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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: On the occasion of International Daughter’s Day, celebrated this 25th of September, BLive has curated a special tour on e-bikes to commemorate the day: A Daughter’s Day out on the island of Divar. The special e-bike tour will commence from the Old Goa Residency, Ella road, at 11:00 am and transition with a ferry ride across the Mandovi river to settle in the quaint but picturesque island of Divar. Every great escapade needs a leader, and at the forefront of the tour, a knowledgeable tour guide will lead the way from the start to the end of…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: ‘Team Goa’ was accorded a send-off at a special programme at Estela Hall, Clube Tennis De Gaspar Dias, Miramar, today. The state athletes/sportspersons will participate in athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, football, gymnastics, judo, kabaddi, mallakhamb, athletics, triathlon and wushu at the ongoing National Games 2022 in Gujarat. Sports Minister Govind Gaude, Union Minister & GOA President Shripad Naik, Secretary Sports Ajit Roy, SAG Executive Director Ajay Gaude, GOA Secretary-General Gurudatta Bhakta and ‘Chef De Mission’ Anagha Warlikar graced the occasion and distributed the kits to the participating teams and athletes/officials. Arjuna Awardee Bruno Coutinho and…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Following demands for scrapping of TCP amendments, the Town and Country Planning Minister Vishwajit Rane said that the Golf Course and Film City plans already existed in Regional Plan 2021. Rane, taking to social media, also took a dig at the people opposing amendments saying the people had also opposed five-star hotels in Goa years ago, but today they have become the backbone of Goa. “While deciding which activities would be permitted, we took great care to ensure that these activities would not densify the areas and place an additional burden on the State’s infrastructure. We have…

Goemkarponn desk MORMUGAO: A Unit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Mumbai this morning raided the residence of member of the Popular Front of India at Sada in Mormugao. As per information, the raid began at 3.10 am with 20 NIA officers. No arrests had been made, but some material was seized during the raid. A total of 106 PFI leaders have been arrested so far from 11 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country. The maximum number of arrests were made in Kerala (22), followed by…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – The villagers of Khotigao have demanded that the government declare the heritage ‘Kosambakadem’, Boskai (Meeting -Seats), a traditional Meeting-Point of the villagers at Baddem, a Protected Site of the State. The Meeting-Seats set (locally called ‘Boskai’) is located at Kosambakadem (near Kosamba Tree) amidst the thick forests at Baddem in Khotigao village has natural stone-curved Chairs and Benches, and locals occasionally or whenever the need arises, meet at the venue to discuss the good or bad that comes or befalls on the villagers. Devidas Gaonkar, an environmentalist, tribal and social activist, writer and poet, was recently…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Social activist Adv Aires Rodrigues has claimed that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and MLA Babush Monserrate have taken the people of Ribandar for a ride by falsely promising us that at the Old Ribandar Hospital, a 30 bedded facility with a 24×7 Casualty cum Trauma unit equipped with all the required facilities would be set up and expanded in stages to be a fully-fledged Hospital. He said that the Old Ribandar Hospital premises have been given away to a Tamil Nadu-based company to set up Siddha Clinical Research Unit under the Ayush Ministry. “Our Old Ribandar Hospital…

Goemkarponn desk DABOLIM: Arriving late evening from their much-talked-about Delhi trip, the two turncoat MLAs Sankalp Amonkar and Kedar Naik said their entry into BJP was purely for development and expressed confidence they would add value to the party. Mormugao MLA, speaking to reporters, said that the Delhi visit was only for introduction and induction. “There was no demand or discussion on anything apart from this. We went to Delhi on Sunday and met National Party president J P Naddaji and Home Minister Amit Shahji along with our CM Dr Pramod Sawant, Goa BJP President Sadanand Tanavade, and MP Vinay…