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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Forward Party MLA Vijai Sardesai on Wednesday said the BJP will speak about ‘Sanatan Dharma’ till the Lok Sabha elections are held in the country, and asked the saffron party not to “hoodwink” people over the issue. While addressing a press conference here, Sardesai said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant was expected to speak such things in Madhya Pradesh. “What else we can expect from him to speak in Madhya Pradesh…. I request him to not speak it in Goa,” he sarcastically said. Chief Minister Sawant on Monday, while addressing a meeting in Madhya Pradesh, had said…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With less than 10 days left for the 2023-24 edition of Indian Super League (ISL) to kick-off, FC Goa are currently in the final phase of their pre-season preparations. Led by head coach Manolo Marquez, the Men in Orange recently reached the semi-finals of the Durand Cup, and would now be keen to follow it up with a fruitful campaign in the league as well. Marquez, meanwhile, along with players Noah Sadaoui, Udanta Singh and Muhammed Nemil also took time out of their hectic pre-season schedule to attend the ISL 2023-24 Media Day in Bengaluru on Tuesday,…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: A mega Health Camp as part of Aayushman Bhav Health Mela will be held at Canacona Community Health Centre (CHC) on Friday. The health Mela will be held from 8.00 am to 4.00pm at Community Health Centre, Canacona. Various Specialist Doctors and Health Facilities will made available during the Health Camp, including Physician OPD, Surgery OPD, Gynaecologist OPD, Skin OPD, Paediatrician OPD, Orthopedics OPD, ENT OPD, Psychiatrist OPD, Eye Specialist OPD, General OPD, Ayush OPD, Dental Surgeon,Routine Immunization, Breast Cancer Detection, Blood investigation, Abha Id Generation, PMJY Registration, including others. People coming for Health Mela should bring…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The District Society for prevention of cruelty to animals (North Goa) has restrained the use of the crackers restricting from 8pm to 10pm on festive occasions like Ganesh, Diwali and other festivals. For Christmas/New Year it is restricted from 11.55 pm to 12.30 am in pursuance to the order of the Hon’ble Supreme court of India in Writ Petition (C) 728/2015 along with WP(C) 891/2016, WP (C) 895/2016, WP (C) 899/2017, WP (C) 213/2017 regarding strict implementation of restraint on use of fire crackers. Fire Crackers using Barium salts are banned as well as those which are…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that Goa Electronics Limited (GEL) Tourism Department are working on the project to identify and map all the libraries, religious sites and museums in the state. “Goa Electronics Limited (GEL) Tourism Department are working on the project to identify and map all the libraries, religious sites and museums in the state,” said Sawant. He further said that Goa is taking unprecedented, progressive steps in the implementation of PM Gati Shakti program – to create the Cultural Atlas, a list of all festivals, events and fairs will be identified and marked on…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Students of Keshav Smruti Higher Secondary School from South Goa on Wednesday took out a protest rally demanding revocation of the principal’s suspension who has been suspended over the hijab row. Principal Shankar Gaonkar was suspended on Monday by the management after Hindu organizations alleged that he allowed students to visit a mosque, where they were allegedly forced to wear hijab. “We were not forced to wear Hijab. Just like at our worshiping places and out of respect, we wore ‘dupatta’ and a scarf,” a protesting girl student said. The protesting students demanded that the suspension of…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: To make security checks quicker and error-free at India’s hypersensitive airports, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) received clearance from the Public Investment Board (PIB) to install full-body scanners that will cut down the passenger frisking time by half. These full-body scanners will be installed at four airports in the country including Kolkata, Chennai, Pune and Goa. In July, the government had floated a tender to procure 131 full-body scanners– that cut down the average passenger frisking time to 15 seconds from the current 30 and 600 new hand baggage scanners at over Rs 1,000 crore at…