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Goemkarponn dek FATORDA: Sports Minister Govind Gaude said that FIFA had undertaken works for laying of Hybrid Pitch at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as preparation for U17 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Gaude visited the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, to check the venue’s preparedness ahead of the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup to be held next month. “FIFA has undertaken work for laying of Hybrid Pitch at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as preparation for U17 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The FIFA World Cup in Qatar would be played on similar turf,” said Gaude during the inspection. He further said that this is the first…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Khandepar locals demand action against sand extraction at the Khandepar river, which is downstream at around 200 meters away from the old Khandepar bridge. Locals said there is sand mining near Pandava caves at Khandepar, which is a heritage site. Locals said sand mining poses a risk to the Pandava caves. Due to sand extraction on a large scale, there is soil erosion on the Bank of the river, and danger has been caused to houses at the bank of the river poses a high risk, and also to Pandava caves which are at the bank of…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) has come across malpractices by some of the schools in the form of conducting re-tests for the students, giving them an undue advantage in the internal assessment. “It has been brought to the notice of this Board that some schools conduct re-test of Formative Test-I to all students irrespective of the performance of students in the Formative Test-I,” GBHSE said. The board further said that it results in undue advantage to the student(s). This act of the concerned invites the Malpractice Act. (The Goa Prevention of Malpractice…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Tourism was awarded National Tourism Award in the category of Devotion to Duty Awarded to four lifeguards of Goa tourism agency Drishti life saving, namely Shashikant Jadhav, M Gulablal, Ramesh Gaonkar and Nitesh Chendekar The above National Tourism Awards were accepted by Rohan Khaunte, Minister for Tourism & IT, and Nikhil Desai, IAS, Director of Tourism Govt. of Goa, at the hands of Hon’ble Vice President of India Shri Jagdeep Dhankar in the presence of Hon Union Tourism Minister Shri J Kishan Reddy and Hon Union Minister of state for tourism Ajay Bhatt and Secretary Tourism…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: After being shooed away from Velsao beach during the survey, the Department of Tourism has informed that they have no plans of disturbing fisherman’s huts. The department, in a clarification issued here, said they are receiving many complaints from the officials posted at various beach stretches across the State of Goa as to encroachments on various beach stretches by unknown persons. “Considering the cognisance of the reports received from time to time, the matter was submitted to the Government for seeking appropriate orders to resurvey the entire coastal belt (beach stretches) from Keri to Canacona to ascertain…

Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Khandola won the Inter Collegiate Tennikoit Championship for men organized by Goa University at  Silver Jubilee hall, University Campus, Taleigao Plateau held on 27th & 28th September, 2022. Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Khandola defeated Shree Mallikarjun & Shri. Chetan Manju Desai College, Canacona 2-0 in the finals. First singles Deepak Naik of Government College, Khandola defeated Adarsh Gaonkar of Shree Mallikarjun College 20-22, 21-10 and 21-17. In second singles, Tejas Palkar of Government College, Khndola defeated Ratnesh Gaonkar of Shree Mallikarjun College 11-21, 21-15 and 21-15. Mrs Betty D’Silva, College…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA -A highly decomposed Sea-Turtle washed ashore on the Agonda beach shore on Wednesday. The fully decomposed and its Shell vertically opened was later taken in custody of the Forest department (Padi Range) and, after the proper examination, was buried in a specially dug Put right on one corner of the beach at Agonda. According to the forest officials who took up the exercise to dispose of the carcass, the female sea turtle was small in size but of the specific species of an endangered Olive Ridley. It was killed after being caught and injured in a fishing…