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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar said that his department has not decided to cut off connections due to a rise in household demand. “Power department has not taken any decision to disconnect power connections because of increase in the load by households. Department has started working on other power infrastructure projects, such as underground cabling, in each of the 40 Assembly constituencies,” said Dhavalikar. He further said that the only thing we ask is that people notify the power department of the true load that each household is using. “Other than the fees for the three-phase connection, you…

Goemkarponn desk AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Titans on Monday appointed Shubman Gill as their captain for the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) following Hardik Pandya’s decision to move back to Mumbai Indians. The Gujarat Titans will receive Rs 15 crore from MI for the all-cash trade deal apart from a hefty undisclosed transfer fee, a part of which will also go to the cricketer. Once Pandya’s exit was sure, 24-year-old opener Gill was an obvious captaincy choice, having got the coveted ‘orange cap’ in the last season with 890 runs, second to only Virat Kohli’s all-time record of 973.…

Goemkarponn desk MUMBAI: Australia has made wholesale changes to the T20 squad in India as selectors cycle through options for the remaining three matches of the five-game series. World Cup winners Steve Smith and Adam Zampa are understood to have already flown home ahead of tonight’s third match in Guwahati in India’s north-east, while Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Sean Abbott will all return tomorrow. Jetting in as reinforcements are ‘keeper-batter Josh Phillippe and big-hitter Ben McDermott, who have already joined the squad and are available for tonight’s third T20. NSW pair Ben Dwarshuis and spinner Chris Green…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Sreenath, a documentary maker, and Archana Ravi, an illustrator, both from Kerala, were detained at Panaji Police Station in Goa for an hour due to their possession of a meme criticising the screening of the Hindutva propaganda movie “The Kerala Story” at the International Film Festival of India on Monday, November 27. Carrying a paper displaying the meme with the caption “Sudipto Sen: The Kerala Story, Source: Trust me bro!” the duo was also distributing a fackect containing debunked claims about the movie. These claims had been widely fact-checked and proven false. Sreekanth said to Maktoob, “They…

Following FC Goa’s 1-0 win over Jamshedpur FC at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao on Monday, the home side’s head coach Manolo Marquez said that they need to improve in a lot of areas. Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: After FC Goa’s 1-0 win over Jamshedpur FC at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao on Monday, the home side’s head coach Manolo Marquez said that they need to improve in a lot of areas. Speaking at a post-match press conference, the head coach said that he was not happy even after bagging three points as his side did not put up…

Michael Douglas received the prestigious Satyajit Ray Excellence in Film Lifetime Award at the International Film Festival of India Goemkarponn desk Panaji (Goa): American actor and film producer Michael Douglas shared his happiness in visiting India and said that it is always a “pleasure” to be here and added that India has a big history of cinema. While talking to the media at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, he said, “It is always a pleasure visiting India but this is my first time in the south. Cinema brings the world together and you have a big history…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Coming hard on the Sarpanch’s statement on validity of Resolutions passed in the gramsabha by 200 members, villagers asked the Loliem-Polem Sarpanch to learn the grampanchayat rules or quit from the post she is holding in the village panchayat of Loliem-Polem. Issuing a pre-recorded video of public statement, after watching recorded statement of VP Loliem-Polem Sarpanch Nisha Chari on Sunday evening Meena R Warik introducing herself as the citizen from Maxem area said, ‘Today at about 11 am I have attended the gramsabha of our village, and now I have heard a comment of our Sarpanch where…