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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa’s capital Panaji has lagged behind 15 Indian cities surveyed in the country in efforts to improve climate. The performance of Panaji city has become worse in this regard. Ahmedabad tops the list. This means that the condition of Ahmedabad is even worse than Panaji. Climate Center for Cities and ICLEI South Asia have reported on this. And Panaji is only given a two-star rating in that. This means Panaji city needs to improve it a lot. The biggest reason for this is the traffic in Panaji. The highest energy consumption in Panjit is in the transportation…

There is discrimination based on sex which is not allowed in the Constitution.Without taking any name, Pillai said recently a legislative assembly unanimously passed a resolution which is their right.I am not mentioning the name. Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai on Wednesday appeared questioning the resolution adopted recently by the Kerala assembly that decided to request the Central government to refrain from implementing the Uniform Civil Code in the country. Pillai was addressing a special session of the Goa legislative assembly in the presence of President Droupadi Murmu. Pointing out that the President had praised Goa…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: The Colvale police has arrested three persons for stealing a telephone pole. SDPO Mapusa Jivba Dalvi informed that on Wednesday during night hours, information was received that three persons had stolen one Telephone Pole kept on the road site at Revora worth ₹ 10,000/- and loaded in one Mahindra Jeep and were fleeing away. On receipt of above information, PI Colvale Vijay Rane along with his team consist of PSI Kunal Naik, HC-Rupesh Korgaonkar, PC Ajay Gawade get in to action and searched the area and detained one Mahindra Jeep No. GA 03 N 5419 along with…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Tejas, Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) LSP-7 successfully fired the ASTRA indigenous Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile off the coast of Goa on August 23, 2023. The missile release was successfully carried out from the aircraft at an altitude of about 20,000 ft. All the objectives of the test were met and it was a perfect text book launch. The test launch was monitored by the Test Director and scientists of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) along with officials from Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC) and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In an effort to raise awareness on the rise of human trafficking cases in Goa, Mukti Kiran in collaboration with Mog Foundation, is organising a debate on the topic: “Who is responsible to control the issue of anti-human trafficking? Police along with the civil society or the police themselves?” The debate will be conducted on 25 August, 2023, from 9 am onwards at the Multipurpose Hall, Sanskruti Bhavan, Directorate of Art and Culture, Patto, Panaji. The debate has received an overwhelming response from 25 Higher Secondary Schools of North Goa who have registered themselves for the Debate…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Tourism Malaysia is eager to promote bilateral relations between India and Malaysia on the tourism and cultural sectors and will explore opportunities of twin cities and sister cities between Goa and Melaka province of Malaysia owing to their cultural and heritage similarities. Speaking at an interactive session with the media on Wednesday, Consul General of Malaysia in Mumbai, Ahmad Zuwairi Yusoff said that they were eager to take forward the good relations between India and Goa. “Goa is one of the cities (where) we aim to get a market for incoming tourists to Malaysia. Malaysia and India…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: India’s space agency Isro has achieved the unprecedented soft landing of a probe on the Moon’s uncharted south pole. The mission’s Vikram lander began hurtling towards the lunar surface as planned, travelling at about 1.68km per second, and fired its engines to successfully align the probe vertically to the Moon’s surface. The space agency‘s teams were awaiting the arrival of the mission’s Lander Module (LM) at its designated point around 5.44pm local time (1.14pm BST) to initate the landing sequence. The live telecast of the module’s descent phase bagan at 5.20pm Indian time. Until now, no other…