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Sonia Gandhi would be the second member of her family to enter the Rajya Sabha after former prime minister Indira Gandhi JAIPUR: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi filed her nomination papers from for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan on Wednesday. Her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also accompanied her to the state Assembly in Jaipur where she filed her nomination papers. Confirming the development, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that Gandhi choosing Rajasthan as her Rajya Sabha constituency will send a positive message among the party cadre and to the people. “She could…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The owner of 31 villas in Sebastian Vaddo, Anjuna, Vianaar Construction Pvt Ltd (La Olalian), has been fined Rs 2.77 crore by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) for operating without a sewage treatment facility and permission. Asking “why you should not pay environmental compensation of Rs 2,77,25,000 to the Board for violation under Air and Water pollution Act,” the Board served the company with a show-cause notice on February 12. The Board has also noted that, although being used for commercial tourism, the villas are not registered with the Tourism Department. In a notification that…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: The Mapusa police detained four individuals from various regions of North Goa on suspicion of fabricating PAN and Aadhaar cards. Mukund Sakharam Raut of Sal-Bicholim filed a complaint on February 12 against an unidentified individual for creating his phony Aadhaar and PAN cards and utilizing them at TJSB Bank in Mapusa to conduct fraudulent transactions. In order to find the offenders, teams of employees from the Mapusa police station assembled, and four people were found and apprehended. The defendants have been identified as Rahul Padloskar (38), of Panaji, Devanand Kavlekar (43) of Pilerne, Gautam Korgaonkar (38), and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The AAP and Congress are on a collision course again over the sharing of seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with the Arvind Kejriwal-led party on Tuesday announcing its MLA as the nominee of the INDIA alliance for the South Goa seat, currently represented by the Grand Old Party. Goa state Aam Aadmi Party president Amit Palekar said the party has decided to field Benaulim MLA Venzy Viegas from South Goa and sought to blame Congress for the apparent delay in picking a candidate. “The last meeting of the INDIA alliance was held 30 days back,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The INDIA block has collapsed in Goa, and people have lost confidence in the Congress, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its party MLA as the opposition alliance’s candidate from the South Goa Lok Sabha constituency. AAP’s state unit president Amit Palekar announced that Venzy Viegas, a legislator from the Benaulim constituency, is the nominee of the INDIA block and appealed to other parties in the Opposition to support him. Notably, South Goa, one of the two Lok Sabha seats in the coastal state, is currently represented by Congress…

The report stated that Seth provided clear and rational answers during the examination, displaying intact judgment, with no signs of psychotic or pervasive mood symptoms. It refuted claims of any active death wish or suicidal tendency reported by Seth. Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Suchana Seth, the CEO of an AI start-up accused of killing her four-year-old son, underwent a medical examination that revealed no signs of mental disorder or psychotic behavior, according to police reports presented in the Goa children’s court. The examination, conducted on February 2 at the Institute of Psychology and Human Behaviour, found no evidence of “psychopathology” or…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has asked Shripad Alias Paresh Sinai Sawardekar, the car driver involved in the horrific Banastari bridge accident case to approach the trial court for seeking permission to leave the state. As per the conditions of his bail he is not permitted to leave the state without the permission of the trial court. He had petitioned the High Court in this regards. “The Applicant is permitted to withdraw the present application and to approach the Trial Court for permission to leave the State of Goa. If such an application is filed,…