Range forest office Collem and Range Forest officer Ponda jointly conducted raid in Totodi village – Dharbandora and arrested six persons and seized 9 kg of red meat. Officials said initially the team arrested three and the others who fled the scene surrendered late night. Those arrested were – Sada Gaonkar (45), Geetesh Gaonkar (35), Bhanudas Gaudo (37), Rajeshwar Gaonkar (33), Suresh Gaonkar 53 and Madhu Gaudo (40). Officials said 3 kg meat was found from houses of three accused. Also, they said, weapons and bike used in the offence were recovered.
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PANJIM: After exposing fake beneficiaries of the Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCM) welfare fund, the Goa Forward Party today revealed part-II of the ‘Labour Gate Scam’, involving LabourNet company, which is already on Lokayukta radar. Addressing a press conference, GFP vice president Durgadas Kamat exposed how the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with LabourNet pvt firm was illegally extended in violation of the contract and in absence of approval from Labour Welfare Board and that an amount of Rs 2.54crore were paid. He said that the company was appointed on January 19, 2019 to mobilize, enrol and train the construction…
The State government has lifted the moratorium on credit societies for granting of gold loan. The notification issued by the government says that the, a ban on loan against gold was imposed vide circular read above due to various irregularities noticed generally across various credit societies. The notification says that the said ban was only an interim arrangement to stop the misuse. Gold security is supposed to be most sound collateral for any advance and such ban cannot be continued permanently which may further hamper the growth of credit societies in the State. “In view of the above, the Government…
The State government has made amendments to the Goa, Daman and Diu Excise Duty Rules, 1964, which brings out changes in the existing law. The notification issued by the Department of Finance says that no licence shall be granted to an applicant if the premises in which he proposes to open a liquor shop is situated within shortest accessible distance of one hundreds meters from an educational institution or a place of worship. It further says that no licence for wholesale and retail sale shall be granted in the same premises. Also, it says no licence shall be granted to…
Calangute police along with a team of Tamil Nadu police successfully arrested 20 accused involved in murder in Tamil Nadu and hiding in a hotel and apartment in Candolim. Calangute PI Nolasco Raposo informed that they received information that accused persons involved in Baluchetty Chatram PS, Kar kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu Crime No 6/2020 ws Arms Act and Crime No 1242/20 u/s 307 IPC r/w Arms Act are hiding in Candolim. Accordingly PI Raposo. PSI Sushant Sangodkar, PC 7055 Shashank Sakhalkar, PC 6515, and HC on ver Manoj Shinde visited at Candolim. PI Mani Maram Manava, Kanchipuram Tamili Nadu state,…
The deaths continued to be on cause of worry for the State government as nine more succumbed to the COVID19 even as the positive cases were 407 on Sunday. Goa also reported 537 recoveries. The deaths have reached 351. With todays cases, the Total confirmed cases are now 28429 while active cases are 5781. On Sunday there were total nine death’s, with 8 death’s at GMC and one death at ESI, Margao. Out of the 09 deaths, two death’s were within 12 hours of admission. Both deaths with no comorbidity were reported late, said GMC Dean Dr Shivanand Bandekar’s daily…
Right from day one we Goans are witness to utter Mismanagement of Covid situation in Goa. We had achieved the first Green status in the country for which our CM immediately took all the credit and throwing caution to wind, he along with his Quarantine Tourism partner turned us from Green to a Deathly Red within no time! The bungled up Covid SOPs that kept changing every other day to suit the whims and wishes of the CM and his coterie were actually aimed at money making opportunities under the cover of Corona. And while all this Utter Mismanagement was…