The State government has made amendments to the Goa, Daman and Diu Excise Duty Rules, 1964, which brings out changes in the existing law. The notification issued by the Department of Finance says that no licence shall be granted to an applicant if the premises in which he proposes to open a liquor shop is situated within shortest accessible distance of one hundreds meters from an educational institution or a place of worship. It further says that no licence for wholesale and retail sale shall be granted in the same premises. Also, it says no licence shall be granted to…
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Calangute police along with a team of Tamil Nadu police successfully arrested 20 accused involved in murder in Tamil Nadu and hiding in a hotel and apartment in Candolim. Calangute PI Nolasco Raposo informed that they received information that accused persons involved in Baluchetty Chatram PS, Kar kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu Crime No 6/2020 ws Arms Act and Crime No 1242/20 u/s 307 IPC r/w Arms Act are hiding in Candolim. Accordingly PI Raposo. PSI Sushant Sangodkar, PC 7055 Shashank Sakhalkar, PC 6515, and HC on ver Manoj Shinde visited at Candolim. PI Mani Maram Manava, Kanchipuram Tamili Nadu state,…
The deaths continued to be on cause of worry for the State government as nine more succumbed to the COVID19 even as the positive cases were 407 on Sunday. Goa also reported 537 recoveries. The deaths have reached 351. With todays cases, the Total confirmed cases are now 28429 while active cases are 5781. On Sunday there were total nine death’s, with 8 death’s at GMC and one death at ESI, Margao. Out of the 09 deaths, two death’s were within 12 hours of admission. Both deaths with no comorbidity were reported late, said GMC Dean Dr Shivanand Bandekar’s daily…
Right from day one we Goans are witness to utter Mismanagement of Covid situation in Goa. We had achieved the first Green status in the country for which our CM immediately took all the credit and throwing caution to wind, he along with his Quarantine Tourism partner turned us from Green to a Deathly Red within no time! The bungled up Covid SOPs that kept changing every other day to suit the whims and wishes of the CM and his coterie were actually aimed at money making opportunities under the cover of Corona. And while all this Utter Mismanagement was…
Margao – Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat said that the BJP Government had come to power in 2012 by misleading the people & grabbed power undemocratically in 2017. Today, they have failed on all fronts and Goa is pushed into bankruptcy. “I am confident that the insensitive & anti-people BJP government will not even get double digit MLA’ s elected in 2022,” claimed CLP leader Digambar Kamat. Digambar Kamat appealed to all block presidents to work with responsibility for people and build up Congress party by maintaining complete discipline. The Congress Party is the only alternative to put the economy…
In what to be a major setback to the government employees, the Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has grant his assent to the Goa (Regulation of House Building Advance) Ordinance, 2020 and also taken away rights of the employees to challenge the decision in the Court of law. The ordinance had drawn wide-spread criticism throughout State, which abolishes the existing House Building Advance Scheme. The effect of the abolition would be that every beneficiary of HBA would be charged interest at the prevailing bank rate on and from the appointed date and the Government shall not be liable to pay any…
Panjim: The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) today welcomed the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) direction to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to lay down guidelines for disposal of cigarette and bidi butts within three months claiming that it will ensure the biggest threat of safeguarding environment against these non-biodegradable substances. A notice was issued on September 28, 2015, to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, CPCB, the Tobacco Board and other respondents following a petition filed on September 23, 2015,…