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Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Strange but true, a family in Velsao had been living a life without electricity for the last 80 years, and all their day-to-day activities and festivals were spent under a lamp for the last eight decades The information came to light as people carrying out a survey in the area realised that the Satu Satarkar family comprising of a couple (around 80 years of Age) did not have enough means to even apply for a connection and were not very educated and decided to live without the electricity for the last many years. When contacted, Satu Satarkar,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: IndiGo airlines is all set to introduce direct flights that will connect Visakhapatnam International Airport to North Goa Airport three times a week. These services will commence from 28 March 2023 onwards, according to K Vijay Mohan, President of TTAA. The flight will leave the North Goa Airport at 3:40 p.m. and arrive in Visakhapatnam at 5:35 pm. The return flight will take off at 7:00 pm from Visakhapatnam and reach Goa at 8:50 pm. The IndoGo flights are set to operate three days a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) between Goa and Visakhapatnam. Currently, there are…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Indian table tennis star Manika Batra was the star of the show in the WTT Star Contender Goa, as she won her first-round matches in women’s singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles on Wednesday. Sutirtha Mukherjee was another Indian who won all her matches on the first day of the main event. However, it was curtains for legendary Achanta Sharath Kamal, who lost his singles and doubles matches. Sharath and G Sathiyan lost their men’s doubles round of 16 matches to Koreans Jaehyun An and Seungmin Cho 3-1 (11-6,11-7,7-11,11-8). Then in the final match of the day,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Adda52.com–India’s online poker destination, is all set to welcome the 9 finalists of the Adda52 Champions Leaderboard (ACL) 2.0 in Goa. The year-long leaderboard, which concluded on 31st December 2022, will witness an action-packed poker finale with 9 players competing for the winner’s title on 19th February 2023 at Deltin Royale, Goa. The 9 finalists hail from Delhi, Kanpur, Haryana, Pune and Goa. The winner will be crowned with the title of Adda52 Game Ambassador with a contract worth INR 20 lakhs. From Goa, poker players Ram Kakkar and Mohsin Shaikh qualified for the final leg. The…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Stating the Portuguese era culvert-bridge building technology is far better and long-lasting than the modern State-of-the-art engineering technology, people advocated that PWD engineers should resort to the olden days’ concept to build modern bridges, especially the culvert bridges on Major District Roads( MDR) and Village Interior Roads. To prove their point, locals in Loliem village pointed to about a 120- years old bridge still intact and standing in good condition on an old and abandoned Portugues-era Highway road section passing through the village. According to villagers, this culvert-bridge is built using a mixture of Lime-Powder and Juggery,…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) MLA Viresh Borkar today informed that a massive hill cutting has led to largescale destruction in Curca village under village panchayat of Cucra-Bambolim & Talaulim in St. Andre Constituency. MLA Borkar met TCP officials today and handed over a written complaint and maps. “Massive hill cutting has led to largescale destruction in Curca village; the said offence is said to be carried out in Survey No. 20/1-Aseen the Google earth images from 2009 till date, and it was shocking to see the level of destruction,’ said Borkar. He further said that in 2009…

AERIAL VIEW Today, all traditional Goan businesses are at the receiving end due to these outsiders, be it taxi businesses, shack owners, watersports owners, or fisherfolks; the non-Goans have captured every business, and the Goans are left at lurch. Why? This is our land and our government, and still, the voices of the Goans do not reach the rulers elected by the same Goans. Why? This is simply because few of us vote for just Rs 2000, a beer and a plate of chicken. Isn’t it? The people who bought your votes think it is their right to do what…