Team Goemkarponn CANSAULIM: The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Cansaulim Group marked Founders Day with a heartfelt tribute and quiet celebration during its weekly AA meeting, commemorating the birth of the worldwide AA movement in June 1935. This year’s observance was special, as the group — one of the oldest in Goa — also recently celebrated its 48th anniversary on May 18 at Three Kings Hall, Cansaulim. Established by the late Walfredo A. from Arossim-Cansaulim, the group has been a beacon of recovery for nearly five decades. Members took the opportunity to fondly remember and pray for departed members including late Camal,…
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Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Two car occupants were injured in a self-accident on old NH-66 road at Tamnem-Loliem in Canacona on Monday evening. According to sources, a Car bearing registration number GA-08 N1380 coming from Poinguinim was proceeding towards Maxem-Loliem, when the driver reportedly lost control and the Car hit a road side tree trunk head-on and turned turtle. The two occupants including the driver injured and caught up inside the Car were later pulled out by the locals who came rushing the site on hearing the sound of the self-accident. According to sources, while the person driving the Car had…
Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: As part of World Environment Day celebration, NGO ‘We for Palolem’ has distributed over 250 saplings of plants including Insulin Plant, Cancer-Fruit, Black-Pepper Cripers to the people of Palolem in Canacona municipality. In a house-to-house visit, We For Palolem president Gaspar Coutinho alongwith his executive committee members went around and distributed the saplings and also planted some saplings along with the house-occupants in some places of Palolem which is CMC’s Ward no.X. “We have been holding these kinds of tree plantation programmes for the last 4 years and including the distribution and plantations of different types of…
Team Goemkarponn REIS MAGOS: A 57-year-old fisherman from Nerul, Francis Lobo, tragically drowned while fishing off the coast of Reis Magos on Sunday evening. Porvorim Police received an alert from the Candolim Primary Health Centre after Lobo was brought in dead by a 108 ambulance. PSI Pratik Tulaskar and his team visited the health centre and confirmed the victim’s identity. Investigations revealed that Lobo was casting his fishing net at Reis Magos Beach when he accidentally became entangled in it and was pulled into the water. Locals at the scene managed to retrieve him from the sea and transported him…
Team Goemkarponn DABOLIM: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has achieved a major milestone in the Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MHA) ‘Shri Anna’ initiative by surpassing the targeted 30% millet consumption across its 434 units and formations nationwide. This accomplishment reflects CISF’s strong commitment to promoting health and sustainability through the adoption of millets, or ‘Shri Anna’, among its personnel, their families, and the broader community. The initiative gained momentum following the United Nations General Assembly’s declaration of 2023 as the ‘International Year of Millets’. On May 4, 2023, the MHA mandated the inclusion of millets in the daily diet…
Team Goemkarponn MORMUGAO: Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL), a premier Defence Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Defence, achieved a major milestone with the keel laying of Yard 1283 — the fourth vessel in the Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessel (NGOPV) series being built for the Indian Navy. The ceremony took place on June 9 and was presided over by Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, AVSM, VSM, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff. The keel laying marks continued progress in the ₹6,200 crore NGOPV project, which includes the construction of seven advanced patrol vessels entirely designed and built in-house by GSL.…
Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Siddiqui alias Suleman Khan, an accused in high-profile land grab cases, has approached the High Court of Bombay at Goa seeking to quash FIRs and chargesheets filed against him in connection with cases registered in Mapusa and Valpoi. In his petition, scheduled for hearing on June 18, Khan has requested the court to either direct Revenue Courts to conduct the investigation or transfer the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He has also sought interim relief in the form of a stay on all proceedings until the case is resolved. Earlier this year, in February,…