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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Crime Branch has registered an offence against 13 for their involvement in IPL betting racket. The racket was operating in close premises of Dynasty Vila No. 1, Vidya Enclave, Porvorim, Bardez Goa. The accused persons were caught red handed for while accepting bets on the on-going twenty – twenty IPL Cricket match played between Rajasthan Royal and Chennai Super Kings and seized from their possession cash of Rs. 38000. The police have seized 47 mobile phones, 1 laptops, 3LED TVs, 3net routers, 3 tata sky set-top boxes, one router modem and other gaming electrical accessories al…

Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: The accused Panaji MLA and Minister Babush Monserrate today has filed an application seeking permanent exemption from attending in the trial of rape case. As per information, the prosecution will reply on Monserrate’s exemption plea on next Friday. The Court will also expedite hearing from June and will accordingly hold 3 hearings per week. Monserrate was charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly raping a teenage girl in 2016. He is the first sitting minister in Goa to face charges under the stringent POCSO Act besides the charges of rape, wrongful…

*Demanding thorough Enquiry, Activists demand disqualification of Speaker Tawadkar Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: Opposition parties have demanded disqualification of thr Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar, who is also Canacona MLA, accusing his involvement in the illegal tree cutting jn the constituency. The large Logs consists of different Trees such as Teak, Matti, Nane besides a few other Jungle– Trees, most of which are already processed and the still others are under processing stages. According to the Carpentry Common Facility-Cum-Production Centre, Idhar-Loliem incharge the logs were brought to the unit some days ago, and forest officials gave him instructions to process the same. When…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: Stating that Janardhan Bhandari and Vikas Bhagat are telling blatant lies regarding the felled/trees wood being processed at the government owned carpentry, Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar said, a defamation will be filed against the duo for defaming his name. ‘The wood/trees they are pointing out are purchased through legitimate auctioning of the forest department for the use of houses being built under Shram-Dham. Tawadkar reacted on the allegations of his direct involvement of illegal tree felling and illegal processing at the government owned carpentry unit. Further posting a video in social media thursday night, Tawadkar said, ‘It is…

Goemkarponn Desk VASCO: Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar launches works on two important storm drains in Vasco city in the presence of MMC Chairperson Leo Rodrigues, City ward councillor Shami Salkar and others. Speaking to media later , Vasco MLA Daji Salkar said that these two storm drains were vital to cater to drainage systems and works on these storm drains would ensure that there will be no flooding in Vasco city. City ward councillor Shami Salkar said that a lot of people had been using plastic and dumping plastic bottles in the gutters that led to the choking of the…

Goemkarponn Desk VASCO: Tension flared up in Baina after several residents confronted electricity department workers over an outage for over 6 hours, which was caused after some miscreants set ablaze some ‘underground’ power cables, which were in fact exposed in the open. The fire at the power cables was first noticed by locals at Tariwada-Baina at about 6.30 pm. The fire station and police were alerted and a fire tender extinguished the fire. On account of the fire, power supply was disrupted to entire Baina and surrounding areas. While the electricity department was quick to restore power supply to areas…

Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: I appreciate that Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco has realised that BJP Government he is supporting in lieu of the IDC Chairmanship is not serious on health care of Goans. He must immediately withdraw his support to the Government for risking lives of people, demanded Congress General Secretary Moreno Rebelo. Reacting to the statement made by Curtorim Independent MLA, Moreno Rebelo alleged that Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco woke up from his deep slumber after Congress Party launched protests against Sewage Tanker Mafia in Goa. This is nothing but a publicity stunt of Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco to show his…