At least two cases of fraud and cheating have come to light last week where the culprits hail from Sattari.
In the first case, the Gaude husband-wife duo from the far east taluka of Goa have landed in the net of the Ponda police for allegedly cheating several people of lakhs of rupees they had taken from them on the pretext of selling plots of land and not delivering. The husband is an employee of the government working at the Goa Medical College.
In the second case, again involving a person hailing from Sattari, a government job racket is at the core of the crime. If Colvale police are to be believed, Amar Mandrekar (35) from Poriem whom they have arrested, defrauded a woman of several thousand rupees on the pretext of providing her niece a government job.
Mandrekar took Rs 20,000 from the woman claiming that it is required as a fee for a 'medical test' for the job. Colvale police are in the process of investigating if Mandrekar has duped others too based on information that he was luring people into parting with handsome amounts of money by claiming that he had good connections with senior politicians.
The heat is on: 2023
hottest year ever
It's not a novelty that the world seeing temperatures rising and that 'Climate Change' is real despite all the noise by the naysayers: 2023 has been the hottest year ever recorded.
The global average temperatures recorded in 2023 -- 14.98 °C -- was higher than the previous highest average annual temperature recorded in 2016 by 0.17°C.
This stark reality may not sink in the consciousness of the pro-development lobby but there is no denying the fact that unusual weather and climate phenomenon have hit home even here in Goa.
Rains in winter like we experienced earlier this week and last week, spells of hot weather around Christmas and New Year, so on and so forth.
You can live in denial for all you care but as the Scientific Community the world over has warned umpteen times, all the progress achieved by humankind aimed at improving life and life expectancy will be brought to naught by the looming threat of 'Climate Change' sooner than estimated.
Good luck to us!
If it was my child.......
Apparently an attempt to deflect blame and responsibility after the bizarre accident which claimed the young life of 21-year-old Ayush Halarnkar who fell with his bike into one of the pits dug for the ongoing smart city work, Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) Mayor Rohit Monserrate came up with a crass statement: "If it was my child, I would bury the contractor in the same pit."
Monserrate jr, may have the leeway to shirk responsibility with the alibi that the CCP he heads has been bypassed, possibly unjustifiably, in the execution of the 'smart city' projects through the creation of the special purpose vehicle -- Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Ltd (IPSCDL). But it beats us how he and his MLA-dad Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate, can wash their hands off all the mess in the city when both are members of the Board of Directors (BoD) of IPSCDL.
If the BoD is not in-charge and responsible for the actions of IPSCDL, who is? A ghost from Delhi?
Now cats brewing
discord with 'sasu'?
We've commonly heard umpteen stories of discord between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law but this one here in Goa takes the cake -- a police case against the mother-in-law for thrashing the pet cat of the daughter-in-law!
The incident reportedly occurred in the Silva Nagar locality of Ponda earlier this week where the daughter-in-law filed the police complaint accusing her mother-in-law of smashing the head of their Persian cat with a hard object and causing injuries. Ponda police have booked the mother-in-law under provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
What next? Fish in the aquarium?
