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Mumbai, October 30, 2020: Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL) today announced the first 11 rounds of fixtures for the 2020-21 Hero Indian Super League (ISL). Marking the return of the first major live sporting action in the country, the 7th season of India’s premier football league kicks off with the defending champions ATK Mohun Bagan squaring off against Kerala Blasters FC on Friday, November 20, at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim, Goa. New entrants SC East Bengal will make their Hero ISL debut playing in one of the oldest rivalries in Asian football – the Kolkata Derby. For the first time…

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PANJIM: The state government today in a circular has revised the Diwali and Christmas for the schools for academic year 2020-21. According to the circular, the Diwali vacation from 9th to 20th November 2020 while Christmas break from 24th to 31st December 2020. Earlier, the Diwali vacations were from November 9 to November 28 whereas the Christmas break used to begin on December 24 and end on January 2. Further, Discretionary holiday may be availed on 26th November on the occasion of Tulshi Vivah

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PANJIM: With tourism slowly picking up in the state, Goa International Airport on Thursday handles 31 arrivals and 31 departures. As per the information Dabolim Airport received 4,567 passengers while the departing passengers were 2893. “We handled 31 arrivals and 31 departures of the flights yesterday. Recd 4567 arrival pax and 2893 dep pax.The footfall at Goa International Airport is picking up with every passing day,” Goa Airport said in a tweet Meanwhile, Goa airport eyes touching 80 percent flight handling capacity by December-end

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Margao: Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat has urged the South Goa Collector to withdraw permission for work on level crossings at Nessai and Chandor failing which could lead to law and order problem. “This is to bring to your notice that there is strong opposition to the three Mega Projects proposed by the government namely Railway Double Tracking, Widening of National Highway and Laying of Power Transmission Line as these projects will cause severe damage to the Environment,” he said in a letter to Collector. Kamat further stated that the people of Goa are now coming on roads protesting against…

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Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today has announced that State government has cancelled Satellite Port at Betul under Sagarmala project. He was speaking after the inauguration of cleaning and de-silting works at Selaulim Irrigation Project Canal under MGNREGA. “State government has canceled the satellite port at Betul under sagarmala project,” CM Sawant said He further said that the opposition is trying to play dirty politics on this issue. Meanwhile, the chief minister has also accused the opposition of misguiding people on various projects as elections are fast approaching.

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Panaji: The State Government has constituted a 23 member committee under chairmanahip of former South Goa MP Narendra Sawaikar – “Sugarcane Farmers Facilitation Committee” for Sanjivini Sahakari Sakhar Katkhana. Prasad Gaonkar, MLA, Vasudev Meng Gaonkar, Subhash Phal Desai, Ramesh Tawadkar, Satish Tendulkar, Rajendra Desai, Harshad S. P. Desai, are amongst the members. The order issued by Director Agriculture says the committee shall recommend appropriate measures to resolve the hardship faced by the sugarcane farmers. This Committee shall report to State Level Committee.

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Panaji: A complaint has been lodged at Goa Police Cyber Cell for posting controversial post on social media attacking Hindu religion and its culture and tradition. The complaint by Rajiv Jha of Gaonkarwada Usgao, Ponda alleged that Shilpa Surendra Pratap Singh who is working at V M Salagaoncar College of law situated at Miramar Goa as an Assistant professor and has a personal facebook account as Shilpa Surendra Pratap Singh has made a habit of posting controversial post on social media time and again attacking Hindu religion and its culture and tradition. “In one of her recent…

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