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Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Rohan Naik (32) accused of murdering Santosh Rivankar (43) is remanded to 7 days Police Custody. According to Canacona Police Inspector Harish Raut Dessai, who is personally investigating the murder case, Naik who was arrested on Monday for the murder offence of Rivankar was produced at the court of JMFC–Canacona, who remanded the accused for seven days police custody. It may be recalled that Naik (resident of Partagal) who was assisting one of his friend for constructing a house in the neighbourhood of the deceased (on whose complain – the construction was sealed by Panchayat) at Potkem-Poinguinim,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A group of residents from Panaji have moved High Court of Bombay at Goa seeking its intervention for necessary directions to the State government and IPSCDL to put in place measures to mitigate dust pollution caused due to ongoing unplanned Smart City works. The petitioners have pleaded to install permanent real time Air Ambient Quality Monitoring Stations at all important locations in the city that will help ascertain the level of pollution. “Panaji’s dust pollution has gotten worse, and unforeseen Smart City projects have also caused problems. Additionally, the GSPCB has not given the problem any attention.…

Mumbai: Amid an outcry over its announcement of a ‘pure veg’ fleet, Zomato has said all its delivery partners will continue to wear red, rolling back its decision to introduce a green uniform for those delivering food to vegetarians under the new service. “While we are going to continue to have a fleet for vegetarians, we have decided to remove the on-ground segregation of this fleet on the ground using the colour green. All our riders – both our regular fleet, and our fleet for vegetarians, will wear the colour red,” Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal tweeted this morning. Mr Goyal…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: BJP leader Pramod Sawant has become the only BJP leader to complete five years (from two terms) as Chief Minister in Goa. Though BJP came to power in the year 2000, under the leadership of Manohar Parrikar, however, he could remain in the position only for 16 months. Subsequently, when the assembly was dissolved in 2002, Parrikar was caretaker Chief Minister for four months. In 2002, after a fresh assembly election, the BJP again came to power under the leadership of Parrikar, but he could remain in office for a mere 32 months as Congress ousted the…

New Delhi: Unilever has laid off 7,500 employees globally in a move to ‘accelerate its Growth Action Plan (GAP)’ on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The company plans to cut jobs worldwide, and expects the total restructuring costs to be about 1.2 per cent of its revenue over the next three years. “The proposed changes are expected to impact around 7,500 predominantly office-based roles globally, with total restructuring costs now anticipated to be around 1.2 per cent of Group turnover for the next three years (up from the around 1 per cent of Group turnover previously communicated),” said the company. The…

MUMBAI: The high visibility of structural demand and healthier corporate and bank balance sheets are likely to propel India’s growth going forward even as the global economy is losing steam, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) monthly bulletin released on Tuesday. The report states that high-frequency indicators point to a further levelling of growth in the global economy in the period going ahead. While business activity is showing some slender improvement in both advanced and emerging economies, external demand remains subdued amidst country-specific weaknesses, including in the property sector, and spiralling public debt. Labour markets remain resilient but…

MUMBAI: Airlines domiciled around India have survived due to Air India’s weakness, but the carrier now has an opportunity to reclaim the market from them and transform the country into a hub for travellers, said the airline’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson. “India, as a country, had 43 wide-body aircraft at the time of Air India’s privatisation, while Dubai had 250, Singapore had 150, and Qatar had 175. That highlights the subscale nature of Air India and the opportunity it has to grow,” Wilson said in his speech at the 45th anniversary celebrations of the chartered accountancy…