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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A notification of zone change issued under the recently amended section 17(2) of the Town and Country Planning Amendment Act, which had “rectified” a paddy field into settlement, was stayed by the Bombay High Court in Goa. The High Court granted interim relief to Gaurav Bakshi, who had filed a petition challenging the notification regarding a 6,000 square meter paddy field that had been “rectified” and represented as a settlement in the notification. The petition also requested a stay on the notification regarding the plot located in Cujira village of Tiswadi taluka. The petitioner’s advocate informed the…

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to officially change the state’s name to ‘Keralam’. The Assembly passed the resolution for the second time because the Union Home Ministry, which reviewed the first resolution, suggested some technical changes. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who moved the resolution, wanted the union government to change the southern state’s name from “Kerala” to “Keralam” in all languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of the country. Moving the resolution, the CM said the state was called ‘Keralam’ in Malayalam and that the demand to form a…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has disposed of a suo motu contempt petition related to police parading and posing with accused persons and circulating the photographs to the media after the 6 police personnel to whom notice was issued in this regard tendered unconditional apology. DGP Goa also told the court via an affidavit that police personnel have been sensitised in this regard. Pangam informed the bench that the police had been made aware of the situation and that no such photos had been shared or published following the filing of the petition. The DGP…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Police believe he may have been crushed beneath the wheels of a large vehicle based on the tyre marks. In addition to looking for the car, police are attempting to identify the victim. Three people lost their lives on Goa’s deadly roads last night in Mollem, Margao, and Lotoulim, respectively. Tanvesh Rivonkar, 35, of Collem passed away last night in an accident at Sukhtali, Mollem. On Mollem Highway, he is said to have lost control of his bike and crashed it into a parked truck. The truck broke down and had been parked there for the last…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi was indeed one of the darkest times in the history of India’s Democratic Journey. “Declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi was indeed one of the darkest times in the history of India’s Democratic Journey,” said Sawant He further said that this day is rightly observed as a ‘Black Day,’ serving as a reminder of when the Congress Government misused its power to silence the media, opposition leaders, and the people of India. “Today, I honour and salute the brave leaders who stood up…

NEW DELHI: As India marks 49 years of the 1975 Emergency on June 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress for protesting with Constitution copies in their hands, saying the Opposition party had no right to “profess its love” for the Constitution. “Today is a day to pay homage to all those great men and women who resisted the Emergency. The Dark Days Of Emergency remind us of how the Congress Party subverted basic freedoms and trampled over the Constitution of India which every Indian respects greatly,” PM Modi posted on X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday. “Just to cling…

New Delhi: Five cases of alleged malpractices in the medical entrance exam NEET-UG in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Bihar were taken over by the CBI, while two school teachers were arrested in Maharashtra on Monday. This comes even as a political storm intensified over the paper leak issue, with the opposition gearing up to confront the Centre in Parliament. The five new cases were being investigated by police in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Bihar. The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra police arrested two zilla parishad school teachers from Latur and registered a case against four persons after it emerged that a racket…