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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Police have fined a group of tourists from Hyderabad, Telangana, for consuming liquor in a public space at Miramar. The Police fined Rs 10,000 on charges of consuming liquor in a public place and littering the stretch of road with leftovers. The tourists had arrived in a tourist bus, which was parked at Miramar. Sources said the tourists were also made to clear the garbage. The Goa government has recently introduced very heavy fines for littering at tourist spots, driving and cooking on beaches, unauthorised ticketing, touting etc, under the provisions of the Goa Tourist Places…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) Supremo Manoj Parab today said that the state government must prepare a report and immediately take action against culprits responsible for illegal landfilling at Merces. “Illegal hill cutting and landfilling have been going on at Merces. The government has failed to protect Goan land,” said Parab. He further demanded state government must prepare a report and immediately take action against culprits responsible for illegal landfilling at Merces. “The surveyor who came today does not have the equipment for measuring this land at Merces; you require area survey machines and not measuring tapes,” he…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: The Moscow-Goa chartered flight that was diverted to Jamnagar on Monday night after an alleged bomb threat landed in Goa today afternoon. The flight took off from Jamnagar around 12.45 pm this afternoon and landed at Mormugao at 3.00 pm. The Jamnagar Collector had said that he alleged bomb threat onboard the Moscow-Goa chartered flight was a hoax call. The flight was diverted to Gujarat’s Jamnagar after Goa ATC followed an alleged bomb threat on Monday. Jamnagar Collector Saurabh Pardhi said a thorough search operation was conducted by National Security Guard (NSG), police and Bomb Disposal Squad…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: High School students of Shrishthal village were given orientation on classification and waste disposal under the Swachh Bharat Mission by Shrishthal Biodiversity management on Monday. According to sources, Shristhal, Panchayat, under the Directorate of Panchayat, organized a special program in the Panchayat hall, where Essay writing and Painting competitions were held for high school students in the panchayat hall. A special session was organized for various committee members and Self-Help group representatives working in the panchayat areas along with the student’s orientation of segregation/classification and disposal of Waste under the Swatch Bharat Mission. Sarpanch Sejal Gaonkar was…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar on Tuesday said that Vasco da Gama would be the first Municipal jurisdiction in Goa that would soon be free of advertising banners. Salkar was speaking to reporters after distributing sanction letters of Laadli Laxmi to beneficiaries in the presence of Vasco BJP Mandal President Deepak Naik, Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) Vice Chairperson Amay Chopdekar, Councillors Shami Salkar, Girish Borker and others. “We have seen banners put all over the city, and I also have been putting my banners. However, sometimes we have noticed that people put banners all over the place without…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that the chief wildlife warden of the state has issued a stop-work notice to the Karnataka government over the construction of Kalasa-Banduri dam project on Mahadayi river, which passes through a wildlife sanctuary. Sawant held a meeting of high-ranking officials and members of Mhadei Bachaao Abhiyan here on Monday evening to decide the future course of action in the water diversion issue. Goa and Karnataka are at loggerheads over the diversion of water from the Mahadayi river through the construction of dams by Karnataka on the river’s tributaries Kalasa and…