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Team Goemkarponn MAPUSA: Subhash Shirodkar, the Minister for Water supplies, has outlined his vision to safeguard the State’s water supplies and revitalize the agriculture industry, with an ambitious objective for Goa to end water shortages by 2047. “I am working with a target that by 2047, Goa should not face any shortage of water,” said Shirodkar. Additionally, he provided updates on the Sal River project, which is anticipated to improve the state’s water supply. “We have a project called Sal that will guarantee water reaches Calangute starting in 2025. But because the barrage is still being built, there might be…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Changes to the Goa Motor Vehicle Rules, including fees for selecting a license plate, maintaining registration marks, and address verification, have been announced by the state government. According to the announcement, more documents will be considered as address verification under the new Rule 5A, including registration certificates received for corporations, partnerships, LLPs, MSME, trusts, and societies. Regarding pricing, the notification stated that a public e-auction will be used to decide fees for a select number of numbers. A retention cost equal to 25% of the applicable fee for the selected category has been established for the retention…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: India Meteorological Department (IMD) Goa today has issued an orange alert, warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over North and South Goa. A yellow alert has been issued for the next two days. “Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places over North Goa and South Goa districts. Thunderstorms accompanied with lightning and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) is very likely on October 12,” the IMD said. For October 12 and 13, the IMD said heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely over North Goa and South Goa districts.…

NEW DELHI: The meeting was brief, but Rahul Gandhi made his point. That the Haryana Congress leaders were selfish and they caused the loss. Gandhi attended the review meeting called by party president Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence. Also present were observers namely Ajay Maken, Ashok Gehlot, Deepak Babaria and KC Venugopal. Sources say Gandhi was largely quiet, but when his turn came to speak he made two strong points. One, that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and Election Commission (EC) have much to answer and he wanted a detailed report on what went wrong in terms of counting. But the second point…

GAZA: A senior Hezbollah official escaped an Israeli assassination attempt as the Israeli strikes pounded central Beirut on Thursday and the UN said its peacekeeping headquarters were targeted in Southern Lebanon. The Lebanon Health Ministry said that Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut killed 22 people and wounded dozens, further escalating Israel’s bloody conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The air raid on central Beirut, the deadliest in over a year of the war, targeted two residential buildings in separate neighbourhoods simultaneously. It brought down one eight-story building and wiped out the lower floors of the other. After the strikes, Hezbollah…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday addressed the 19th East Asia Summit in Laos and emphasised that terrorism is a serious threat to global peace. He also said that forces believing in humanity will have to work in cooperation to tackle the same. “Terrorism is also a serious challenge to global peace and security. To face it, forces believing in humanity will have to work together. And, mutual cooperation in the areas of cyber, maritime and space will also have to be strengthened,” the Prime Minister said. “The conflicts going on in different parts of the world are having the…

DHAKA A crown of Goddess Kali at the Jeshoreshwari Temple in Bangladesh’s Satkhira, gifted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been stolen, according to reports. The silver, gold-plated crown was reportedly stolen on Thursday between 2.00 pm and 2.30 pm when Temple Priest Dilip Mukherjee left following the day’s worship. The cleaning staff later found that the crown was missing from the deity’s head, Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star claimed. “We are reviewing the temple’s CCTV footage to identify the thief,” said Inspector Taizul Islam of Shyamnagar Police Station. The stolen crown holds significant religious importance for devotees as the…