Digital Goa, June 7 – South District Police has claimed that the crime rate in South District has showed major decline till May 31 this year compared to the corresponding period last year. A total 359 crimes were reported in South District during last five months, which is 36 percent lower, as compared to 561 crimes reported last year during the same period. Heinous crimes also registered decline this year with 3 murders reported this year compared to 11 reported last year. However, there were equal number of 14 rapes reported both the years. The detection has also been 100 percent this year i ..read more

Digital Goa, June 7 – In a tragic incident a person from Surla died due to drowning at Bandhara at Ghadiwada, Surla yesterday evening. The deceased is identified as Pratap Amonkar.He had gone for a swim in the bandhara at Ghadiwado, Surla along with his friends. Pratap lost control and fell into the water. Friends accompanying him managed to pull him out of water. He was shifted to the hospital where he was declared brought dead. The post Man dies due to drowning at Surla Bandhara appeared first on digitalgoa ..read more

Digital Goa, Goa, June 7 – One Colvale State Central Jail inmate made unsuccessful attempt to escape from the jail. Inmate Pradeep Kharkho was caught by police personnel while he was trying to climb the prison compound wall. The post Colvale Jail inmate attempts to escape by climbing prison wall appeared first on digitalgoa ..read more

Digital Goa, June 7 – Three pimps were arrested and 2 victim girls from Nepal were rescued in a raid by Crime Branch at a guest house in Nerul. The accused were identified as 37-year-old Lal Vishan Das Sarai residing at Verem and a native of Ahemdabad, Gujarat, 25-year-old Suraj Sharma residing at Saligao and a native of Assam and 21-year-old Vishal Kumar Rathod living at Nerul, Goa and a native of Kannoj, Uttar Pradesh. They have been arrested for allegedly supplying the victim girls to the customers for the purpose of prostitution and they were found living on the earnings earned through pro ..read more

Digital Goa, June 7 – Mines Department today issued a corrigendum easing the restriction on number of trips per hour on village roads imposed on mining cargo transportation, from maximum of 20 trips per hour to 20 to 40 trips per hour. The upper limit of maximum of 160 trips per day has also been done away with. As per the memorandum issued yesterday, the number of trips will be staggered between 20 trips to 40 trips per hour depending on the traffic congestion on the roads. As per the earlier memorandum issued on April 5,2023, the number of trips per hour were restricted to 20, subject to max ..read more

Digital Goa, June 6- The deep depression over southeast and adjoining eastcentral Arabian Sea moved nearly northwards with a speed of 4 kmph during last 6 hours, intensified into a cyclonic storm “Biparjoy” (pronounced as “Biporjoy”) and lay centered at 1730 hours IST of today, the 06th June, 2023 over eastcentral and adjoining southeast Arabian Sea near latitude 12.1°N and longitude 66.0°E, about 920 km west-southwest of Goa, 1050 km southwest of Mumbai, 1130 km south-southwest of Porbandar and 1430 km south of Karachi. It is likely to move nearly northwards and intensify gradually into a sev ..read more

Digital Goa, June 6- Major fire broke out in a building housing few cloth stores near Menino hotel in Ponda today evening. Fire fighters have managed to bring the fire under control. Cause of fire is not yet known. The post Major fire breaks out at commercial area in Ponda; cloth shops gutted in fire appeared first on digitalgoa ..read more

Digital Goa, June 6- Sugar cane growers of Goa have demanded that the Goa govt should come clear on its stand over the status of Sanjeevani Sugar factory. General Body meeting of Sugar Cane growers of Goa will be held on June 25 on the backdrop of the crisis emerging out due to closure of the Sanjeevani Sugar factory. The meeting which is scheduled to be held after a gap of nearly 5 years is expected to be stormy. The post General body meeting of Sugar cane growers to be held on June 25 appeared first on digitalgoa ..read more

Digital Goa, June 7 – Citizens from remote areas of Sanguem, Quepem, Dharbandora etc have to go through hardships to get their Aadhar card updated as they have to travel to the lone center at Curchorem to get the updation done. Huge queues are witnessed outside this updation center with people standing in line from as early as 6.30 am. At times they are asked to make multiple trips to get the work, which effectively takes a few minutes done. The center is manned by only two staff. Due to this and as the work involves good connectivity, hardly 50 to 60 persons updation work gets done on a day w ..read more

Digital Goa, June 7 – Slurry generated by the bio-methanation plant at SGPDA retail market in Margao is being carelessly released into the fields near the plant. With the ensuring monsoons, this could lead to major health hazards. A worker at the plant informed that this was being done for over a month now as the tanker facility to dispose off the slurry was not available. Interestingly, last year also the plant was closed for over a month due to non availability of slurry transporting facility. When 5 TPD bio-methanation plant was started way back in November 2021 with much fanfare, the plan ..read more