All 8,000 candidates fail exam for accountant’s posts in Goa
Panaji: As many as 8,000 candidates appeared for an examination conducted for 80 posts of accountant in the Goa government, but all failed the test. The candidates, all graduates, needed to secure a minimum of 50 marks out of the total 100 to qualify but none got it, a senior official said on condition of anonymity. Goa’s director of accounts, in a notification issued on Tuesday, said none of the candidates, who appeared for the initial recruitment examination held on January 7 this year, secured the minimum qualifying marks required to get through. The directorate of accounts had advertised 80 posts of accountant in the common account cadre in October last year. The five-hour examination included a 100 marks paper on English, general knowledge and accounts-related questions, the official said. The successful candidates were supposed to go through a round of oral interview before the final selection. Aam Aadmi Party’s Goa general secretary Pradeep Padgaonkar criticised the delay in announcement of results and said the failing of all 8,000 candidates is a sad commentary on the “collapse” of the state’s education system. It is a “big shame” on the Goa University and the commerce colleges that produce these graduates, he added. (PTI)
Policemen save couple trapped in a fire at Paharganj
New Delhi: Delhi Police personnel saved the life of a couple who were trapped in a building at central Delhi’s Paharganj area where a fire broke out early on Wednesday morning. The local police received a call about the fire in a street of Chuna Mandi in Paharganj around 6 am, a senior police officer said. The fire had started at the first floor, trapping people who were on upper floors as they were sleeping at the time, the officer said. It was very difficult to go upstairs to save the trapped people. However, constables Manoj Kumar and Amit, with the help of other policemen, broke open the lock of an adjacent building to reach them, he said. A couple was seen crying for help, with the woman hanging from the grille of building’s balcony on second floor. “The staff without caring for their life, reached the balcony of the second floor, made a human chain to reach the parapet. The woman, who was about to fall down, was saved first and later her husband was also rescued in a similar fashion,” said the officer. One man who was also trapped in the fire had jumped down to save himself and was injured in the act. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, said the officer. (PTI)
Puppies died due to respiratory arrest: police
New Delhi: The seven puppies found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a residential complex in Dwarka died of respiratory arrest, a police official said today, citing the initial post-mortem report. Doctors said in the report that the puppies died “due to respiratory arrest due to hypodermic shock”. The report did not rule out the possibility of a foul play in the case as hypodermic shock is caused due to injecting. It also talked about about external lacerated injury (multiple injury marks) around abdominal region, including neck, the official said. Police said footage of all CCTV cameras installed in the complex have been analysed but none of the cameras covered the site of the incident. The site were the incident is believed to have happened is an isolated area near a community centre, the official said. (PTI)
Goa BJYM burns Sidhu’s effigy for hugging Pak Army chief
Panaji: The Goa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of BJP, on Wednesday burnt an effigy of Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan Army chief during his recent Islamabad visit. Sidhu hugged General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the swearing-in ceremony of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan last week. Around 50 workers from BJYM gathered outside the Congress office in Panaji, raised slogans against the cricketer-turned-politician and burnt his effigy. “The effigy was burnt to condemn the anti-nationalist act of Sidhu, who hugged Pakistan Army chief,” BJYM’s Goa unit general secretary Gajanan Tilve told reporters here. “This is the same Army chief who orders killing of our Indian soldiers along the border. How can any patriotic Indian hug him? Sidhu has clearly showed his anti-national mindset,” he added. Attending Imran Khan’s swearing-in ceremony when entire India was mourning the death of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was Sidhu’s personal decision, he said. “But we cannot tolerate his behaviour during the ceremony. If the Congress has even a little bit of patriotism in it, then the party should immediately remove him as Punjab minister,” Tilve said. (PTI)