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Team Goemkarponn QUEPEM: A 34-year-old man originally from Jharkhand was found dead inside his rented room in Quepem after reportedly remaining unwell for two days. According to police, Lalit Tigga, a native of Bagesara in Jharkhand and currently residing at Amona, Quepem, was brought dead to the Primary Health Centre (PHC), Quepem, by a 108 ambulance on April 29 at around 10.58 pm. During the inquiry, police learned from the deceased’s roommate, Praveen Tirki of Gumla, Jharkhand, that Lalit had been ill for the past two days and had stayed back from work. At around 8 pm, when Praveen returned…

Team Goemkarponn VASCO: An unidentified man aged between 35 and 40 years was found dead on the railway tracks at Vasco Railway Station late on Friday evening, police said. The incident came to light after the Deputy Station Manager of Vasco Railway Station informed the police at around 8.17 pm that a man was lying motionless in the middle of the track with severe injuries on several parts of his body. A police team immediately visited the spot and carried out the required inquest and unnatural death panchanama procedures. The body was later shifted to the South Goa District Hospital…

“Students are growing up in an environment where failure is portrayed not as a temporary setback but as personal collapse. A child preparing for NEET or JEE often sacrifices adolescence itself. Friendships shrink. Sleep disappears. Anxiety becomes routine. Families invest life savings into coaching centres that market success like a lottery ticket. When examinations are postponed, cancelled or surrounded by uncertainty, the emotional fallout is devastating because these students are conditioned to believe their entire future rests on a single result. The tragedy is not only that students are dying. The tragedy is that many no longer see alternatives beyond…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court has upheld recent amendments to Goa’s succession law that place a surviving husband or wife higher in the line of inheritance when a person dies without leaving a will. A Division Bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Ashish S. Chavan ruled that the amendments introduced in 2022 and 2023 to the Goa Succession, Special Notaries and Inventory Proceedings Act, 2012, are legally valid and do not violate constitutional guarantees of equality under Article 14. The Court held that the State Legislature had the authority to revise the order…

Team Goemkarponn OLD GOA: The Town and Country Planning Department has notified nearly four lakh square metres of land, including ecologically and archaeologically sensitive areas in Old Goa and St Cruz, as No Development Zone (NDZ), TCP Minister Vishwajit Rane announced on Friday. According to the minister, the notified areas include around 1.02 lakh square metres falling within the archaeological zone at Old Goa and approximately 3.37 lakh square metres of mangrove stretch extending from Four Pillars to St Cruz. The notification has been issued under sub-section (1) of Section 39 (A) of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act.…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: With the onset of the monsoon drawing near, the Health Department has issued a strong public appeal to prevent water stagnation and remain vigilant against dengue and chikungunya, warning that even small pockets of stagnant water can trigger mosquito breeding and increase the risk of outbreaks. As part of intensified preventive efforts across Goa, health authorities have launched fogging operations, surveillance drives, awareness campaigns, and door-to-door inspections aimed at containing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases before the rains intensify. Dr. Vidya Parab, Health Officer at Urban Health Centre Panaji, stressed that mosquitoes responsible for spreading dengue do…

New Delhi: India’s foreign exchange reserves registered a strong recovery during the week ending May 8, rising by USD 6.295 billion to reach USD 696.988 billion, according to fresh data released by the Reserve Bank of India on Friday. The sharp increase comes after the reserves had declined by USD 7.794 billion in the previous reporting week amid volatility in global financial markets and pressure on the rupee. India’s forex reserves had earlier touched a record high of USD 728.494 billion in late February before geopolitical tensions in West Asia triggered fluctuations in crude oil prices and increased pressure on…