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Goemkarponn desk VASCO: The upcoming state-of-the-art terminal will boost cruise passenger traffic at Mormugao port in Goa next year. The International and Domestic Cruise Terminal will be ready by March 2025 and will likely raise Goa’s competitiveness in the global cruise market, reported PTI, citing an official on Sunday. The growth prospect of cruise passenger traffic in the coastal state is in line with a 40 per cent rise in cruise passenger traffic at Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) in the financial year 2023-24. The inauguration of the International and Domestic Cruise Terminal and allied facilities will bolster tourism and the local economy…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Reiterating that road accidents are killing people like insects, the Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Monday attacked the BJP government for its failure to fix black spots and take measures to stop fatalities. “Government should improve road engineering in the state and ensure that not a single loss of life is seen on roads. In December last year, Union Minister for Road, transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari announced Rs 100 crore funds to remove the numerous road black spots. Despite this, the state government has failed to take measures to work on it. When it can’t…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: In an exchange of friendly exhibition football matches, Chandor Parish defeated Agonda Parish winning all three matches played at SAG Grounds Agonda on Sunday. In the first football match played between Agonda Altar-Servers and Chandor Altar-Servers (Boys) holding the fort goalless in the first half Chandor won the match with a facile win over Agonda teenagers with a solitary field goal in the dying minutes of the second half. Chandor Parish Youth (Girls) defeated St. Anne’s Parish Youth (Girls) in the exhibition Tie-Breaker by 4-3 extended to sudden-death penalty shoot-outs. It was an entertaining exhibition match of…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Causing major ecological damage, three huge Casuarina Trees strategically placed on the Turtle nesting site of Galgibaga shore were chopped down by two privately operated Shack-Owners at Talpona late Saturday night. The forest (wildlife) department conducted Pachanama took possession of the tree logs and booked two persons Dikshita Komarpant and Tulshidas Komarpant as further investigation is carried out to register necessary FIR on the alleged illegal activity. According to Forest Department’s RFO Rajesh Naik, as per preliminary enquiry, both Dikshita Komarpant and Tulshidas Komarpant have agreed to carry out the illegality by cutting down the three Casuarina…

New Delhi: Technology giant Microsoft Corporation (India) has bought around 16 acres of land in Pune from Viva Highways for ₹ 453 crore, according to property consultant Square Yards. In a statement on Friday, Square Yards said the recent land deal in Pune, registered in September 2024, involved the purchase of 66,450 square metres (approximately 16.4 acres) from Viva Highways Limited. “The transaction, which registered under its Indian arm Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd incurred a stamp duty of ₹ 27.18 crore along with a registration fee of ₹ 30,000,” the consultant said, adding that the total consideration paid was…

Kolkata: Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, tried to downplay the 31-year-old doctor’s rape-murder as an incident of suicide and this may have led to the destruction of evidence, probe agency CBI has told a Kolkata court. Dr Ghosh, earlier arrested in a case of financial irregularities at the state-run hospital, now faces a charge of tampering with evidence in the heinous case that has shocked the nation. Abhijit Mondal, officer-in-charge of Tala Police Station, has also been arrested in this case. According to the CBI’s remand note submitted in court yesterday, Dr Ghosh…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Over the last five years, there has been a significant decline in the incidence of HIV/AIDS among Goan women. According to data, women made up 40% of all newly reported cases in the State in 2019. The proportion of women among those who reported new HIV infections in the State fell to just 29% last year. Although there has been an 11.7 per cent decline in HIV infections among the State’s female population over a longer time period of a decade and a half since 2009, health officials are unable to pinpoint the reasons for such a…