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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said that all the accused persons, including contractors, in the road accident that claimed four lives, will be prosecuted. Four Bihar labourers were killed and four others injured after a bus rammed into their hutments along the roadside at Verna Industrial estate in the coastal state on Saturday night. CM Sawant said: “The accident at Verna Industrial estate causing death and injuries is unfortunate. The procedure has been started to prosecute the driver of the bus who drove under the influence of alcohol, along with the contractor and subcontractors who…

KOLKATA: Severe cyclone Remal, which crossed Bangladesh and the adjoining West Bengal coast on Sunday night, left a trail of destruction in three coastal districts of the eastern Indian state, killing two people and displacing around 200,000 people. One Md Sajid, 50, was killed when a concrete chunk fell on him at Entally in Kolkata as the storm battered the region with winds speeding up to 110-120 km per hour and reaching up to 135 km per hour when the landfall started around 9:30pm. An 80-year-old woman identified as Renuka Mondal died at Frazerganj in South 24 Parganas when an…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI/MARGAO: North and South Goa district Magistrate have issued orders prohibited swimming in waterfalls, abandoned quarries, rivers, lakes and other water bodies until further orders in the jurisdiction of North and South Goa District. Sunday marks the official start of the order, which will be in effect for 60 days unless it is revoked before then. The North and South district Magistrate took note of the drowning incidents that have been reported in the past in waterfalls, abandoned quarries, rivers, lakes, and other water bodies in the North and South Goa District and issued an order under section…

New Delhi: The owner of a Delhi hospital where seven babies were killed in a fire has been arrested, the Delhi Police said. Another doctor who was on duty when the fire broke out has also been arrested. Dr Naveen Khichi, the owner of New Born Baby Care Hospital in East Delhi’s Vivek Vihar, had been on the run since Saturday night after the fire broke out. The police said he runs many other hospitals in Delhi. Dr Akash, 25, was the one who was on duty on Saturday night when the fire broke out. Oxygen cylinders kept in the…

Steve Jobs, according to his biography by Walter Isaacson, once vowed to launch a “thermonuclear war” on Google because he thought the latter’s mobile platform, Android, was a “stolen product”. Before Android, they worked closely together. Eric Schmidt, who served as Google’s Chairman, served on Apple Inc’s board. In a turn of events, he left the board because of the conflict between the iPhone and Android. This trend of switching between friendship and enmity has continued over the years; most recently, Bloomberg reported, quoting unnamed sources, that Apple was in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence into iPhones.It was…

NEW DELHI: Top leaders from parties in the opposition’s INDIA bloc will meet on June 1, the day when the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 will be held, according to reports. The meeting has been called to review the elections and also discuss the coalition’s future course of actions. The results of Lok Sabha elections will be declared on June 4. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), seeking a record third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has set a target of winning 400 seats this election. The ruling alliance is challenged by the opposition parties led by the Congress…

Bengaluru: India’s economy likely grew at its slowest pace in a year in the January-March quarter due to weak demand, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said the possibility of growth significantly surpassing their forecasts was low. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) unexpectedly grew by 8.4% in October-December compared to a year earlier, thanks to a sharp drop in subsidies which provided an artificial boost to net indirect taxes. But economic activity, as measured by gross value added (GVA), showed a more modest 6.5% expansion. Economists in the poll said that situation was unlikely to have been…