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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Google has added eight Indian languages, including Konkani, to Google Translate as the internet firm continues to increase the number of regional languages supported by its online multilingual translation service. The new Indian languages introduced include Assamese, Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Meiteilon (Manipuri), and Mizo. The announcement was made at the annual Google conference I/O that began late on Wednesday night. The addition of the eight Indian languages is part of a more significant update wherein 24 languages have been added to Google Translate, which now supports a total of 133 languages used around the globe.…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Three, including one lady passenger, driver, and cleaner, have been injured in Volvo and passenger bus accident at GVM circle today morning at around 11 am. According to Ponda Police, the Volvo bus was traveling from Pune towards Margao while the local passenger bus was moving from Ponda towards Farmagudi and when it reached GVM circle both buses dashed each other. The injured driver of the local passenger bus from Velguem Bicholim was shifted to GMC while the lady passenger and cleaner were admitted to Ponda Sub District Hospital. It may be recalled that for past many…

GOEMKARPONN IMPACT: Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and Art and Culture minister Govind Gaude have taken cognisance of the non-functioning of air-conditioning plant at Ravindra Bhavan Baina (RBB). RBB chairman says soon the issue will be sorted out. Reacting to the news reports which appeared in Goemkarponn, Jayant Jadhav, chairman of Ravindra Bhavan Baina has stated that the file related to the Ravindra Bhavan Baina Air conditioning plant has been put up with the executive engineer PWD (Margao) for consideration. The same issue has been brought to the notice of Art and Culture minister Govind Gaude and…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Chicalim panchayat secretary filed a counter-complaint with the Vasco police on Wednesday night against four panch members for allegedly defaming him. A counter-complaint against four panch members, including the lady panch member of Chicalim panchayat, has been filed by the Chicalim panchayat secretary in Vasco police station for reportedly defaming his image in print and electronic media recently. It may be recalled that a few days ago some panch members from the Chicalim panchayat had filed a police complaint against the village panchayat secretary for allegedly verbally abusing one of the lady panch members in the Panchayat.…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Team of Vasco police has already left for Bihar after identifying the person connected with the sexual assault on a minor girl. According to reliable sources from the police, a team of one police sub-inspector and two police constables have already left for Bihar state on Wednesday afternoon to search and arrest the person allegedly involved in the sexual assault case over a minor girl from Vasco. It may be recalled that Vasco police registered an offense against an unknown person on Wednesday under section 376 of IPC and section 8 of the POCSO act. Now that…

Kiran Tare / India Today MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on May 9 cancelled the clearance given by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) to doubling of the railway track between Tinaighat-Castle Rock in Karnataka and Kulem in Goa. The railway line is proposed to pass through 120.8 hectares of protected area in the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa and 10.4 hectares in Karnataka’s Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary. The ruling is based on the recommendations of a Central Empowered Committee (CEC) that the SC had appointed in September 2020 on this contentious matter after NGO Goa Foundation filed a petition seeking scrapping…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Against Corruption (GAC) has demanded the immediate demolition by the Calangute Panchayat of an illegal structure on the Calangute beach, which has flouted all Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms and GCZMA rules. According to social activist Minakshi Shinde and convenor of the GAC, the Calangute Panchayat had issued a notice for demolition of the structure, dated 22nd March 2021, which was signed by the Calangute VP secretary Raghuvir D. Bagkar, revoking the construction licenses granted earlier in the year 2019 for House No. 5/154 situated in Survey No. 176/16-B on the beachfront. The construction license…