THURSDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2026

Benaulim WTP under construction, but garbage already raising a stink

A wet waste segregation and treatment plant is being built just behind the Benaulim panchayat ghar. The plant has only reached the plinth beam stage, but garbage is found daily stacked against the gate of the plant creating a stink in the middle of a residential area. It was wrong to build such a facility in the village in the first place and what is compounding the problem is the wet garbage dumped here. May I request the panchayat to get it removed at the earliest as it poses health risk to the general public visiting the VP building daily. 

Vinay Dwivedi, Benaulim

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Gross injustice to bank customers

SRIDHAR D’IYER , Caranzalem
Published Feb 23, 2022, 9:53 PM IST
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Banks offer various loans (home, education, vehicle business, personal, gold, and so forth) at rates (fixed, floating) between 6.7 and 20%. The interest that the depositors obtain from the banks is taxed as ‘income’ and if we have a loan, we pay more money to the bank. For example, on a savings account of Rs 3 lakhs at a nominal rate of 4% a customer gets Rs 12k per year as interest and of this Rs 10k is tax exempted. On the balance of Rs 2k which is an ‘income,’ Rs.400 is…

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