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Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Curti-Khandepar locals yesterday caught one truck while dumping garbage on the roadside of NH at Kerya and handed it over to Police. The locals now demanding with Panchayat to issue fines for truck driver for dumping garbage at Kerya-Khandepar. According to Rocky Dias, he, along with some locals, caught one truck while dumping garbage on the roadside. He said the roadside became a dumping ground for garbage because authorities failed to keep watch on garbage dump. He said after noticing one truck unloading waste yesterday, they called Panchayat staff and informed Police. Rocky Dias said it’s two…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa State Industries Association President has said that the Labour and Employment Minister Atanasio “Babush’ Monserrate appears to be in a hurry to revise minimum wages in the State to draw political mileage”. “Industry bodies have submitted a memorandum to the Minister and the Chief Minister to have a scientific and realistic approach for an increase in the wages,” said GSIA president Damodar Kochhar. He said that when minimum wages were revised to Rs. 307/- for unskilled workers in 2016, the Government, for the first time, introduced payment of Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) to take care…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The search operation for the 31-year-old Arthik Shukla, who drowned in the Dudh Sagar river Monday, continued for the entire day on Tuesday, but he could not be traced. The search continues for the third day on Wednesday. MLA Ganesh Gawkar also visited the Dudhsagar site. The Collem police officers, Fire Brigade and Navy team are conducting a search. Arthik Shukla (31) hails from Bhopal and is a data operator. It is learnt that he and a group of five, including his wife and one-year-old child, had arrived through the railway on Dudhsagar river yesterday evening and…

Goemkapronn desk MARGAO: Hitting out at the BJP government in Goa over the alleged murders in the state, Goa Forward Party president and MLA Vijai Sardesai on Tuesday said that if the situation is not brought under control then the people of Goa will be forced to leave the state and goons will settle here. Expressing unhappiness over the investigation into the alleged murder of BJP leader Sonali Phogat in Anjuna, Sardesai said that the police are still clueless about the motive for the murder. “Sonali Phogat’s family is claiming that it is a murder. Accused persons are arrested, but…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Trucks bringing Mines material from Karnataka are blamed for the traffic indiscipline resulting in mishaps along the narrow NH-66 road in Canacona. A Mining Truck bearing registration no. KA 04 AC 2842 is caught on the right side of the roadside trench (towards Margao) at Karmalghat. The loaded truck coming from Hospet (Karnataka) was reportedly attempting to overtake another loaded heavy vehicle at a slight right turn towards Margao, and instead, its right-side wheels went down roadside drainage trenches. The truck has been lying there for almost a week now, as vehicles coming down the Karmalghat…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: “Doctor of Forecasts Dr Pramod Sawant had forecasted former Minister Milind Naik was innocent, Siddhi Naik was drowned, Sonali Phogat had a heart attack & Mohammad Agha also drowned. He also forecasted Goa is 100 per cent Open Defecation Free & has 100 per cent Tap Water supply,” stated former Congress President Girish Chodankar. Reacting sharply to the Clean Chit given to the Cabinet Ministers by the Chief Minister on Illegal Land Grabbing, Corruption & Illegal Activities, Girish Chodankar chose sarcasm to taunt the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant. It was pure entertainment to Goans to listen…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Monday will hear the Petition filed by the Goa government challenging order of the Mapusa JMFC Court to send Curlie’s owner Edwin Nunes into judicial custody. High Court yesterday adjourned the Petition challenging the order of the Mapusa JMFC, sending Edwin Nunes, Rama Mandrekar and Dattaprasad Gaonkar into judicial custody. The owner of Curlies, who allegedly provided drugs to the two murder accused held in the Sonali Phogat case, and a drug peddler was arrested by the Anjuna Police. Presently Anjuna Police have sealed the first floor of Curlies…