Held in AP, 2 accused in Usgao ATM theft case brought to Goa

Times of India | 13 hours ago | 16-09-2022 | 02:40 am

Ponda: Ponda police on Thursday nabbed two men from Bangladesh allegedly involved in the ATM robbery at Tisk-Usgao in Ponda on August 18. Gannavaram police from Andhra Pradesh’s (AP) Krishna district had arrested them and a Ponda police team brought them to Goa on Thursday. While AP police have arrested two, four others are still at large. Both accused have been remanded in five-day police custody by a Ponda court.Ponda DySP C L Patil said that the accused had told AP police that they had purchased gold of Rs 5 lakh with the money robbed from the ATM at Usgao. The gold is presently in the custody of AP police. The robbers had decamped with over Rs 13 lakh from the bank ATM machine.AP police said that the accused, Jahangir Islam, 32, and Shaikh Nadeem Khan, 52, both natives of Bangladesh, had had been living in Hubballi, Karnataka. “When we verified the CCTV footage from a Hubballi hotel, it was confirmed that they were the same men involved in the Usgao ATM robbery,” Patil said.A gang of six masked robbers had detached two ATMs of two different bank kiosks at Tisk-Usgao and decamped with them early August 18. Both the ATMs were later found abandoned at Piliyem-Dharbandora. The thieves could, however, rob the money from only one of the two ATMs.Another similar robbery attempt was made in Gannavaram. However, a police constable had foiled the robbery bid. The gang had even attacked the constable. The AP police succeeded in nabbing two of the six accused.

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Times of India | 5 days ago | 11-09-2022 | 09:35 am

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KERI: On the deep green hillsides of the Western Ghat forests at Nirankal, Ponda, specs of purple have begun to appear. This phenomenon is seen once every eight years — the blooming of the karvi flower, known botanically as strobilanthes callosa. In a week or two, the pink and white buds will be replaced by thick patches of purple, once the karvi is in full bloom. Found all along the Western Ghats, the strobilanthes callosa is a curious shrub, even for researchers. It flowers only once in its lifetime. Post-flowering, the plant is left laden with fruits which take a year to completely dry up. With the arrival of the next monsoon, the fruits fall to the ground, leaving behind seeds to germinate, for the next shrub, which will see a karvi blooming seven years later. “The shrub is unique as we see its mass flowering only after a period of eight years. In the past, the sticks of dried karvi shrub were used to build huts by locals and tribals, due to its elasticity. We will be able to enjoy karvi honey this year,” said Ramakant Gaonkar, 64, from Gothawada of Bethoda, Ponda. The karvi flower blooming results in its nectar being drawn for what is known by locals as karvi honey, which is more intense in colour and taste. It is when Gaonkar had gone to the forest to collect seasonal fruits and flowers for the matoli for Ganesh Chaturthi that he was surprised to see the karvi blooming. Karvi flowerThough the karvi had last bloomed along the Chorla Ghats, where the Goa-Karnataka-Maharashtra borders intersect, in 2016, within Goa’s borders, the flowering was seen last in September 2015. “Today, I got an opportunity to see karvi blooming after eight years. I had last witnessed it in September 2015 in Surla inside the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary,” said Datta Naik, a resident of Priol. At present, the hillsides at Nirankal have the dark stem of the karvi shrub heavily laden with large flower buds. Endemic to the Western Ghats, this particular species of karvi will be in full bloom by late September. There are other karvi species as well, which have a blooming cycle of up to twelve years. The present karvi blooms are expected to last till around early to mid-October. The karvi plant is usually found at a high altitude in the Western Ghats and is known to thrive where ample moisture is found in the soil. Research on the plant is still in its initial stages. While alive, the plant is known to be a habitat for Malabar pit vipers, bamboo pit vipers, green vine snakes among other snakes. Its leaves serve as food for grasshoppers and the Indian bison, and once dried up, ticks nest in hordes on the plants.

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Times of India | 1 week ago | 06-09-2022 | 04:40 pm

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PANAJI: Keen on reducing the use of plastic bags in their town, students of GVM's Utkarsh Vidyamandir, Ponda, came up with a novel idea. Middle and high school students brought in old t-shirts, dupattas and other good quality, unused cloth lying around their homes to school, and with a little help from their art and craft teacher, sewed them into sturdy bags, which they then distributed to shopkeepers in Ponda town. The school specially procured a sewing machine for the project, which art and craft teacher Xeersha Namshikar taught them how to use. And as part of their socially useful productive work (SUPW) subject, the youngsters were only too happy to try their hand at it. "The students stitched close to 200 cloth bags themselves, with little guidance. They would wait for their turn on the machine and would put up a fight if someone broke the queue. Some students were so impressed with the bags they had stitched that they wanted to take them home," Namshikar said. Determined to make it a fruitful learning experience, Namshikar painstakingly taught the students all they needed to know about sewing . When the students distributed the bags to shopkeepers in Ponda, they told them to ditch plastic bags and to instead hand these out to customers who showed up without their own shopping bags. "People don't bother to carry their own shopping bags and shopkeepers still freely give them polythene bags. I feel people should keep extra bags in their vehicles at least," said Class IX student Durva Bellekar. "Plastic is harmful to the environment and that's the reason we made the cloth bags and distributed them. I was happy to be make something useful out of stuff lying around the house and give back to society, and hopefully, lend a hand in reducing plastic pollution." School administrator Srabonee Thakar said she initiated the project to make the students socially aware and conscious about pollution caused by plastic, especially considering that the Goa government has banned certain types of the material. "Our education is not just restricted to the classroom but about contributing positively to society. These are lessons and values that will last them a lifetime," Thakar said.

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