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Tamil Nadu: Fifty five people have died after consuming toxic liquor in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi district, around 250 km from state capital Chennai. At least 88 others, who reportedly consumed the toxic liquor over the past few days, have been hospitalised. Many of these victims were from Karunapuram area. Three minor children have lost both their parents in the tragedy. The siblings are now staring at an uncertain future. “I don’t know how to take care of them,” their grandmother said. A woman who lost her son said, “He complained of severe stomach ache and difficulty to open his eyes.…

Goemkarponn Desk MUMBAI: A 32-year-old man, an accused in an extortion case filed at the Mapusa police station, fled from Mumbai airport while being transported to Goa by Mapusa police officers, who were escorting him and another co-accused from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, via Delhi. The police claim that the escape happened early on Wednesday. The Goa-based businessman was the target of an extortion case filed by Mapusa police, in which the accused pretended to be Delhi drug unit officers and demanded Rs 30 lakh. Sections 342, 170, 323, 506(2), 389, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code were used to…

New Delhi: Hitting out at a documentary released by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which makes sensational claims about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian government, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday that it contains blatant untruths and attempts to malign India. “The documentary contains blatant untruths, is biased and reflects unprofessional reporting. It appears to serve a particular agenda to malign India. We obviously oppose any such attempts to condone, justify and even glorify terrorism,” MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at the weekly briefing. “The very basis of this documentary is something that is questionable,” he…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) intends to move some ninety street vendors who have already registered formally with the civic body and to draw boundaries around hawker zones at various points throughout the city under its jurisdiction. The CCP Mayor, Rohit Monserrate, stated that the process of determining workable locations with sufficient public space is ongoing and that the precise locations have not yet been determined. However, according to Monserrate, a few locations have already been chosen to host the hawking zones, including the parking lot close to the Don Bosco school, the vicinity…

New Delhi: Business activity in India expanded at a faster clip this month from May thanks to gains in manufacturing and services, according to a business survey that also showed the pace of job creation was at its strongest in over 18 years. Robust gains in both sectors at the end of the first fiscal quarter meant a strong start to India’s economy this financial year after it expanded by 8.2 per cent last year – the fastest expansion among major countries – partly led by buoyant manufacturing. HSBC’s flash India Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index , compiled by S&P Global,…

New Delhi: PhonePe, Cred, BillDesk and Infibeam Avenues are some of the major fintechs that will be affected after the RBI’s latest regulation requiring credit card bill payments to be routed through a centralised billing network comes into force from July 1, according to an Economic Times report. The Reserve Bank of India earlier directed that all credit card payments must be processed through the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) after June 30. So far, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank have not activated BBPS. These banks have issued a combined over 5 crore credit cards to customers. As…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: According to industry secretary Swetika Sachan, the government will soon launch a logistic incentive scheme that would allow investors in the logistics sector to apply for subsidies, thereby triggering the state’s Logistics & Warehousing Policy 2023. According to her, the incentive plan is nearing completion and will shortly be submitted for approval to the legislative assembly. According to Sachan, “three rounds of meetings with logistics and cargo stakeholders have already been held to address concerns on incentives.” Under the logistics policy, a financial clearance of Rs 25 crore has been made available for incentives. In May 2023,…