The vibrant and pulsating world of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festivals has long attracted thousands of young enthusiasts from across the globe, celebrating music and community. However, a recent tragedy in Goa has cast a shadow over this lively scene and raised significant concerns regarding the safety of festival-goers. A 25-year-old man from Delhi lost his life after attending an EDM festival on Saturday, highlighting the urgent need for reevaluation of the support and protocols in place for such events. The young man’s untimely death occurred shortly after the festival, leading to a hospital rush where he unfortunately succumbed to…
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Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane today said that Goa proudly secured the top rank on the NACO Scorecard for April–June 2024 “Through consistent efforts, Goa proudly secured the top rank on the NACO Scorecard for April–June 2024. DHS’s focused efforts have led to excellence in HIV testing, maternal screening, STI/RTI reporting, HRG coverage, and EID testing,” said Rane He further said that the improvements in viral load monitoring, antenatal care, and timely linkages have strengthened key healthcare facilities like ICTCs, ART Centres, and STI/RTI Clinics. “We will continue to build on this success, with our commitment to making…
Team Goemkarponn MARGAO: Businessman Chirag Datta Naik made a donation of Rs 1 crore to Konkani Bhasha Mandal (KBM). The gift honors his father, Datta Damodar Naik, who was born on December 30 and turned 70. Every other year, KBM will host a Chitrangi Melava and Samajik Parishad on progressive themes using the interest accumulated from the corpus. Additionally, the organization will provide yearly full-day workshops that center on the works of Konkani writers from the past and present. With intentions to publish these narratives as books, the program includes a specific fund for recording the experiences of disadvantaged people…
Team Goemkarponn FATORDA: Around midnight, miscreants acted mischievously and damaged a crib close to the Holy Spirit Church area. After instigating the trouble, the three individuals were observed departing the area after arriving on a scooter. According to Bryan Fernandes’ complaint filed with the Fatorda police, the three of them showed up to the location at approximately 12:10 am, went inside the crib, defiled it, and broke the Christmas tree. In addition to damaging and destroying the LED floodlights, the three of them went into the crib and slept inside. The accused also ripped out the lights and tried to…
Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Stating that Canaconcars are demanding for better health facilities since 2011, Canacona Citizens Health Welfare Committee (CCHWC) blamed the government and particularly the Health minister for ignoring Canconcars health issues. ‘Since 2011, we have been making regularly making demands to provide facilities, provide doctors, supply medicine, provide experts/technicians/Lab-Assistants for handling various technical equipments, and make arrangements for doctor’s/medical staff accommodation facilities in the only Government Hospital in Canacona but the demands made are neither fulfilled and vehementally ignored by subsequents’, said CCHWC convenor Diogo Da Silva. We are told that Canacona MLA and Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar met…
Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Questioning the logic of NH-66 road-widening on its either sides by 2 feets below the existing highway road for about 500 metres stretch between Gulem and the edge of Charas-rasta, people claims it’s PWD’s new way of putting public life in danger, by an innovative ‘Death-trap’, and a wastefull double expenditure by the double-engine Sarkar. Its been over two months that PWD is working on Extension of NH-66 road by two-metres on either sides and have accordingly have excavated by about 5 ft deep on both sides of the excisting road for about 500 metres. Over the…
Kullu: Police rescued around 5,000 tourists stranded at Solang Nala, a ski resort in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu on Friday, amid heavy snowfall in the state. Kullu police said that a rescue operation was launched on December 27 after about 1,000 vehicles got stranded in Solang Nala. “Due to fresh snowfall today on 27.12.2024, about 1000 tourists and other vehicles were stuck in Solang Nala. There were about 5000 tourists in these vehicles. The vehicles and tourists have been rescued by Kullu Police and taken to safe places. The rescue operation is still going on,” Kullu police said in a post…