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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Luizinho Faleiro on Tuesday resigned from the Rajya Sabha, citing personal reasons, three years and seven months ahead of his term. Faleiro has also tendered his resignation from the Trinamool Congress Party. Faleiro’s resignation has led to speculation about who would be Trinamool’s choice for the remainder of his term in the Upper House. Mamata Banerjee had offered Luizinho Faleiro a Rajya Sabha ticket to quit Congress and join the TMC. He was also made TMC vice president. Faleiro took oath as a Rajya Sabha member on November 29, 2021, after he was…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: North Goa SP Nidhin Valsan today said that Crime Branch has arrested 33 accused for running a Fake Amazon customer service centre and cheating customers from foreign countries. SP North said that the accused set up a fake call centre, and the callers impersonated themselves as the staff of Amazon Customer Service Centre and were receiving calls from Amazon customers from the USA enquiring about their queries regarding Amazon Purchases. “Further, they took details of the customers including personal and Bank details and thereafter, through their details, they cheated the customers by inducing customers to pay the…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said that he has taken the budget implementation ‘very strictly’ and will conduct a review of the same on the first Monday of every month. Sawant on Monday held a meeting with officials of government departments and asked them to set a date for the implementation of projects and schemes. “I held a meeting with all the secretaries on budget implementation. We have given a target to start the budget implementation. They will have to set the target date of implementation of schemes, laying foundation stones of projects, the inauguration…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address a public meeting at Ponda town in South Goa on April 16 as part of BJP’s campaign for the next year’s Lok Sabha elections, state BJP president Sadanand Shet Tanavade said on Monday. Shah will arrive in Goa from Maharashtra and address the meeting in Ponda town as part of the saffron outfit’s campaign for the 2024 general polls, he said. Tanavade was talking to reporters after a meeting of the state BJP core committee, which took stock of preparations for the poll rally. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, a core…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa unit BJP president Sadanand Shet Tanavade said they have guts to tell even the Karnataka media that the state government will not compromise on the Mhadei river issue. Tanavade said this when he was asked about Goa BJP leaders campaigning for Karnataka’s assembly election. “BJP is a national party, we have a system. During the assembly election in Goa, our ‘karyakartas’ from Karnataka came here. Even we go to Maharashtra and help our party to organise (elections). We go to neighbouring states,” he said. “When we take these responsibilities, it does not mean that we will…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: One hundred and forty tennis players across various age categories will clash at the ongoing TNS PG Tennis tournament, which got underway at the Panjim Gymkhana on Monday. The state-ranking tournament, which was inaugurated on Monday, is being held in collaboration with the Goa State Tennis Association and Panjim Gymkhana and matches spread across all the 11 categories will be held at the Gymkhana’s courts and the Tennis facility at Clube Tennis de Gaspar Dias in the state capital. According to the organisers, the tournament is an ideal platform for Tennis players to showcase their talent and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Amid the rising cases of COVID-19, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said that the Health Department will be doing random testing to identify emergency hotspots by monitoring the virus trends. “We will do random testing to identify emergency hotspots by monitoring the virus trends. We will also be ramping up testing and vaccination,” said Rane. He further said that Goa’s infrastructure is in place in case there is a sudden spike in cases in the state. “There is no need to panic, as the doctors are doing all it takes to ensure the matter is under control,” he…