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Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: With a direct qualification to the semifinals hanging in the balance, FC Goa host Chennaiyin FC in a high-stakes knockout battle of the Indian Super League here on Saturday. On recent form, FC Goa enters the fixture on the back of an impressive run (45 points from their 22 matches), having secured victories in four out of their last five matches. Their commanding performance against Chennaiyin FC in their recent face-off, where they emerged triumphant with a 4-1 scoreline, underscores their current form and confidence. Contrastingly, Chennaiyin FC, despite experiencing a setback in their previous fixture against…

ODISHA: Odisha FC qualified for the semi-final of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2023-24 by beating Kerala Blasters FC by 2-1 at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar tonight. Accordingly, the Juggernauts have won their first-ever ISL playoffs game, and thus made it to the semi-final for the first time in the competition’s history. They will now be competing against the Mohun Bagan Super Giant across two legs in the last-four clash for a place in the ISL final. In a gripping encounter spanning across 120 minutes, the Juggernauts prevailed at their home turf despite trailing first in the game. Lithuanian…

LONDON: Mark Robins scored the goal that helped launch Manchester United’s era of dominance. Now he is plotting to deepen their misery in the FA Cup semi-final on Sunday as Coventry boss. The 54-year-old scored against Nottingham Forest in the third round of the competition in 1990, a goal that turned out to be a turning point in the history of United and was widely credited with saving Alex Ferguson’s job. Robins also scored the winner in the semi-final against Oldham and United went on to lift the cup, the first of a cascade of trophies under Ferguson, who oversaw…

Goemkarponn Desk MUMBAI: The Indian cricket team’s 15-member squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 is likely to be finalised by the end of April in order to stick with the ICC’s May 1 cut-off date for the provisional roster. According to reports, captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj and Arshdeep Singh are certainties in India’s T20 World Cup squad. The remaining five slots will be finalised based on the player’s IPL 2024 performance in the first four weeks of the ongoing T20 tournament. A BCCI…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Congress received a significant boost when prominent campaigners for the upcoming Goa Lok Sabha elections were announced, including National President Mallikarjun Kharge, party heavyweights Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Priyanka Vadra, and Kanhaiha Kumar. Remarkably, the party produced a list of celebrity campaigners that includes Francisco Sardinha, one of the likely candidates who had said he would run after being refused a ticket. Amit Patkar, Yuri Alemao, Girish Chodankar, Carlos Fereira, and Altone D’Costa are among the other Goan leaders on the list. Meanwhile, Nuvem Sarpanch, Freda D’Sa, and others publicly endorsed Captain Viriato Fernandes,…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Hearing in the Criminal Revision Applications filed by Digambar Kamat and Churchill Alemao in the case filed against them by Directorate of Enforcement, Govt of India has been adjourned to June 14,2024. The case has been adjourned at the request of the counsels of Kamat and Alemao. Office objections in the case would be cleared within a week from today so that the revision applications can be awarded a regular number, Court was told.

Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: On the request made by Revenue Minister Atanasio Monserrate to the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) for instructions to deliver the investigation’s closure report on his counter complaint in the Panaji police station attack case, the South Goa Sessions Court has deferred making any decisions. May 3 is when Sessions Judge Irshad Agha, the Special Judge designated by the High Court to hear criminal charges involving MPs and MLAs, is expected to make his decision. Adv A D’Sa, Monserrate’s attorney, argued during the arguments that the CBI had not looked into his client’s countercomplaint or filed a…