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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: In a significant directive to the Directorate of Social Welfare the State Commissioner for persons with Disabilities Guruprasad R. Pawaskar addressed the urgent need to revise the Dayanand Social Security Scheme. This action comes in response to numerous appeals from persons with disabilities and parents of children with special needs, who have raised concerns about no increment of pension benefits over the past several years. The Dayanand Social Security Scheme, notified by the Directorate of Social Welfare in 2002 and amended in 2013, currently provides the following pensions:₹2,000 per month for persons with less than 90% disability,₹2,500…

New Delhi: The government has opted to not cancel the medical entrance examination NEET, despite a raging controversy and an ongoing investigation of the paper being leaked a day before the exam. Explaining their stand, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the leak affected only a limited number of students, contrasting sharply with previous incidents in 2004 and 2015 where broader leaks led to exam cancellations. He said that cancelling the exam would affect lakhs of students who cleared the examination rightfully. He also said that the case is being heard by the Supreme Court, and any decision taken by…

Hassan: Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader Suraj Revanna– brother of Prajwal Revanna who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women–has accused a party worker and his kin face of attempting to extort money from him by threatening with a false sexual assault case of sexual assault in Karnataka’s Hassan. The complaint was filed by Suraj Revanna’s lose aide Shivakumar on Friday against a JD(S) named Chethan KS and his brother-in-law alleging that they demanded Rs 5 crore by threatening to lodge a false case of sexual assault against MLC Suraj Revanna if their demands were not met. Meanwhile, Chethan too lodged…

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…