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Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: Calangute Police has arrested 5 persons on charges of mobile theft. Calangute Police Station received a phone call from one Karthik Sandeep, r/o n/o Uttar Pradesh informing that some unknown person had snatched his mobile phone. Accordingly, Beat, and LIB staff of Calangute Police Station left to verify the incident and, after developing the information, succeeded in apprehending a group of five accused persons, namely Ram Bhowmick, Anil Ramu Rathod, Sanjeev Singh, Sunny Saho and Yogesh Devania Surat all n/o Karnataka. All the above-accused persons were staying in one hotel at Panaji, and from them, the stolen…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Football Development Council (GFDC) has paid glowing tributes to one of the greatest players to grace the beautiful game Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pele, who passed away late on Thursday night after an extended battle with cancer. GFDC Chairman Brahmanand Shankwalkar said that Pele’s passing was a huge loss to the world of football and recalled fond memories of growing in love with the beautiful game thanks to Pele’s gliding past defenders on the football pitch. “Growing up, Pele was the only football forward we looked up to. It was he who made me…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Bangalore Tourist family arrived for Goa Darshan injured in an accident between Maruti Omni and Milk Tempo at OPA Junction today at 7 am. The accident took place when Milk supplying tempo while coming from Kodar towards OPA Khandepar Junction took (entered from no entry of underpass ) i.e. is the right-hand side of underpass and dashed Maruti Omni vehicle due to which driver of Omni car and one occupant injured. Luckily the children’s and other occupants in Omni escaped with minor injuries. The Omni Car driver followed the Google map route, which has now been locked.…

Goemkapronn desk PONDA: The Ambe-Dhulay bandhara on Dudhsagar-Opa river to augment Opa water treatment plant storage by 1.5 lakh cubic meters. The newly constructed unique bandhara cum Bandhara at Ambe-Dhulay on Dudhsagar – Opa river will add 1.5 lakh cubic meters (cum) of water to the Opa water works storage. It was inaugurated in May 2022 by WRD Minister Subash Shirodkar, and the bandhara has filled to its full level on Wednesday afternoon. The unique Bandhara is used for dual purposes, i.e. for storage purposes as well as it will serve as a footbridge to villagers. The footbridge demand was…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Governor of Goa, P. S. Sreedharan Pillai, has extended his heartiest greetings and warm wishes to the people of Goa on the occasion of New Year 2023. In his message, the Governor said that New Year is a joyous event when we refresh our thoughts and prepare for new achievements. The advent of the New Year brings new hopes, aspirations and expectations and rejuvenates our lives. The year just gone by has many notable achievements, such as the Inauguration of the first phase of Mopa International Airport, named “Manohar International Airport”, the Organization of 9thWorld Ayurveda…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Forward President Vijai Sardesai, while taking Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant to task on the Mhadei river issue, said he was appointed as CM only for the sellout of Mhadei to Karnataka. “Sawant was never serious on Mhadei. His predecessor had set up a full-fledged Mhadei Office at Goa Niwas on the 1st floor, which is now shut. Earlier, One AE and One JE were permanently stationed on a rotation basis for 15 days which the BJP Govt also stopped”, Sardesai said. Dr Pramod Sawant led BJP Govt neither pressed for the cases in the…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: The last day of the 2022 year turned out to be tragic for a Mumbai family who arrived in Goa to bring in a new year after a 72 year old man died on the Baina beach on Saturday afternoon while allegedly indulging in a water sports activity with his family members. Sources said that Prakash Madhusudan Khair (72), a resident of Jogeshwari East, Mumbai had come with his family to Baina beach, and the group had gone for some water sports activity where he may have suffered a heart attack that could have led to his…