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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…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has ruled that the permission granted to Mumbai based Spacebound Web Labs Pvt. Ltd. in 2022 to hold Sunburn EDM Festival was illegal and liable to be quashed and set aside. “It is declared that the permission dated 28.12.2022 issued to R-10 for holding the Sunburn music festival from 28th to 30th December 2022 was illegally issued and consequently, the said permission was illegal and liable to be quashed and set aside,” stated the Court order. The Court asked the State Government to immediately constitute a Joint Special Cell comprising…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa University organized the Inter-Collegiate Kabaddi Championship for Women 2023-24 on 14th December 2023 at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium, Goa University. P.E.S’s  S.R.S.N. College of Arts & Science, Farmagudi won Inter Collegiate Kabaddi Women Championship 2023-24 by defeating Vidya Prabodhini College of Commerce, Education, Computer and Management, Parvari by a score of 59-45. Earlier in the semis finals in the P.E. S’s S.R.S.N. College of Arts & Science, Farmagudi defeated Shree Mallikarjun & Shri.Chetan Manju Desai College of Arts and Commerce, Canacona by a score of 17-14 and Vidya Prabodhini College of Commerce, Education, Computer…