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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: FC Goa star defender Anwar Ali was honoured with the Comeback of The Year award at the 2023 Sportstar Aces Awards in Mumbai in a function held at The Taj Mahal Palace hotel. The jury, chaired by India batting great Sunil Gavaskar, bestowed the honours on the defender for his resilience and passion for the sport which saw him return to playing football in 2022. The 22-year-old put in a number of impressive performances for his Club, FC Goa and the Indian national team – serving as a source of continued hope and inspiration for the youth…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Goa Forward Party has written to Health Minister Vishwajit Rane over the non-functioning of the lift and other facilities at Sub District Hospital at Ponda. “It’s been over a month since the Lift at Sub District Hospital, Ponda, is not working. Patients are facing hardships due to the same,” said GFP Leader Durgadas Kamat. He further said that they have learnt that repairs should be taken up due to non-payment of bills to the vendor. He further said that this matter was earlier brought to the notice of authorities at the hospital by social activist Viraj Sapre…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Karay Shiroda local Milind Mamlekar and his brother Satyawan Mamlekar complain that some farmers’ illegal storage of seawater for the past three years in the field for fishing activities poses a threat to his house and property. His house is located on the bank of the field, bordering his property just five meters away from his home. He said the Government should directly release the saline water and encourage farmers to cultivate paddy crops. Milind Mamlekar and his brother at Shiroda complained that sea or saline water storage in the field near his house threatens his home…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Congress has alleged serious violations of provisions of the Companies Act 2013 by Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Ltd (IPSCDL) and has demanded strict action. The Congress said that the affairs of IPSCDL have been conducted in a manner prejudicial to the public interest and to the interests of the stakeholders, including the citizens residing or visiting Panaji. “The company IPSCDL, is mandated to file the Audited financial statement and annual Return as per The Companies Act, 2013, within 30 days and 60 days respectively from the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting date as…

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,…