HEADLINES
🔹 GIDC, Centre to help Goa industries adopt e-commerce
🔹 Magical blooms of Malabar caper creeper light up Kaley
🔹 MD of milk producers’ union resigns
🔹 Pai Tiatrist auditorium of Margao Ravindra Bhavan set to reopen
🔹 International sex racket accused transferred Rs 21 cr outside India through hawala route
🔹 Goa’s nightingales nurse wound of unemployment at home
🔹 Goan sworn in as Swindon Mayor
🔹 CAG red-flags GU for non-utilisation of UGC funding
NEWS IN DETAIL
THE TIMES OF INDIA
🔸 GIDC, Centre to help Goa industries adopt e-commerce
Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) and the department of promotion of industry and internal trade are trying to convince Goan industrial units to adopt the Centre’s e-commerce platform to not only find new customers but also widen the supply chain. GIDC wants MSMEs and manufacturing units to use the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to create a digital presence so that the entire supply chain can be brought online, which in turn will improve logistics and competitiveness.
🔸 Magical blooms of Malabar caper creeper light up Kaley
Nature lovers recently witnessed the flowering of the Malabar caper creeper in the Vaghryagal hamlet of Kaley, a sight heightened in magic by the lushness of the forest. Kaley lies at the foothills of the Western Ghats and Vaghryagal has recorded the presence of tigers. However, haphazard mining threatens the area’s biodiversity. In the face of these environmental perils, Vaghryagal has a few patches brimming with natural wealth. A wildlifer, Suraj Malik, recently enjoyed the scene of the blossoming of the endemic creeper, whose scientific name is Capparis rheedii.
🔸 MD of milk producers’ union resigns
Yogesh Rane, managing director of the Goa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union resigned after serving for 17 months. Govt has extended the term of the committee of administrators’ till Oct 20.
THE NAVHIND TIMES
🔸 Pai Tiatrist auditorium of Margao Ravindra Bhavan set to reopen
The Pai Tiatrist auditorium of Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, which was kept shut for undertaking repair works, will be reopened on May 22.
HERALD
🔸 International sex racket accused transferred Rs 21 cr outside India through hawala route
Newton Muthuri Kimani, a Kenyan national arrested for alleged international prostitution racket at Siolim, transferred approximately Rs 21 crore outside the country through hawala transactions. Newton, who arrived in India on a student visa to pursue a degree in Pharmacy in 2018, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the offences of money laundering in December last year, after the police arrested the main accused, Dorcast Maria alias Isralite alias Dorcas Ayako Ouma also from Kenya in September last year, for running the international sex racket at Siolim.
🔸 Goa’s nightingales nurse wound of unemployment at home
A batch of 118 nurses, who completed their training at the Institute of Nursing Education, Bambolim, in November last year, find themselves in a dire situation. Despite signing a one-year bond agreement, these nurses are unemployed since December 2023, except for a two-month period, during which they were tasked with conducting surveys unrelated to their nursing duties.
THE GOAN
🔸 Goan sworn in as Swindon Mayor
In a major boost to the huge Goan community in Swindon-UK, Councillor Imtiyaz Shaikh (48) on Friday became Swindon’s first Indian and Goan Mayor of the Swindon Borough Council. Mayor Shaikh had previously served as Deputy Mayor and takes on the chains from outgoing Mayor of Swindon, Councillor Barbara Parry. Incidentally, his wife Adorabelle-Amaral Shaikh is also councillor at the Swindon Council.
🔸 CAG red-flags GU for non-utilisation of UGC funding
The Comptroller and Auditor General has redflagged the non-utilisation on time of grants approved by the University Grants Commission to the tune of Rs 77.34 lakh by Goa University. GU had released CAG audit of its accounts for 2021-22 in which this non-utilisation of Rs 77.34 lakh has been flagged.
