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Goenkarponn desk CANANCONA: In a bizarre turn of events, a Chatisgargh registration truck transporting Coal to Karnataka got struck on a slope at Maxem after hitting a roadside electric pole on NH66 past Sunday midnight, and Karnataka police found the truck driver over-run by a vehicle and lying dead on the road in Karwar district early Monday morning. A loaded truck (CG15 DF9816) transporting Coal from Goa to Karnataka hit a roadside electric pole sometime after 12.30 -1 am Sunday-Monday on the slight slope at Maxem (old one-way section at the end of MPCBR) on NH66 road. The truck came…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: In a quick action, firefighters were on their toes to ut off a raging fire across the Manohar Parrikar Canacona Bypass Road (MPCBR) at Talpona late Monday evening. The firefighters took over one and a half hours to douse off the fire raging amidst the dry Grass and almost engulfing so cashew trees on the eastern side of MPCBR near Talpona bridge. ‘It Negate-Fire in Fire-fighters terminology, but had already dangerous threatening more damages’, informed a source from Canacona fire station. Interestingly, Canacona PI Chandrakant Gawas informed the Fire Station, Canacona that there is some fire raging…

Goemkarpondesj Canacona: Canacona residents were crying foul over the narrow and treacherous NH-66 road Gulem-Karmalghat section; the first major calamity befell as two residents of Chapoli became the fatal victims as a rashly driven Inter-State Luxury Bus mauled motorcycle-borne husband-wife early Tuesday morning at Gulem-Canacona. GA 09 J 1225 (Hero Passion) Rider Paik Katu Wagonkar and pillion-rider his wife Priyanka Wagonkar, residents of Chapoli Canacona, expired, while the two injured are Sonal Pinto 32/M had a dislocation of Shoulder and an unknown Female of around 22 years of age having a severe head injury. Both injured bus passengers of the…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) this morning carried out searches at Ponda in a crackdown against the cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI). The places being searched include 12 in Bihar, two in Uttar Pradesh, one in Punjab’s Ludhiana and one in Goa. The agency is investigating the activities related to the PFI and has arrived at Darbhanga’s Urdu Market in Bihar. However, there is clarity on whether the NIA team seized some articles or arrested someone related to the case. This comes after Assam Police on April 8 arrested three leaders of the…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Forward Party (GFP) today alleged that the proposed “Mukhyamantri Gurudakshina Yojana” implemented for Teachers and employees of grant-in aid schools, wherein their salaries would be processed in online mode, is a major scam. In a press conference, GFP Vice President t Dilip Prabhudesai said that the scheme is a scam and questioned why favouritism is done towards Axis Bank, the nodal agency for implementation. “It is not a scheme but a scam. We question Dakshina to whom? Why to favour one private bank ( Axis Bank),” he said. The party has demanded complete transparency in…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: The eight Congress MLAs who jumped ship to the BJP have filed their replies before the Assembly Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar, seeking the dismissal of both petitions, arguing that the sitting MLAs did not file them. MLAs, in their replies, claimed that only sitting MLAs can file disqualification petitions and not those who are not Members of the House. MLAs also sought the rejection of two petitions because they are not filed by members of the legislative assembly (MLAs), and only MLAs can file disqualification petitions. The Speaker held a hearing in the disqualification petition filed by Domnic…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Bombay High Court at Goa has held that the Goa Value Added Tax (12th Amendment) Act, 2020, confronts the doctrine of Separation of Power and directed the Value Added Tax (VAT) department to allow a refund of excess tax collected. Mr Rohan Lobo, the petitioner challenged the non-implementation of the Court’s decisions in Writ Petition No.424 of 2018 and connected matters despite Special Leave Petitions against the same being dismissed by the Supreme Court on the specious plea that such decisions “stand nullified” or are “rendered ineffective” after the passage of the Goa Value Added Tax…