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Time of India
2 days ago
- General
- Time of India
N Goa ex-collector fails to reply to Shirgao stampede notice
Panaji: Except for the North Goa collector at the time, Sneha Gitte, all other officers who were issued a show-cause notice in connection with the Shirgao Jatra stampede have filed their replies. Six people were killed and 74 injured in the stampede. Recently, Gitte was transferred from Goa to Arunachal Pradesh. Goa chief secretary V Candavelou told TOI , 'Due to some reasons, Gitte sought time to reply.' On May 13, state govt issued show-cause notices to eight officials, including the district magistrate, North Goa SP, deputy collector of Bicholim, DySP of Bicholim, PIs of Bicholim and Mopa police stations, and panchayat secretary of Shirgao. These officials were on duty during the tragedy and have been transferred since. Chief minister Pramod Sawant, making the report of the fact-finding committee public, said the report collectively held the temple committee, district administration, district police, village panchayat, and crowd behaviour, particularly that of 'dhonds', responsible for the tragedy. Based on the preliminary inquiry, govt transferred Gitte, then North Goa SP Akshat Kaushal, Bicholim DySP Jivba Dalvi, Bicholim PI Dinesh Gadekar, and Bicholim deputy collector Bhimnath Khorjuvekar, with immediate effect. Three of the stampede victims — two women and a 16-year-old boy — were identified as 'dhonds', special devotees of the goddess. The stampede, perhaps the first in the post-Liberation history of Goa, occurred on the second day of the five-day jatra that began on May 3. The Shree Devi Lairai Devasthan committee said the state administration fell short in making the necessary arrangements for the jatra.
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
17 investors duped of 3cr in share fraud
Pune: The Samarth police are searching for a Narhe resident (61) and his woman assistant (40) from Pimple Saudagar on the charge of cheating 17 investors of Rs2.79 crore between 2020 and March this year by promising them handsome returns on investment in share trading. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now One of the investors, a 50-year-old housewife from Bhavani Peth, lodged a complaint with the police on Saturday night. According to the FIR, the duo took money from people in 2020 with the promise of handsome returns in a year. The investors invested by transferring money to their accounts or using UPI applications. However, after a year, the duo did not provide any returns. Senior inspector Uttam Gitte of Samarth police station told TOI, "For the next year, the duo kept making promises to the investors, saying they had some monetary issues due to Covid-19 lockdown." "After a year, the duo did not answer the phone calls of the investors and did not return the money," Gitte said.
Indian Express
27-04-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
After patient death ‘due to negligence' at Tripura's GBP Hospital, govt say doctor salaries to be tied to attendance
After a 23-year-old woman patient died at the state-run Govind Ballabh Pant (GBP) Hospital in Agartala, the Tripura government has said it will investigate the incident and take strict action if any truth is found in the allegations of negligence on the part of doctors. Puja Das, who was admitted with a stomach ache on Friday, died on the night of the same day, with her family alleging that no specialist doctor from the surgical department had come to visit her despite being called for several times throughout the day. Health Secretary Kiran Dinkarrao Gitte said on Saturday that the government would pay doctors and other staff members of GBP Hospital based on their biometric attendance from April onwards. 'We have made biometric attendance compulsory for the doctors and other staff members. Salaries of all the staff including doctors in the hospital would be made based on their biometric attendances from this month,' Gitte said while speaking to reporters at the Agartala Press Club. Earlier, Forest Minister Animesh Debbarma and MLA Ranjit Debbarma—both from the ruling BJP 's ally TIPRA Motha—expressed their anguish at the absence of senior doctors at the referral hospital during their visit. When asked about allegations raised by the minister and the legislator, the health secretary said that 'juniors' who had attained seniority were present during their visit to the hospital. Gitte also highlighted development plans in place for the hospital, including the setting up of a new ward for stroke patients and the implementation of telemedicine services. He added that a Rs 13-crore proposal for setting up a cath lab was approved and that a Rs 56-crore proposal to procure medical equipment was sent to the Centre.
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Tripura starts work on embankment repair
Agartala: Tripura govt has launched an extensive progarmme for repairing embankments and construction of drainage system worth Rs 150 crore across the state, taking account of last year's floods fury, water resources and PWD secretary Kiran Gitte said. "We have identified 43 critical locations across the state where urgent flood management work was required, and work has commenced, focusing on the embankment management to prevent flooding from river water and cleaning of all 12 rivers in Tripura to ensure free water flow. A total of 44 vulnerable embankment sites have been identified, and protection work has already commenced," Gitte said. He said CM Mank Saha has placed special emphasis on the construction of different embankments to reduce the catastrophic effects of floods. Recently, a high-level team of the state administration visited the flood-prone villages in south Tripura district & assured residents that flood management infrastructure projects in the area will be completed within three months.
