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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Marine Commandos from the Indian Navy and Navy Seals from the United States conducted special marine operations during the 8th Joint Special Forces exercise in Goa from October 23rd to November 10th, 2023. The drill was beneficial in increasing the degree of cooperation between the two Naval Special Forces. This is not the first time that the two special forces are known to have practised together. In December of 2022, Goa played host to the seventh iteration of drill Sangam, a naval special forces drill conducted jointly by the Indian Navy MARCOS and the United States Navy…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: On the auspicious Diwali day the Mapusa police arrested nine persons in a gambling raid. SDPO Mapusa Jivba Dalvi informed that in an early morning operation on Sunday after acting on a tip received from sources, a team of Mapusa Police Station headed by PI Shitakant Nayka under the supervision of Jivba Dalvi consisting of PSI Gaurav Naik, PSI Dineshkumar Mukhiya, PSI Viraj Korgaonkar, PSI Yashwant Mandrekar, PSI Sunil Patil, Head Constable Sushant Chopdekar, Constables Rajesh Kandolkar, Akshay Patil, Prakash Polekar, Laxmikant Naik conducted a raid at the house of one Peter Misquita, Xelpem, Dhuler, Mapusa, Bardez,…

Goemkarponn desk ANJUNA: A lady, the owner of the hotel, was dead and two others were injured after a sports utility vehicle (SUV) ran into the reception of a hotel at the coastal village of Goa’s Anjuna on Saturday. The person killed in the incident was the owner of the hotel — Remedia Mary Albuquerque (57), while two other staff — Shiv Mangal Dindo (22) and Rupa Paras (31) — were injured. The driver of the SUV, a Ford Endeavour was identified as one 42-year-old Sachin Venu Gopal Kurup, a resident of Pune’s Kondhwa. Kurup has been arrested and booked…

Goemkarponn Desk CANACONA – Loliem Communidade’s thums-up to allotte 250 acres of land (the entire eco-sensitive Bhagwati plateau) for a ‘Film City’ has sent the locals in a frenzy even though Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) is yet to give its consent for the proposal. Loliem-Polem Biodiversity Members Manoj Prabhugaonkar and Dr. Cajy D’Silva came hard on Comunidadade’s decision stating the film city will neither help in bringing developments, employments on par with what the Mopa Airport did to Pernem villagers, and instead a film city will not only will concretize the eco-sensitive Bhagwati plateau, it will end up destroyed…

Goemkarponn Desk OLD GOA: Old Goa Police has arrested 20 people under preventive action in view of sudden meeting called out at Anjuman Thousheed-ul-musleemin,Sunni Noorani Masjid, Chimbel. According to information received, a meeting was suddenly called at Anjuman Taushid-ul-Usalmin, Sunni Noorani Masjid in Chimbal on Saturday. The Old Goa Police took immediate action and arrested 20 people for security reasons. All were produced before the Sub-District Officer and granted bail on a surety bond of Rs 1 Lakh.

Goemkarponn Desk DAVORLIM: In a shocking incident, a labourer was electrocuted to death at Dicarpale in Dabolim during painting an electricity department iron structure. As per information, the labour was a native of West Bengal. The said victim and other labourers were painting an electricity department iron structure, during which the tragedy took place.

Massive response to International Section, 600 Entries for Creative Minds of Tomorrow 32 Entries in 10 languages from 15 OTT Platforms for Best Web Series Award: Shri Anurag Thakur 198 films to be shown in International Section including 13 world premiers ‘Catching Dust’ to be the opening film; ‘About Dry Grasses’ to be the Mid-fest Film and ‘The Featherweight’ to be the Closing Film 19 award-winning films from various prestigious international film festivals this year, have been assorted in the IFFI Kaleidoscope 300 international film projects curated and showcased this year in the 17th edition of the Film Bazaar for…