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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today informed that action will be taken against anyone responsible for the gas leak blast accident at Mapusa. The State Disaster Management is overlooking the Mapusa blast incident. Action will be taken against whoever is responsible for the accident,” said CM Sawant. He further said that this is a serious incident and that the state disaster management authority is fully capable of handling such incidents. DGP Goa Jaspal Singh informed that the FSL inspection has revealed a lack of safety measures that led to the incident. “Nothing suspicious about minor suspected LPG Gas…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: North Goa Collector Mamu Hage today has informed that she will seek a report from the Bardez Mamlatdar on the disruption of classes at St Xavier’s College Mapusa by ABVP members. “Will seek a report from the Bardez Mamlatdar on the disruption of classes at St Xavier’s College Mapusa by ABVP members,” said Hage. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members had stormed into North Goa’s St Xavier’s College campus and allegedly disrupted classes on Saturday. According to officials, the ruckus was created over the delay in constituting the student council. The standoff between the ABVP and the…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: FC Goa head coach Carlos Pena said that the fighting spirit and character of his players helped them win all three points as the Gaurs beat Kerala Blasters FC 3-1 in the Indian Super League (ISL) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Goa, on Sunday. “The fighting spirit and the character that we showed was the most important thing today in the game. Now the guys were really competitive. Also, we played very good football in some moments. We tried to create danger with our wings and in the first half we could do that,” Pena said…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has alleged that St. Xavier’s admin deliberately delayed the swearing-in ceremony of the elected Students’ Council of St. Xavier’s College in Mapusa (Goa), as ABVP has won this prestigious General Secretary position of the Students’ Union. More than 75 days have passed since student union elections were held at the St Xavier’s College of Goa University. “ABVP’s protest on Saturday was peaceful and only after scores of requests by elected student representatives fell on deaf ears of St. Xavier’s College administration, so much so that they objected to receiving any request letter for…

Snapshot Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced that a greenfield expressway will be developed between Mumbai and Goa on the lines of the recently inaugurated Samruddhi Corridor. Already, the union government is developing the Mumbai – Goa highway into four lanes as part of the larger 1,622-km-long economic corridor between Mumbai and Kanyakumari. It remains to be seen whether the greenfield expressway materialises or the government considers turning the new highway into an expressway. Goemkarponn desk MUMBAI: Maharashtra may get another expressway, this time connecting India’s financial capital Mumbai and popular tourist destination Goa. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: A blast reported in a resto-bar in Mapusa in Goa may have been caused by a cylinder as per an initial probe, a police official said on Monday. The explosion occurred in the eatery in a residential complex in Dangui Colony in the early hours of Sunday, though no one was injured in the incident, he said. “Initial reports suggest it was caused by a cylinder. There were no injuries, as no one was on the premises at the time of the incident. Teams of forensic experts and bomb detection and disposal squads have sanitised the place.…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A year after the state reported nearly a 50 per cent drop in the annual cashew yield, a unique hackathon, Hack-A-Cashew, is underway in order to put the spotlight on one of Goa’s most popular cash crops and examine novel ways and means to boost the cashew output in Goa. The one-of-a-kind hackathon is being conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Goa, with the Atal Incubation Centre at Goa Institute of Management (AIC-GIM) as a knowledge partner on the occasion of National Startup Day. ‘Hack-A-Cashew’ is currently inviting applications with innovative ideas and solutions to…