The Goa Cashew Manufacturers Association (GCMA) and the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industries (GCCI) have both written to the chief minister demanding that the 1% cess reintroduced on purchase and import of raw cashew within Goa be immediately rolled back. Over the last two decades, the number of cashew processing units in Goa have come down from 40 to just 8 to 10. With the cess reintroduced, cashew processing industry in Goa may completely shut, the GCMA has said.

With barely a week left for the four-month monsoon season to end, and an increase in rainfall activity likely next week, its early withdrawal cannot be forecast despite a phase of weak precipitation, an India meteorological department (IMD) source said.

After Collem police seized machinery, including a horizontal laterite cutting machine from a Tatodi-Dharbandora quarry site, the owner has moved court to get his machinery released. The machinery was allegedly used to extract and steal laterite stones illegally.

A local court on Friday granted the CBI permission to interrogate Sudhir Sangvan and Sukhwinder Singh — arrested in connection with the Sonali Phogat murder case — for 20 days in Colvale jail.