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Goemkarponn Desk NERUL: Two delivery boys were taken into custody by the police in relation to the theft of items valued at Rs 1.90 lakh from a Nerul apartment. The defendants have been identified as Nepali natives Mohan Chitar Raj (20) and Birat Zak Bahadur Basnet (23). The incident happened in a Nerul apartment on June 8. Snehalkumar Patel, the complainant, left the apartment after locking it and moving out of Vadodara, Gujarat. The suspects are said to have entered the apartment by breaking the lock on the door while he was away. The home was broken into and items…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia gave the clarion call of Goa Revolution Movement from the historic Lohia Maidan at Margao on 18th June 1946. It was our own Dr. Juliao Menezes who took the initiative to invite Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia to Goa. Goa Government must organise the official Goa Revolution Day function at Lohia Maidan, Margao and start a Chair in Goa University in the name of Dr. Juliao Menezes, demanded Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao. Speaking to the Media after the Goa Revolution Day function at Azad Maidan, Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao slammed the Chief…

Goemkarponn Desk OLD GOA: During the Eucharistic celebration on Monday at the Se Cathedral in Old Goa, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, consecrated Fr. Simião Purificação Fernandes as a bishop. On April 6, the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman named Fr. Simião Fernandes as its Auxiliary Bishop by decree of Pope Francis. Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas Sfx of Daltonganj and Bishop-Emeritus of Port Blair Alex Dias Sfx were the co-consecrators of the Eucharistic celebration and the Rite of Episcopal Ordination of a Bishop, respectively, presided over by Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão as Principal Consecrator (ordaining) Bishop.…

Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader Rohit Pawar on Monday claimed 18 to 19 MLAs of the ruling NCP led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar will cross over to their side after the upcoming monsoon session of the state legislature. Talking to reporters, Rohit Pawar maintained there are several NCP MLAs who have never spoken ill against party founder Sharad Pawar and other senior leaders after the July 2023 split in the outfit. “But they have to attend the legislature session and get development funds for their constituencies. So they will wait till the session ends (before making switch…

Kolkata: The Kanchanjunga Express was travelling from Agartala in Tripura to Sealdah in Kolkata when a goods train hit it from behind near Rangapani station, close to New Jalpaiguri Monday morning, resulting in the deaths of nine people and injuries to 41. Preliminary findings point to a combination of human error and signal failure as contributing factors. The Railway Board’s initial report on Monday revealed that the goods train, operating under a defective automatic signalling system, was travelling above speed limits when it crashed into the Kanchanjunga Express. The railways have not commented on this issue. When the automated system fails,…

NEW DELHI: The Congress decision to have Rahul Gandhi retain Raebareli and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contest from the seat he is vacating, Kerala’s Wayanad, is seen as one of the party’s better planned strategic moves. It is expected to give it a firm foothold in both north and south — necessary groundwork for future elections. Raebareli is one of the two Gandhi family bastions in Uttar Pradesh, represented for long by Rahul Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi. With the other bastion, Amethi, won back from the BJP by longtime Gandhi family loyalist KL Sharma, it gives back the Congress its…

Several records were broken during the T20 World Cup 2024, Group C match between West Indies and Afghanistan on Tuesday. Asked to bat first, West Indies posted 218/5 in 20 overs with Nicholas Pooran playing a blistering knock of 98 off 53 balls. So far, this was the highest total in the ongoing T20 World Cup. However, the main highlight of the innings was Pooran’s entry into elite list of batters, who smashed 36 runs in an over in a World Cup match. In that over, the 28-year-old batter smashed three sixes and three boundaries. To make things worse, Omarzai ended bowling…