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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…

Goemkarponn desk AMBALA: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant felicitated and handed over a cheque of Rs 10 lakhs to the Smt. Charanjeet Kaur, wife of late Sardar Karnail Singh. “Visited Ambala, Haryana to felicitate Smt. Charanjeet Kaur Ji in honour of her husband Sardar Karnail Singh Ji, who attained Martyrdom at Patradevi on 15th August 1955 while bravely fighting for Goa’s liberation against the Portuguese. Presented a Cheque of Rs.10 Lakh as an honour to Smt. Kaur on the occasion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and 60 years of Goa Liberation,” CM said in his tweet. He said Goa is…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Vasco BJP Minority cell, along with Vasco fruit vendors led by Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar, on Wednesday distributed fruits to patients in the Chicalim Sub District Hospital in the presence of Mormmugao Municipal Council (MMC) Chairperson Leo Rodrigues, Municipal councillors and other members of the Vasco BJP Mandal Speaking to the media Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar said that the Chicalim Sub District Hospital was facing an acute shortage of staff and that additional staff would soon be recruited. “When we realised that the Hospital is facing a shortage of staff, we already sent a note to Minister…