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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In a significant moment for organ donation, Goa marked its fifth successful contribution led by SOTTO at GMC. The family of a man declared brain dead generously donated his kidneys, offering a renewed lease of life to two recipients who successfully underwent transplantation at GMC. The first organ donation of 2024 took place at Goa Medical College, where a 40-year-old native from Jharkhand, who had been living and working in Goa for five months, suffered a severe head injury due to a fall and was declared brain dead by the braindeath certification panel of experts approved by…

~ Badal Katewa won the men’s singles and men’s doubles title ~ Bengaluru’s Trisha Vinod emerged the winner in the women’s singles category Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Rajasthan’s Badal Katewa made his debut in the Gadre Gaspar Dias Open 2024 a memorable one, winning the men’s singles and men’s doubles title, even as Bengaluru’s Trisha Vinod won the ladies singles’ title in the state-ranking tournament. 26-year-old Katewa, who has represented India in the under-18 category, won a tough three-set final match against Aman Shetty to win the prestigious title. Katewa lost the first set (5-7), but won the next two sets…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa University Won one silver and one bronze medal at the All India Inter University Swimming Men and Women Championship 2023-24, organised by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu from 2nd to 4th February 2024. Both the medals were won by Ms. Megan De Almeida, Silver in Women Diving- 3 Meter Spring Board and Bronze in Women Diving- 1 Meter Spring Board. Other top-notch performance came from Ms.Tanisha Murgod, who finished 10th in the 50 M Breaststroke Women and Mr. Aryan Sharma who finished 9th in 800 M Freestyle Men and 12th in 400…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa GSB Sports & Charitable Trust in association with Goa Saraswat Samaj unveiled cricket match jerseys and winner’s trophies of the Alcon GSB Unity Cup 2024 T20 cricket tournament at Goa Saraswat Samaj’s food festival, recently. The unveiling was done by former chief minister and MLA of Margao Constituency Shri Digambar Kamat, councillor Sagun (Dada) Naik, Shri Desh Prabhudesai (President of Goa Saraswat Samaj), Ranjita Pai (Chairman, Women’s Commission of Goa), Siddhit Pai Raiturker (President of Goa GSB Sports & Charitable Trust), Venkat Biche (Secretary ), Siddharth Ghanekar (Tournament Coordinator) and other trustees Kapil Borker, Kapil Angle,…

CM reiterates that Dabolim Airport will continue to operate & there is no decline Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today yet again reiterated his stand that Dabolim International Airport will not shut down and will continue to co-exist with Manohar International Airport. Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo had raised the issue in Assembly claiming that GMR had been pressuring the Indian Navy. Reginaldo said that flight operations have been reducing slowly at Dabolim, as airlines are opting for Mopa. During the Assembly session, MLAs from both the Opposition highlighted that airlines have already initiated the move of their international…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Goa Forward Party (GFP) Chief Vijai Sardesai today grilled the Power Minister Sudin Dhavlikar over the failure to recover 643 arrears and purchase of power from Arunachal Pradesh. Vijai during the question hour said that since 2022, the government has hiked the power tariff and the cumulative hike in the last three years is 10 per cent. “It is learnt that total arrears pending is around 643cr of which 355 are state and central government departments,” said Vijai. In reply to Vijai, Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar said that the total arrears as of date is around 800cr…

Goemkarponn Desk PORVORIM: Power Minister Sudin Dhavlikar informed the house today, the cabinet has approved the implementation of the revised solar power policy within the next week. According to him, this will increase the amount of green energy produced and used within the state and decrease the amount of power purchased from outside the state. Instead of investing the funds in solar and other green power-generating projects in Goa, the opposition questioned the acquisition of green power worth Rs 16 crore from a trader in Arunachal Pradesh. CM was informed that purchasing green power from approved traders is mandatory in…