Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A 27-year-old man from Uccasaim allegedly jumped from the new Mandovi bridge yesterday night. Search and rescue operations are being carried out by Fire and Emergency Services to locate the person identified as Farooq Usman. Panaji police were informed about the incident by Farooq’s brother who was with him on the bridge before he jumped down.
Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Purchasing high end luxury cars in Goa would now be a less expensive affair with Goa Cabinet deciding to reduce road taxes. “Cabinet has approved reduction in taxes on high end vehicles to discourage people from registering their vehicles outside the state,” said CM Sawant briefing media after Cabinet. Speaking further Sawant explained that vehicles costing upto 6 lakhs would be charged 9% of the vehicle cost. “Similarly, those vehicles not exceeding 15 lakhs would be charged 11 percent. Vehicles between above 15 to 35 lakhs would be charged 13 percent,” said Sawant. Further, those vehicles above…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Noted lawyer Adv Aires Rodrigues, who recently took Portuguese citizenships, wants India to allow dual citizenship and put teh issue to rest. In hi social media message, Rogdrigues says every so often, this age-old issue about Dual Citizenship despite various utterances by different politicians over the years comes to the fore. “It is an issue that has been of concern to many people. It would be in everyone’s best interests to put to bed this issue once and for all, he says. Rodrigues says the Government and the Courts need to find a solution that may resolve…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: All 41 men trapped underground in a tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara were rescued late Tuesday, beginning the home stretch of a frantic 17-day multi-agency op that relied, in the final stretch, on the banned manual “rat-hole”-mining technique employed after high-tech machines, or augers, failed to drill through the nearly 60 metres of rock that has threatened to bury the workers. The extraction process took some time to allow each worker to re-acclimatise to surface conditions, where the temperature is around 14 degrees Celsius at this time. The workers were brought out on specially modified stretchers; these were…
Goemkarponn desk DABOLIM: Following a site inspection, Panchayats Minister Mauvin Godinho said that the well contamination was a definite result of storage tank or pipeline leaks. Godinho informed that a formal complaint could be filed to look into possible wrongdoing in the incident. “This is the third such incident; the first two occurred in Sancoale and Bogmalo years ago. To guarantee that people will once again have access to water, corrective action must be taken,” he added. Godinho said that in the past, there have also been instances of fuel theft from the main pipelines that lead from the ship…
Although the Blue Tigers won just one out of the two matches they played, the win raised hopes of India progressing to the next round. The Indian men’s senior football team made a promising start in the second round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Although the Blue Tigers won just one out of the two matches they played, the win raised hopes of India progressing to the next round, which will also be the first time if the team qualifies. In order to do so the team have to finish at the top two in their respective group, which have…
Virat Kohli is all set to miss the T20I and ODI series against South Africa. India skipper Rohit Sharma is yet to confirm his availability for the white-ball assignment, as per NDTV sources. Goemkarponn desk MUMBAI: As the Indian cricket team enters a new phase after the conclusion of the Cricket World Cup 2023, a young brigade, led by Suryakumar Yadav, is leading the unit against Australia in a 5-match T20I series. But, with the all-format tour of South Africa not far away, there isn’t any official confirmation on the availability of seniors like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. It…
