By Desk Mumbai:In a significant development, the Reliance Foundation Young Champs (RFYC) Academy based at Navi Mumbai has been conferred Two-Star Academy status by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The recognition was confirmed by AFC General Secretary Dato’ Windsor John in a communication to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Friday, July 3. For RFYC, the accolade is another feather in the cap after it became the first first youth academy in India to be granted a 5-star rating by the AIFF Academy Accreditation process in June, 2019. The AFC expect rigorous criteria to be met before an academy…
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Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Elvis Gomes today visited the Anti Corruption Branch of the vigilance department at Altinho, Panjim and deposed before the Investigation Officer urging him to take cognisance of statements made by Ministers which were reported widely, stating “all 40 MLAs in Goa are corrupt.” He was accompanied by AAP office bearers Pradeep Padgaonkar, Sunil Signapurkar, Valmiki Naik, and Bruno Fernandes among others. Briefing newspersons after coming out of the ACB, Gomes said it needed to be recalled that two ministers Babu Ajgaonkar and Michael Lobo in the recent past had been trading charges and countercharges of corruption…
There seems to be no respite for the residents of Mangor hill as the government decided to continue the Mangor hill for 15 more days. Last weeks, the residents had launched protests removal of the containment zone. Following this a high-;level meeting was called by the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant was attended by Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho, Alina Saldanha and Carlos Almeida besides councillors of MMC. Sawant told reporters said that the containment zone will continue in Mangor hill for 15 more days. The Chief Minister disclosed that the meeting decided to allow people wanting to move out for…
India has passed Russia as the country with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after recording a record number of cases for one day. The health ministry added 23,000 new cases on Monday, taking India’s total to 697,000 and almost 20,000 deaths. On Sunday India racked up nearly 25,000, its highest total for one day. The increases took India past Russia as the third highest total in the world behind Brazil with 1.6m cases and the United States with 2.88m. In the Indian capital New Delhi, medical staff started treating patients at a spiritual centre converted into…
Owing to shortage of staff, the government has decided to recruit medical staff on contractual basis to fight COVID19. “After deliberations with CM Dr. Pramod Sawant, we have taken a decision to recruit new teams on a contractual basis on top priority to designate them at respective Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres, who will report to the respective health officers,” Rane said. He said the new staff will be dedicatedly working on collecting swabs and co-ordinating with the testing centres. “This way the existing staff of PHC & CHC will be used only for regular activities as it…
Indian food delivery start-up Zomato has been unable to access around $100 million from Ant Financial, its biggest Chinese investor, in a first major example of the impact of India’s new foreign investment laws, The Financial Times has reported citing people familiar with the matter. In January, the online restaurant guide and food ordering platform said that it had raised $150 million (over Rs 1,065 crore) from existing investor Alibaba-affiliate Ant Financial, a Chinese financial giant, as a part of a larger funding round. The investment is a part of a larger funding round, announced by Zomato Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal in December…
New Delhi: Air India on Sunday (July 5) announced that under the Vande Bharat Mission, it will be conducting 36 flights between the United States and India from July 11 to July 19, 2020. Air India, in its statement, said that the tickets may be booked through Air India website only effective 20:00 hours (IST) on 6 July, equivalent to New York (EDT 1030 hrs of 6′ July 2020), Chicago (CDT 0930 hrs of 6 July 2020) & San Francisco (PDT 0730 hrs of 6 July 2020). Earlier, the Trump administration had imposed restrictions on Air India’s ‘Vande Bharat’ repatriation flights that are carrying Indians from…