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At the fifth physical edition of the Serendipity Arts festival, being held in Goa, curators and artists are playing with forms and ideas Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: These days, Goa has turned into a site for experimentation, with artists and curators playing with forms and ideas. So you have Suno, a new media experiment by artists Kanchan Joneja, Sukriti Thukral and Mayank Joneja that explores the intersections between storytelling and digital soundscapes. It recreates an obscure site from Delhi at the Old GMC Complex in Goa through aural immersion. In Terra Nullius/Nobody’s Land: Excavations From Image 3.0, eight multimedia practitioners from…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The cross-examination of the witnesses in the infamous Panaji police station attack case is likely to be held on December 17 before the trial court. On Thursday, the burnt vehicles during the attack were brought for verification before the Court. The Court has adjourned the matter to December 17, when the witness’s cross-examination will take place. “The car which is attached is with the Porvorim police station. The Court directed the accused to verify the car, which was burned during the attack, along with investigating officer,” said Adv Alfonso. On December 2, the CBI produced the original…

The new airport named as Manohar International Airport (MIA) which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday is set to commence operations from January 5, 2023 The new airport named as Manohar International Airport (MIA) which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday is set to commence operations from January 5, 2023. The greenfield airport in Goa, is expected to bring respite to passengers from air high fares to and from Goa, which officials have been attributing to the four-hour closure of the airport every day. This closure is for sorties by the Indian Navy which…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Cyber Crime Police today has registered an FIR against unknown persons for disrupting and disconnecting the network from RBL Bank ATMs across 4 cities, thereby illegally withdrawing cash worth Rs 9,24,000. As per information, the criminals, with their common intention of cheating, intensionally disrupted and disconnected the RBL Bank ATMs location at Panaji, Mapusa, Calangute and Margao from the network. The disruption was done while there were processing transactions of debit cards numbers for RBL Bank Ltd and withdrew the cash of Rs. 924000/- Police have launched an investigation and technical analysis based on specific human intelligence…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: Aam Aadmi Party’s Benaulim MLA Capt Venzy Viegas has been served a summons by JMFC Vasco for the anti-coal protests in 2020. “Your attendance is necessary to answer to a charge of u/s 146, 147 and 174 (a) Railway Act 1989. You are hereby required to appear in person before this court on December 17, 2022, at 10 am,” the JMFC C Court notice reads. Reacting to teh notice Capt Venzy Viegas took to social media to say BJP was rattled by his performance, and hence the notices were issued. “This summons has suddenly appeared from 2020…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: With no solution from Government, around hundred vendors and shopowners risk their lives to conduct business in the 30-year-old Usgao dilapidated PDA Market Building. Vendors said the building was on the verge of collapse with no proper maintenance wood for 30 years. However, they have no option but to conduct business under this structure to feed the family. Market structure has become weak and dangerous for conducting business and could collapse anytime, vendors said. The ground plus-one-storey PDA Market building was constructed and inaugurated in 1992 by former Ponda MLA and Chief Minister Ravi Naik. The building…

Goemkarponn desk CANDOLIM: Calangute MLA Michael Lobo said that Calangute Panchayat is a hell bend to stop illegal activities under their jurisdiction. “Panchayat is hell bend to stop illegal activities happening under their jurisdiction; first of all, the business being carried out should be first established, and then action should be taken,” said Lobo. He further said that there should be a proper channel, that is, first, there should be an inspection, then notice should be issued, then a personal hearing and lastly, closure. “What Sarpanch Joseph Sequeira is saying is 100 per cent correct, but we have to follow…