (resident of Siolim), Dharmesh Bhandari (from Honnavar), Justin Raj (from Tamil Nadu), Alamgir Anwar Mandal, and Shashibhushan Chouhan—were entrusted with handling guest payments at the reception counters between April 2019 and January…

Team Goemkarponn MORMUGAO: Mormugao police have arrested a man for allegedly assaulting a youth with a wooden rafter, causing grievous injuries to his head, in a rented room at Baina. As per the complaint filed by 20-year-old Rahul Kumar Majhe, a resident of Baina and native of Bihar, the incident occurred on May 25 at around 9.00 pm. The accused, identified as Rahul Kumar Sahni, also residing in Baina and hailing from Bihar, allegedly attacked Rajesh Majhe with a wooden rafter, striking him on the head. The victim sustained serious head injuries and was shifted to Goa Medical College and…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The Cyber Crime Police Station in Goa has arrested a 63-year-old man from Shivamogga, Karnataka, in connection with a significant cyber fraud case involving an amount of ₹1.02 Crore. The arrest comes after a detailed investigation into the fraudulent activities of an online trading scheme that lured victims with promises of high returns. The accused, identified as K. Krishna Murthy, was arrested after an extensive probe revealed that he had been involved in deceiving a victim from Old Goa into investing large sums of money in a bogus trading platform called ‘ASK Smart Prospect Y5. The scheme…

Team Goemkarponn VASCO: Vasco police have registered a case against two accused, including one Nitish Singh Yadav and unidentified persons using mobile numbers under the name of Shamshad Travels, for allegedly duping a local resident through a fake advertisement for Hajj travel packages on Facebook. The complaint was filed by Nasir Jamal, son of Idris Ansari, a resident of Baina, Vasco. As per the police, the accused posted an online advertisement offering cheap travel packages to Saudi Arabia for performing Hajj. Jamal, who intended to send three of his friends or relatives for the pilgrimage, contacted the numbers mentioned in…

Team Goemkarponn MOPA: An 86-year-old Portuguese national, Jawaharlal Caramchand, was booked at the Mopa Airport Police Station on Tuesday after an antique pistol was found in his baggage during a routine security screening. According to a complaint lodged at 16:18 hrs by Prathamesh Ramakant Halarnkar, Shift Incharge for Inline Screening & Security at Mopa International Airport (MIA), the accused was scheduled to travel to London (LWG) on Air India flight A1145, occupying seat number 22G. During security screening conducted at approximately 11:35 hrs, officials discovered an antique pistol marked “Perfecta Model ‘S’ Made in Germany” in Mr. Caramchand’s baggage bearing…

For far too long, the National Highway expansion project passing through Bhoma has remained a festering wound in Goa’s infrastructure narrative. At the heart of the issue lies a fundamental question: why does the government continue to push a project that has seen consistent local resistance, when an alternative—though perhaps costlier—could solve the impasse once and for all? The villagers of Bhoma have not been ambiguous in their stand. Their opposition to the current alignment of the highway is rooted in deep-seated concerns about displacement, destruction of homes, and damage to age-old religious structures that form the cultural and spiritual…