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Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has directed Margao Municipal Council (MMC) Chief Officer to be present before the member secretary on December 1 inorder to show cause for failing to directions w.r.t inspection of the discharge of digested slurry Into the fields of the 5TPD Bio Methanation plant at SGPDA market. On December 1, the regulator ordered the chief officer to stay in front of the board and requested an explanation for why he shouldn’t face appropriate legal consequences for disobeying its directive. During the inspection, according to GSPCB member secretary Sanjeev Joglekar, it was discovered…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that people should not oppose projects “unnecessarily’. “People should not oppose projects “unnecessarily and not to create any hindrance to development works,” said Sawant. He further said that building a marina project is preferable to building a port in the state. “Yes, it is necessary to maintain and safeguard our lovely towns and state, but it is also necessary to carry out development projects,” he added. CM said that although he believes that opposing anything and everything is incorrect, we do accept constructive criticism. Sawant also expressed confidence that state will win…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar said that his department has not decided to cut off connections due to a rise in household demand. “Power department has not taken any decision to disconnect power connections because of increase in the load by households. Department has started working on other power infrastructure projects, such as underground cabling, in each of the 40 Assembly constituencies,” said Dhavalikar. He further said that the only thing we ask is that people notify the power department of the true load that each household is using. “Other than the fees for the three-phase connection, you…

Goemkarponn desk AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Titans on Monday appointed Shubman Gill as their captain for the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) following Hardik Pandya’s decision to move back to Mumbai Indians. The Gujarat Titans will receive Rs 15 crore from MI for the all-cash trade deal apart from a hefty undisclosed transfer fee, a part of which will also go to the cricketer. Once Pandya’s exit was sure, 24-year-old opener Gill was an obvious captaincy choice, having got the coveted ‘orange cap’ in the last season with 890 runs, second to only Virat Kohli’s all-time record of 973.…

Goemkarponn desk MUMBAI: Australia has made wholesale changes to the T20 squad in India as selectors cycle through options for the remaining three matches of the five-game series. World Cup winners Steve Smith and Adam Zampa are understood to have already flown home ahead of tonight’s third match in Guwahati in India’s north-east, while Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Sean Abbott will all return tomorrow. Jetting in as reinforcements are ‘keeper-batter Josh Phillippe and big-hitter Ben McDermott, who have already joined the squad and are available for tonight’s third T20. NSW pair Ben Dwarshuis and spinner Chris Green…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Sreenath, a documentary maker, and Archana Ravi, an illustrator, both from Kerala, were detained at Panaji Police Station in Goa for an hour due to their possession of a meme criticising the screening of the Hindutva propaganda movie “The Kerala Story” at the International Film Festival of India on Monday, November 27. Carrying a paper displaying the meme with the caption “Sudipto Sen: The Kerala Story, Source: Trust me bro!” the duo was also distributing a fackect containing debunked claims about the movie. These claims had been widely fact-checked and proven false. Sreekanth said to Maktoob, “They…

Following FC Goa’s 1-0 win over Jamshedpur FC at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao on Monday, the home side’s head coach Manolo Marquez said that they need to improve in a lot of areas. Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: After FC Goa’s 1-0 win over Jamshedpur FC at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao on Monday, the home side’s head coach Manolo Marquez said that they need to improve in a lot of areas. Speaking at a post-match press conference, the head coach said that he was not happy even after bagging three points as his side did not put up…