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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With just six months away from the forthcoming Assembly polls, the State Congress is still fighting who would be the next Pradesh president in the State. Present incumbent Girish Chodankar had resigned long ago as the president, but his resignation is yet to be accepted. It is now learnt that three of the five MLAs are in Delhi to meet the party high command and decide on the new party president. Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, Navelim MLA Luizinho Faleiro and Curtorim MLA Alexio Reginald Lourenco is in Delhi along with Girish Chodankar, South Goa MP Francis…

Goemkarponn desk Valpoi After ignoring several complaints and locals threatening aggressive action against the illegal laterite quarry in the Pissurlem area, the government authorities finally acted and raided the illegal operations. The massive action by revenue officials, police and mining dept, began on Thursday morning. According to the information received under this operation, one JCB machine, four power tillers, four generators and four laterite cutting machines have been seized. This is the first large-scale operation in the last several years. It is learned that there are about 40 illegal quarries in Pissurlem Panchayat area of ​​Sattari taluka. Many of them…

Goemkarponn desk PERNEM: Even as the COVID19 restrictions continue to be in place for travellers entering Goa, there are a few privileged people who continue to flout the rules, thanks to police support at the Patradevi check post. As per the SOPs, any person entering Goa must bring in a COVID19 negative certificate or have a fully vaccinated certificate, or get tested at the border at the cost of Rs 270. But a real example of how police officers at checkpoints release people of their choice can be seen here every day. Police have been deployed at Patradevi check post…

Valpoi. In Sattari taluka, there is a constant threat of wild animals to the plantations and crops; despite the government deciding on declaring some animals as vermis, nothing concrete has been done so far. The government has recently declared the wild boar as vermin, but destruction by the animals has not stopped. This morning, Arjun Desai’s cashew plantations at a 300 mtr from Mauxi village were severely damaged by a bison, and about 25 plants were destroyed. Arjun Desai has a cashew orchard about 300 meters from Mauxi village. He has been doing cashew plantation for the last four years.…

Goemkarponn desk Aam Aadmi Party has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for only announcing jumla after jumla in the run-up to the upcoming assembly elections in 2022. State Convenor Rahul Mhambre said that whether jobs or welfare schemes, CM Pramod Sawant has only made hollow announcements to mislead Goans while his corrupt Govt runs the economy and the state’s finances into the ground. On the promise of 10,000 jobs, Mhambre said that Sawant made this promise before every election since he became CM, but it turned out to be a Jumla each time. “BJP is worried after seeing the anti-incumbency…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: In a major success to Margao police in cracking the minor rape case, the police team nabbed the culprit, Rahim, from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Team of Margao police arrested Rahim Khan accused in minor girl rape case from Moradabad Uttar Pradesh. Rahim was absconding for many days. After getting reliable information about the accused Margao Police in charge, Margao town PSI Vibhavari Gaonkar and other staff went to Moradabad UP and arrested the accused. The team also completed the judicial process and started the return journey to Goa. The accused Rahim had given false assurances of getting…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Mapusa Special Court will on July 26 frame charges against former chief minister Digambar Kamat and ex PWD minister Churchill Alemao in infamous Louis Berger money laundering cases. When the matter came up for hearing today, the Court ordered both Kamat and Alemao to remain present in the court to respond to the charges ‘if they are charged’. Alemao on August 2015 was arrested by the Crime Branch of the Goa Police in connection with the Louis Berger bribery case, in which Kamat is also linked. Alemao, who police claim is one of the recipients of the…