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Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: FC Goa head coach Carlos Pena said that the fighting spirit and character of his players helped them win all three points as the Gaurs beat Kerala Blasters FC 3-1 in the Indian Super League (ISL) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Goa, on Sunday. “The fighting spirit and the character that we showed was the most important thing today in the game. Now the guys were really competitive. Also, we played very good football in some moments. We tried to create danger with our wings and in the first half we could do that,” Pena said…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has alleged that St. Xavier’s admin deliberately delayed the swearing-in ceremony of the elected Students’ Council of St. Xavier’s College in Mapusa (Goa), as ABVP has won this prestigious General Secretary position of the Students’ Union. More than 75 days have passed since student union elections were held at the St Xavier’s College of Goa University. “ABVP’s protest on Saturday was peaceful and only after scores of requests by elected student representatives fell on deaf ears of St. Xavier’s College administration, so much so that they objected to receiving any request letter for…

Snapshot Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced that a greenfield expressway will be developed between Mumbai and Goa on the lines of the recently inaugurated Samruddhi Corridor. Already, the union government is developing the Mumbai – Goa highway into four lanes as part of the larger 1,622-km-long economic corridor between Mumbai and Kanyakumari. It remains to be seen whether the greenfield expressway materialises or the government considers turning the new highway into an expressway. Goemkarponn desk MUMBAI: Maharashtra may get another expressway, this time connecting India’s financial capital Mumbai and popular tourist destination Goa. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced…

Goemkarponn desk MAPUSA: A blast reported in a resto-bar in Mapusa in Goa may have been caused by a cylinder as per an initial probe, a police official said on Monday. The explosion occurred in the eatery in a residential complex in Dangui Colony in the early hours of Sunday, though no one was injured in the incident, he said. “Initial reports suggest it was caused by a cylinder. There were no injuries, as no one was on the premises at the time of the incident. Teams of forensic experts and bomb detection and disposal squads have sanitised the place.…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A year after the state reported nearly a 50 per cent drop in the annual cashew yield, a unique hackathon, Hack-A-Cashew, is underway in order to put the spotlight on one of Goa’s most popular cash crops and examine novel ways and means to boost the cashew output in Goa. The one-of-a-kind hackathon is being conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Goa, with the Atal Incubation Centre at Goa Institute of Management (AIC-GIM) as a knowledge partner on the occasion of National Startup Day. ‘Hack-A-Cashew’ is currently inviting applications with innovative ideas and solutions to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Joining hands in sharing the joy of reading with every child, the Directorate of Education is partnering with Pratham Books to launch ‘Goa is Reading’, an initiative to promote reading in schools. This is supported by Indus Towers, one of the world’s largest telecom tower companies and India’s leading provider of passive telecom infrastructure, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programme. The campaign will impact young learners across the state of Goa and will run in government schools, schools aided by the state government and private independent schools. The main objective of the ‘Goa is Reading’…

Human psyche often creates hassles when it comes to building wealth. Given the factors like volatility, corrections, consolidation and steep surge in the valuation of the underlying asset, it is typical human investment behaviour to follow a herd mentality. But the reality is that emotions-driven decisions often result in wealth erosion and not creation. For instance, when the stock market surge beyond the fundamentally supported levels, investors turn greedy. Either they keep investing fresh sums in the fear of missing out on the rally or remain invested despite uncomfortable valuations. And when the tide turns and markets correct, investors turn…