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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…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said 95 per cent of the accidents that occur during the nighttime are due to drunk driving. “95 per cent of the accidents that occur during the night time are due to drunk driving. Need strict rules to prevent it; Drunk and drive should stop in the state,” said CM Sawant. He further said that the fine for drunk driving is very lower, and the person under the influence of alcohol is left free. “We might think of getting amendments to the existing law to increase the fines for drunk and driving,”…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Sudden high voltage damages electrical appliances of many houses at Bandora. The incident occurred at 9.30 pm yesterday night. One house owner Anuradha Canconkar suffered the loss of Rs 5 lakh in fire due to high voltage. The house’s first floor caught fire; however, when the incident occurred, the Canconkar family had gone out for some work. Noticing the fire on the first floor, the neighbours alerted Canconkar s parents residing on the ground floor of the house, following which they rushed and doused the fire. The family said they suffered a loss of Rs 5 lakh…

Goemkarponn desk New Delhi: The Goa chapter of the Mining Engineers Association of India (MEAI) has urged the Centre to review and completely withdraw the 50 per cent export duty imposed on low-grade iron ore (below 58 per cent). The Association claimed that the imposition of export duty will have far-reaching ramifications not only on the iron ore mining industry in Goa but also on all the operations across the country producing low-grade iron ore. The MEAI-Goa chapter mentioned that the iron ore industry is already hit by several factors, including a four-year-long mining stoppage in the state leading to…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar, along with the Vasco BJP Mandal members, went on to collect soil from the vicinity of the worship places of all religions in the Vasco area. This soil will be used as a contribution to the upcoming new Parliament House in Delhi. On Friday morning Vasco MLA Salkar along with Vasco BJP Mandal president Deepak Naik and others, visited Shri Khapreshwar and Shri Bramhasthal temples collected a small amount of soil from the temple vicinity. The soil is believed to be offered as a contribution to the upcoming parliament House project in Delhi.…

Goemkapronn desk PANAJI: “During old times, the Gurukul system of education existed in India. Islamisation of the education system was seen as a means of uprooting this system, and with encouragement from Gandhiji, the efforts in that direction began much before Independence. From then on, the lessons on Akbar, Tipu Sultan, etc., were included in the school textbooks. Teaching these lessons goes on to date. In a nutshell, Islamisation of the field of education is going on under the guise of the word Secular. This is education jihad. Till such time as India does not become a Hindu Rashtra constitutionally,…