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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: All KTC bus drivers will be tested for alcohol consumption on all bus stands across the state with alcometers from next week. Stand in-charge at each of the bus stands will be responsible for checking if the drivers are drunk. Drivers with history of alcohol consumption will be checked on priority. There will be no question of any permissible limit, any amount of alcohol consumption detected will make the drivers liable for action, informed KTC MD Derrick Pereira. He also informed that there is severe shortage of buses as well as staff in KTC. The corporation is…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Indian Passports of 114 persons from Goa have been revoked by the Regional Passport Office(RPO), Panaji in last 3 years due to possession of Bilhete de Identidade(BI) of Portugal. The Lok Sabha was told in a reply by MoS for External Affairs V Muraleedharan to the question raised by South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha. RPO, Panaji has received more than 2,000 applications during the last 3 years for surrender of Indian passports consequent upon acquisition of Portuguese nationality, the reply further informed. On the query raised by Sardinha as to whether the matter has been raised with…

Goemkarponn Desk The Goa Police has arrested a Russian national for allegedly smuggling narcotics, and seized contraband worth over Rs 1 crore in the international market. The accused, whose identity was not revealed as police said that could hamper further investigations, was arrested from North Goa’s Morjim in an early morning raid after the anti-narcotics cell (ANC) received a tip-off. The seized narcotics included hydroponic weed,“We had been tracking him for the past three months. We would have got him two months ago, but on that day, our honourable PM was here (in Goa), and all of us were deployed…

Goemkarponn Desk CORLIM: Power Shutdown is arranged on Dec 17 from 8 am to 5 pm on 11KV Dhulapi, Khumbharjua, St. Estevam, Diwar, New Industrial & Molar feeder to carry out transformer maintenance works. Power supply to Chorao, Diwar,Kumbharjua, New Industrial Estate at Corlim etc will be affected due to the planned shut down.

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: ‘Elected representatives and People of Loliem-Polem in general should take up the issue of ‘Film City’ in their stride and hold discussion with the 200-odd residents opposed to non-polluting projects in the village of Loliem-Polem understand their concerns, resolve them and move ahead’, Speaker and Canacona MLA Ramesh Tawadkar said. Speaker and Canacona MLA Ramesh Tawadkar was speaking after laying a Foundation stone for the Water Pipeline Project at Peddem-Loliem in Canacona taluka on Friday. Tawadkar laid the foundation stone for commencing the works of the water pipeline project at Peddem Loliem, Canacona. The project has a…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Ministry of Civil Aviation has initiated measures to decongest Dabolim Airport along with 15 other airports in the country. According to MoCA, 10 airports including Goa besides 6 metro City airports are facing congestion. Enabling DigiYatra App, deployment of additional manpower, use of count meter for crowd management are some of the measures that will be deployed at the airports. The minister underscored the lack of infrastructure, inadequate X-ray baggage inspection systems (XBIS), inordinate bunching of flights in peak hours and inadequate manpower on the ground are the key reasons for congestion in Indian airports, which b……

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Environment Minister Alex Sequeira said that a private agency has expressed interest in investing into a system for beach shack sewerage management and government is in talks them. The agency will invest in pipelines, collection tanks etc and the shack operators will have to pay the agency as per usage. A meeting of the agency and the shack operators was held in this regards today. The agency has been asked by the govt to conduct a survey and study the ground realities in the coastal belt and give the shack operators association a proposal regarding sewage management…