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Team Goemkarponn MAPUSA: Mohammad Basheed Khan of Delhi, the fourth culprit in the gang that reportedly extorted Rs 30 lakh from a Mapusa businessman by posing as a Delhi Narcotic Bureau inspector, was taken into custody by Mapusa police. After learning that the accused was about to depart the nation and go abroad, Mapusa police set up a trap in Delhi and took him into custody. After being taken to Goa, he was arrested and remanded to police detention for five days by a Mapusa court. In this case, police are searching for additional suspects. When suspects posing as representatives…

Team Goemkarponn MARGAO: The drivers of the Kadamba Transport Corporation’s (KTC) electric vehicle (EV) buses demonstrated in Margao, calling for a pay increase and permanent employment. To further this demand, they met with Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai, who promised to bring it up with the State administration and the KTC Chairman Tuenkar Ulhas. The government is being criticized by Sardesai for treating these bus drivers like bonded laborers, saying In addition to pointing out that these bus drivers have no employment perks, Sardesai criticized the government for treating them like bonded laborers and demanded that they be given job security.…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Minister for Art and Culture Govind Gaude stated that the Kala Academy task force, led by Vijay Kenkre, is a government-appointed committee with a specific mission and should have avoided speaking to the media. Gaude also stated that the task force must finish its work and submit the report to the government without making any “premature statements” in public. Gaude added that the Kala Academy remodeling was completed to the best of the abilities of the people assigned to it. “I actually acted in a play that was presented at the opening of the renovated Kala Academy,”…

New Delhi: Shooters who fired rounds at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique sourced firearms from Rajasthan and stayed in a room in Patel Chawl of Kurla area in Mumbai. It was also revealed that the accused had practiced firing shots in September. The accused had searched for the room they stayed in on the internet and had finalised the same via a broker, who was identified as Abbas Sheikh. During interrogations, it was also revealed that two of the accused – Ram Kanoujia and Bhagwat Singh Om Singh, had travelled to Udaipur in July…

Bengaluru: Heavy, constant downpour over the past three days has left Bengaluru paralysed. The flooding has thrown public life into disarray and ruling and opposition parties are trading barbs over the handling of the flood situation in India’s Silicon Valley. Topping the list was the major tragedy in North Bengaluru’s Babusapalya where an under-construction building collapsed, leading to 21 labourers being trapped under the debris. Five people have died while five others have been injured. Rescue operation is underway to rescue trapped workers. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar visited the building collapse site late on Tuesday night. Those who…

New Delhi: A total of 197 trains have been cancelled and educational institutes have been closed in vulnerable parts of West Bengal and Odisha as the two states brace for the landfall of Cyclone Dana in the early hours of October 25. A depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm on Wednesday. It will cross Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Puri and Sagar Island in the early hours of October 25 with a wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph, the Met Office said. Advising fishermen not to venture into the sea from October…

New Delhi: India head coach Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday threw his weight behind under-fire batter KL Rahul, saying it’s the team management’s opinion that matters and not the criticism that he is facing on social media. Rahul was dismissed for a duck in the first innings of the opening Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru and made 12 in the second essay as the hosts lost the game by eight wickets. But it appears Gambhir is ready to give him a long rope. “Social media does not matter one bit. What the team management and leadership group thinks is very…