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Goemkarponn Desk VALPOI: The Gram Nyayalaya at Valpoi was inaugurated today by the Principal District & Sessions Judge and Chairman of the North Goa District Legal Services Authority, Shri Irshad A. Agha. The event, organized by the District & Sessions Court of North Goa in collaboration with the District Legal Services Authority, was held at the Administrative cum Commercial Building, Valpoi. Shri A. Agha emphasized that the purpose of the Gram Nyayalaya is to deliver speedy justice at the grassroots level. “Criminal and civil cases will be addressed through a mobile vehicle that will travel to various locations,” he explained.…

Goemkarponn Desk TALEIGAO: Days after the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant questioned the Goa University reasons behind its consistent drop in NIRF ranking, the Varsity said that they are in no position to recruit qualified professors and associate professors due to government’s domicile mandate. The GU said that posts of professors and associate professors are vacant in the University for close to four-five years and due to 15 years domicile mandate, they are in no position to fill it. The Varsity’s Executive Council met on Friday to deliberated over consistent drop in the ranking at National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). Goa…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today has warned for heavy fines fand confiscation of vehicles for roadside garbage dumping while instructing police impose fines and enforce strict measures. CM Sawant was addressing the Swachhta Hi Seva program via Video conferencing. “Government will impose heavy fines and confiscation of vehicles for roadside garbage dumping, instructs police to impose fines and enforce strict measures. I also urge citizens urged to click photos of offenders,” said Sawant He further said that contractors collecting garbage from hotels and industries must register the waste they collect and its disposal location through Panchayat or…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA: Reminding the government of the inauguration of Canacona’s incomplete Ravindra Bhavan, congress leader Janardhan Bhandari made strong demand to complete all the incomplete works to make ‘Lata Mangeshkar Kalangan’ a State of the Art project of Goa. On Friday , Bhandari submitted a Representation to Art & Culture Director Sagun Velip, demanding to complete all the incomplete works at the newly inaugurated Canacona Ravindra Bhavan at the earliest to make “Lata Mangeshkar Kalangan” indeed a cynosure of all eyes and not to remain a sore eyesight to the public. Thanking and expressing gratitude towards the Minister for…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Rohan Shah, a national of Nepal, was arrested by Panaji police yesterday morning following a multi-vehicle incident on the Old Mandovi Bridge. Three scooter riders and pillion riders were hurt in the collision, which also caused a significant traffic bottleneck in Porvorim and Panaji during rush hour. Preliminary investigations state that Shah lost control of his car while trying to pass another car because he was supposedly drunk. This caused the vehicle to collide head-on with oncoming traffic. Babuso Kalangutkar, a Chapora resident who has also been charged by the police, is the owner of the car…

New Delhi: An “embarrassed” All India Chess Federation (AICF) has filed a police complaint after a Chess Olympiad trophy its team won in the last edition of the tournament at home went missing from its office, forcing the sports body to arrange for a replica of the prized possession and tender an apology. It is a rolling trophy, and the incident came at a time when the Indian men’s team is closing in on the gold medal in the ongoing 45th edition of the Olympiad at Budapest. AICF sources confirmed that the Gaprindashvili Trophy, given to the team with the…

Chennai: Virat Kohli has not been having a great time in Test cricket of late. In both innings of the first Test against Bangladesh, Kohli delivered poor scores of 6 and 17. While in the first innings, he chased an outside off stump delivery by Hasan Mahmud, in the second innings, he fell victim to a wrong leg-before-wicket decision. Having chosen to not review it, the Ultraedge discovered the bat making contact with the ball, which would have ruled Virat not out had he opted for a review. Virat is having a poor run of form across all formats this…