MLA FRANCIS SILVEIRA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER GOAN YOUTH MIGRATING ABROAD
AGENCIES|PANAJI Youngsters are leaving the state and migrating abroad with the help of ‘Portuguese passport’ due to lack of jobs in Goa, Congress MLA Francis Silveira told the state assembly on Monday. He said that the youth, especially from his St. Andre’s constituency, are leaving the coastal state. “They say there are no jobs in Goa and are migrating by taking the…
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GOA’S TANISHA WINS HISTORIC DOUBLE GOLD AT ALL INDIA BADMINTON IN NAGPUR
PANAJI Goa’s upcoming shuttler Tanisha Crasto has achieved the unique and historic feat of winning twin Golds at the All India Badminton Ranking Championships at Nagpur Maharashtra, making her the first Goan to achieve such a feat in a single event. Tanisha achieved the unique distinction in Under 17 Girls doubles and Under 17 Mixed Doubles, with Aditi Bhatt (Uttarakhand) as…
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MAN ARRESTED IN MUMBAI FOR ABDUCTING TEENAGE GIRL FROM GOA
PANAJI A 38-year-old man was arrested today from Dadar railway station in Central Mumbai for allegedly abducting a 16-year-old girl from Goa, police said. The accused, identified as Abdul Amin Mia, was nabbed from the platform no. 5 of Dadar railway station with the help of RPF officials, before he could board a local train with the kidnapped girl, a police…
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JAGAT-CHETAN WIN RFC INDIA OFF-ROAD MOTORSPORT EVENT
PANAJI Veteran rallyist Jagat Nanjappa and co-driver Chetan Changappa of Coorgs Team V5 Offroaders on Saturday emerged as the champions of Isuzu Rainforest Challenge (RFC) India off-road motorsport event. They have won the fifth season of RFC with a total score of 2006 points out of 2600. With this win, Jagat and Chetan have become the second Indian, and the first…
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AMENDING LEASE LAW CAN HELP RESUME GOA MINING: EXPERT
AGENCIES|PANAJI Mining activities can resume immediately if the Centre amends a 1987 law to convert perpetual leases to ancestors of current leaseholders into leases for 50 years from 1987 onwards, former Mining Engineers Association of India president T. Victor said on Saturday. Victor, who was member of a delegation that on Saturday submitted suggestions to the state on resumption of mining,…
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1,000 ‘WAR ROCKETS’ OF TIPU SULTAN FOUND IN KARNATAKA FORT
AGENCIES| BENGALURU Over 1,000 “war rockets” of the 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore state, Tipu Sultan, were found in an abandoned open well at Bidanooru Fort in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, said an official on Saturday. “Excavation of the open well in the fort at Nagara near Shivamogga led to unearthing of over 1,000 corroded rockets that were stored…
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FC GOA LAUNCH WOMEN’S TEAM
PANAJI Indian Super League side FC Goa today launched its official women’s team, ahead of the second Vedanta Goa Women’s Football League. The club, which was a part of the draft that took place at the Goa Football Association office in Panaji on July 25, are only the second ISL club, after FC Pune City, to field a women’s team. The tournament…
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GOVT NOT AGAINST MEAT-EATERS: MAUVIN
PANAJI Goa’s Animal Husbandry Minister Mauvin Godinho on Friday told the Assembly that the BJP-led government in the state was not against meat-eaters and that efforts were being made to reopen the state’s only legal slaughterhouse soon. Godinho blamed vested interests for trying to create an impression that the BJP government was against non-vegetarians. “We believe in carrying everybody along and there…
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GOA WILL SERVE NOTICE TO KARNATAKA OVER MAHADAYI WATER DIVERSION: PALYEKAR
PANAJI The Goa government will serve notice to Karnataka for ‘diverting’ the water of Mahadayi River to Malaprabha basin even as the two states are locked in a dispute over sharing the river’s waters, minister Vinod Palyekar told the Legislative Assembly on Friday. The minister told the House that, following the serving of this notice, the Goa government would file an…
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COOK BOOKED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER
CALANGUTE A cook was arrested on Friday on the charge of attempted murder of a colleague at a resort in Baga over theft of cigarettes, police said. Accused Saiful Sarkar, 21, of Dakshin Dinajpur in West Bengal, was arrested for the murderous attack on a Nepal native Gyan Bahadur, Inspector Jivba Dalvi of Calangute police station told reporters. “Sarkar stabbed his colleague…
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