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Gold importers from the world’s second biggest gold consumer need to pay basic customs duty and Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC). The Centre has allowed its central bank to import gold without paying import levies, the government said in a notification issued late on Tuesday. Gold importers from the world’s second biggest gold consumer need to pay basic customs duty and Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC). As of September 2023, the Reserve Bank of India held 800.79 metric tonnes of gold, including gold deposits of 39.89 tonnes. Of that, 388.06 tonnes is held overseas and 372.84 tonnes is…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: SGPDA today has decided to shut operations of wholesale fish market to facilitate construction of new market complex phase 2. The SGPDA is considering to shift the current market to Verna IDC. “SGPDA will have to halt operations of wholesale fish market to hand over the land to GSIDC for 2nd phase construction,” said SGPDA Chairman Daji Salkar. He further said that they are planning to shift the market activities to Verna IDC and have asked GSIDC to complete the market within 6 months. “There is no better place than Verna IDC for this shiting for market…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: The Goa SCPCR, committed to the welfare and rights of children, today recommended a crucial directive to the Directorate of Education, Government of Goa, prohibiting the engagement of children in selling raffles and lotteries for school fundraising activities. This significant decision comes after numerous complaints were reported by concerned parents and educators, highlighting the coercive nature of these practices where children are coerced into selling raffles and lotteries, often with assigned sales targets. Such activities not only subject children to undue pressure and humiliation when they fail to meet these targets but also expose them to significant…

NEW DELHI: Visiting New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has cast doubt on the “potential” Indian link to the killing of Canada-based Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. As a member of the Five-Eyes intelligence alliance, comprising the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, New Zealand received intel related to the Nijjar case last year before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicised allegations linking his death to India. Peters, currently on a four-day visit to India, assumed office as Deputy Prime Minister after Centre-Right parties triumphed over the Left-leaning Labour Party in New Zealand’s last November elections. Peters, who is also…

BENGALURU: The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday detained one person for questioning in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast case. The suspect, identified as Shabbir, belongs to Cowl Bazaar area in Ballari. The probe agency suspects Shabbir of having knowledge about the blast and detained him on the basis of his recent travel history. Last week the NIA and the Central Crime Branch detained a cloth merchant from Kaul Bazaar in Ballari and a PFI cadre in their joint investigation in the blast case. The teams suspect that one of the two detainees, who was an active member of the banned Popular…

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the war. Putin, speaking just days before a March 15-17 election which is certain to give him another six years in power, said the nuclear war scenario was not “rushing” up and he saw no need for the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. “From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready,” Putin, 71, told Rossiya-1 television and news agency RIA in response…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha today said that he was confidence of winning the South Goa Lok Sabha seat if he was nominated by Congress again. “I am confident of a win in South Goa Lok Sabha polls if Congress nominated me as South Goa,” said Sardinha. Sardinha also indicated that Sardesai didn’t work for him in the last Lok Sabha polls as well, and therefore his statement didn’t hold any relevance. “Ask him (Sardesai) if he supported me during the previous Lok Sabha polls,” Sardinha said. “I have no doubt, people from Fatorda will support me…