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Team Goemkarponn NAVELIM: The Department of BBA Travel & Tourism at Rosary College of Commerce and Arts, Navelim, Goa, organized ENTRADA’25, a one-day national-level inter-collegiate event, on 11th September 2025 at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, to mark World Tourism Day. The event, themed “Tourism & Sustainable Transformation”, featured on-stage and off-stage competitions designed to raise awareness about sustainability in tourism. The inaugural ceremony included a prayer service, lamp lighting, and a Sustainability Oath, with Chief Guest Mr. Manish Khanna, Executive Director of Eastern International Hotels Ltd., addressing students on India’s tourism development, preserving Goa’s traditions, and the role of hotels…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: A delegation of Canacona taxi drivers met Sports, Tribal Welfare, and Art & Culture Minister and Canacona MLA Ramesh Tawadkar, and later CMC Chairperson Sara Naik Dessai, to raise concerns over the operations of app-based taxi service Goa Miles, alleging that it is affecting their livelihood. The taximen claimed that Goa Miles vehicles freely pick up customers in Canacona, stay overnight, and return with new passengers, depriving local taxi operators of business. “Goa Miles are free to drop customers as much as they want, but their practice of halting and returning with passengers leaves us with…

Team Goemkarponn Panjim: Don Bosco Oratory Fatorda booked their place in the quarterfinals of the 14th Our Lady of Fatima Cup 2025, organised by Dicarpale Sports Club, after defeating Nuvem Sports Club 7-6 via the tiebreaker at the Dicarpale ground. Nuvem SC drew first blood in the 9th minute through Ivo Colaco, before Hanshlum Furtado netted the equaliser for Don Bosco in the 70th minute, taking the match to a 1-1 draw at full time. In the ensuing tiebreaker, Don Bosco’s Hanshlum Furtado, Velito Miranda, Milson Barreto, Edger Noronha, Alfred Noronha and Charles Miranda all converted their spot kicks.…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has struck off four more Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPPs) from Goa in its second phase of a nationwide cleanup exercise. These parties were delisted for failing to contest a single election in the past six years, as required under the Representation of the People Act, 1951. This move comes just weeks after the ECI had removed another four Goan parties — Goa Nationalist Party, Goa Praja Party, Goemearancho Otrec Asro, and United Goans Party — during the first round of action on August 9. With the latest order, a…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The first meeting of the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) for the year 2025-26 was held at Panaji under the chairmanship of Union MoS for Power, Shripad Naik. Commissioner-cum-Secretary (Revenue) Sandip Jaques, IAS, and Member Secretary, Collector (North Goa) Ankit Yadav, IAS, were present, along with heads and representatives of various line departments and public representatives from different local bodies. The committee reviewed the progress of multiple centrally sponsored schemes and discussed strategies for effective implementation to ensure timely delivery of benefits to the people.

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: The District Magistrate, North Goa, has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 around the Goa Assembly Complex at Porvorim and within the jurisdiction of Panaji Police Station in view of the upcoming Eleventh Session of the Eighth Legislative Assembly, scheduled for September 25. The order bans the assembly of five or more persons, processions, carrying of firearms or offensive weapons, use of loudspeakers, sloganeering, and burning of fire within a 500-meter radius of the Assembly Complex and nearby areas. Exemptions have been made for public servants on duty, bona fide marriage and funeral processions, and other…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI:Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant handed over appointment letters to more than 900 youth at the Rojgar Melava held under the Sewa Pakhwada initiative at Kala Academy, Panaji, while announcing a larger recruitment drive that will create over 7,500 government jobs in the next two years. Sawant said that 5,000 positions will be filled through the Goa Human Resource Development Corporation (GHRDC), while another 2,500 will be rolled out shortly under the Staff Selection Commission. He urged the newly appointed youth to view their jobs not just as employment but as public service. “Every role, whether in…