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Goemkarponn desk VERNA: Members and citizens of Quelossim-Cortalim Communidade submitted a memorandum to the Verna police station requesting to register an offence against three former Communidade members for threatening the United Forum of Cortalim-Quelossim members of dire consequences if the RTIs filed are not taken back. On Friday, a few members, including Pobre Vas of United Forum of Cortalim-Quelossim, submitted a memorandum to the Verna police inspector requesting him to register FIR against three former Communidade members for reportedly threatening the existing Communidade members of dire consequences if the filed RTIs and LAQs related to the Communidade land is not…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – In a freak accident involving a Bi-Cycle, Motorcycle and a Car, two people suffered serious injuries at Dapot-Maxem in Loliem on Saturday morning. According to sources, a Cyclist from Kajalkar-Loliem heading towards Canacona on NH-66 road reportedly took a sudden right -turn on reaching near Dapot grounds, while a motorcyclist riding KTM Duke Motorbike (no registration number on the Motorbike) coming from Karwar in the same direction, got his motorcycle rammed into the cycle from behind. The cyclist fell down, while the motorcyclist, due to the hit, went astray and hit an oncoming Baleno Car (GA-07L-3343)…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: Karnataka’s Tushar Suveer will take on Maharashtra’s Pranay Shettigar (3) in the Under 17 Boys singles finals at the Yonex-Sunrise All India Sub Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament 2022 at Goa. In the Under 17 semi-finals matches at Manohar Parrikar Indoor stadium, Navelim, on Friday, Tushar, who had earlier knocked out number four seed Dhruv Negi (Uttarakhand) caused yet another upset, defeating top seed Sanskar Saraswat (1), Rajasthan, 21-13, 21-18 to storm into the finals. In the other semis, Pranay was in complete control against Haryana boy Gagan, winning 21-11, 21-7. In the Under 17 Girls singles semi-finals,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Aam Aadmi Party’s General Secretary (Campaign) Francis Coelho exposed the PWD’s corruption and favouritism in allocating road repair works. Coelho claimed that road repair work worth 15 crore rupees was awarded without tender in Panaji and Ponda to one family of contractors from Kerala. Coelho said that Clause 2.2 of the PWD manual for emergency works was misused, even though only Rs. 50 lakhs worth of work was required to be completed urgently, and an amount of Rs. 12 crores was awarded under this Clause in October, with an additional Rs. 3 crore was awarded for…

Goemkarponn desk DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued summons to Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Netta D’Souza on a civil defamation suit filed by Union minister Smriti Irani seeking damages of over Rs 2 crore for allegedly making baseless allegations against her and her daughter. Justice Mini Pushkarna directed the three Congress leaders to remove tweets, retweets, posts, videos and photos from social media concerning the allegations against Irani, who is holding the Ministry of Women and Child portfolio Development and Ministry of Minority Affairs, and her daughter. The court said if the defendants fail to comply…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Excise Commissioner Narayan Gad today started hearing on the illegally obtained liquor licence by an upmarket ‘Silly Souls Café and Bar’ allegedly being run by Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani’s family at Bhouta Vaddo in Assagao Village. After hearing the complainant, Adv Aires Rodrigues and Adv. Benny Nazareth, representing the family of the liquor licence holder late Anthony D’Gama, the Excise Commissioner, framed two issues for determination, the first being whether the excise licence was obtained by submitting false and inadequate documents and by misrepresenting facts. The second issue was whether there…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Ponda police arrested today two persons, namely Yallaling S/o Bhomanna Togari, Age-31 yrs R/o C/o Vithal Ingle, Zingdimol, Curti, Ponda Goa, n/o Aremul, Muddebhil, Bijapur, Karnataka and Chandru s/o Veerappa Unki, age 45 yrs, R/o H. No.437/4, Haveli, Curti and native of Hubli inconnection with theft in house at Haveli, Curti. Police had registered a case upon the complaint of Smt. Suvarna w/o Sagar Kaisare, Age-35 yrs, residing Near Navjeevan Hospital, Haveli-Curti, Ponda who stated that on 24/07/2022 in between 14.00 hrs to 18.00 hrs at near Navjeevan Hospital, Haveli-Curti, Ponda Goa, some unknown culprit/s affected entry…