FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024
PANJIM, NOV 22 The High Court?s lashing to the police in the investigating pertaining to the German minor?s rape case on Friday may have left them flustered, even as they have been left with no choice but to tighten up the investigation once again.
MARGAO, NOV 22 The factional feud in the Save Goa Front further intensified on Saturday with the Raul Pereira faction resolving not to support Party candidate Jose Lobo in the Pale Assembly poll and has dissolved the Committee headed by Anton Gauncar.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Noted Konkani litterateur Ravindra Kelekar was today named for Jnanpith award ? country?s highest literary award ? bringing joy to the Konkani world as this is the first time the prestigious award has gone to Konkani language and also the first time to a Goan writer.
OLD GOA, NOV 22 The Old Goa Garbage Action Committee on Saturday convened a meeting at Old Goa panchayat hall to protest the State Government?s decision to hand over the Bainguinim site to the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) for garbage disposal.
NEW DELHI, NOV 22 In a significant confidence building statement, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today declared that his country will not be the first to use nuclear weapons against India and proposed that South Asia should have a ?non-nuclear (weapon) treaty?.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said efforts would be made to brand IFFI after Goa and assured of the State?s support to catapult IFFI-Goa to one of the best film festivals in the world.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Ave Maria Spots Club, Muscat won the All India GCO Swift Connections Cup 2008 ? one-day football tournament ? defeating CBD Boys, Muscat by a solitary goal victory in the final played at Al Khuwair grounds, Muscat, Oman.
PORVORIM, NOV 22 The work of the District Institute of Technical Education (DITE), Porvorim, cricket ground is nearing completion and the Goa Cricket Association (GCA) is all set to host the matches of All India South Zone tournament, beginning from November 26.
MARGAO, NOV 22 A splendid hat-trick by striker Shambu Kuttikar enabled Maina Sports Club to crush Salcete Football Club 3-1 in the GFA?s Second Division League at Raia panchayat grounds on Saturday.
MARGAO, NOV 22 St Mary?s High School, Margao annexed the Salcete taluka Under-14 boys title defeating St Aloysius High School, Benaulim 2-0 in the inter-school football tournament, organised by Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, at Nehru Stadium (outside grounds),
PANJIM, NOV 22 ?Cyclops? ? the table tennis robot has been installed at the Vasco Table Tennis Academy. It is capable of continuously feeding table tennis balls of the desired stroke and spin for practice and perfection.
MARGAO, NOV 22 Sesa Football Academy, another growing Goa force will be playing their first Federation Cup and crossing swords with Integral Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai on November 23 in Bangalore.
MARGAO, NOV 22 An exciting contest is on the cards when table toppers Sporting Clube de Goa take on Mumbai?s Air India in the 10th round match of 2nd ONGC I-League match at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda on Sunday, at 4 pm.
PANAJIM, NOV 22 Anjuna Gymkhana will be the unstarred side among the five Goa teams which will take part in the prestigious all-India Manchester United Cup Under-15 soccer championship (west and south zones) from November 26-28 at Nehru stadium, Fatorda.
BANGALORE, NOV 22 Salgaocar Sports Club thrashed the hopes of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) of leading Group ?A? by defeating hosts 2-1 in the 30th Federation Cup Preliminary Knock Out match played at Bangalore Football Stadium here today. The teams were locked 1-1 at half time.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Former Double World Under-8 Girls Champion Ivana Maria Furtado and former Goa State champion Anurag Mhamal did Goa proud by finishing in the prize list of the National Under-13 Chess Championships, which concluded at the Vellore Institute of Technology at Vellore today.
LUDHIANA, NOV 22 After two consecutive defeats, JCT, Phagwara took full advantage of their home turf to notch up a solitary goal win over East Bengal in the ninth round of their I-League encounter here today.
PANJIM, NOV 22 The 39th edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) got underway at a colourful ceremony at star-studded Kala Academy Saturday evening setting the stage for reels rolling for ten days.
It's a well-known fact that Mani Ratnam likes to shoot in complete isolation and at a stretch without any interruption.
Actor Sharman Joshi is mighty disappointed that he opted out of the sequel to 'Golmaal'- the smash hit 'Golmaal Returns'.
Among the many newcomers who made a lasting impression this year (2008) is the tall and sexy actress Sonal Chauhan. The babe debuted opposite Emraan Hashmi in Mukesh Bhatt's Jannat and the movie even went on to become a Superhit, yet Sonal hasn't been seen or heard of much since then.
Even as there is speculation galore in media and film circles about his impending marriage with girlfriend Katrina Kaif, Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan continues to evade all queries on the subject, saying that it will happen whenever there is God?s wills.
MARGAO, NOV 22 Speakers at a symposium on ?Terrorism in India ? Do we need to re-enact POTA ? have said that the law makers should come out with a new Legislation to fight terrorism in the country minus the defects and draconian provisions in the TADA and POTA Acts.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Sharon, the ?Original Voice of Goa? will perform for the Entertainment Society of Goa, during IFFI. Her programmes will be held at Bodgeshwar Ground, Mapusa, on 27 November at 6.30 pm, and at Costa Grounds, Aquem, Margao, on 29 November at 6.30pm.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Alongside the glittering start of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here, an altogether more modest parallel ?Goan Peoples? Film Festival? was launched at the Institute Piedade in the city.
CANACONA, NOV 22 The 108 service started by EMRI has become a favourite among the residents in just less than 3 months period, but the masses in Canacona taluka seems to be not yet fully adapted to the high medically equipped ambulance facility giving free attention, transportation and medical service.
PANJIM, NOV 22 A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Nelson Britto on Thursday directed the state government to file its reply within three weeks to Writ Petition No.
CALANGUTE, NOV 22 Panic gripped customers and business houses at Porba Vaddo-Calangute on Saturday evening after smoke billowed from an ATM booth.
VASCO, NOV 22 In a tragic incident, a 30-year-old youth from Katem-Baina who had come down from Unites States to tie knot with his beloved, drowned in the deep sea off Baina shore on Saturday afternoon.
VASCO, NOV 22 Vasco police recently arrested three youth for their alleged involvement in stealing cash of Rs 3,000 from a grocery shop at New Vaddem in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
PANJIM, NOV 22 The Bombay High Court at Goa has upheld the order of the Special Court, North Goa of framing charges under Prevention of Corruption Act, against the peon of Agriculture Department for his alleged role in cheating a nationalised bank along with four others to the tune of Rs 95 lakh.
MARGAO, NOV 22 Margao police late Friday night arrested four youngsters from Moti Dongor after they were allegedly caught red handed while stealing petrol from a motorcycle.
MARGAO, NOV 22 The emergency handling of the waste at Sonsodo with expertise from Goa Foundation will finally get underway from November 27.
MARGAO, NOV 22 The United Goans Welfare Front has appealed to Home Minister Ravi Naik to set up a secret team to trap corrupt police officers working for monetary benefits along with criminals and anti-social elements who are working against the public.
VASCO, NOV 22 A cleaner of a trailer was hurt, while around 3,000 litres of petrol went down the drain after a iron plates loaded trailer rammed into a petroleum tanker near Meta Strips at Verna on Saturday at about 2.45 pm.
MAYEM, NOV 22 Even as all the candidates for the Pale Assembly by-poll are busy with their election campaign, the offices of deputy collector and mamlatdar, Bicholim, are gearing up to conduct election smoothly.
MARGAO, NOV 22 An agitated SGF President Anton Gauncar has threatened to file a criminal case against the President of rival faction of the party, Raul Pereira for asking the voters of Pale Assembly constituency not to vote for the party candidate, Jose Lobo.
PANJIM, NOV 22 The Bombay High Court at Goa on Monday directed that written arguments be filed within two weeks in the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed challenging the appointments of Nilkanth Harlankar and Francisco Silveira as parliamentary secretaries and conferring of cabinet status to Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Chairman Agnelo Fernandes,
MAYEM, NOV 22 Jaganath Parab, an election campaign chief of independent candidate Dr Suresh Amonkar for the Pale Assembly by-poll, has strongly refuted the allegation made by Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar with regard to Dr Amonkar?s property.
MARGAO, NOV 22 Colva police rescued a minor girl who was employed as a domestic help at Gandaulim-Colva and has arrested a senior citizen under the Goa Children?s Act this morning.
MARGAO, NOV 22 Agitated residents of Murida-Fatorda are up in arms over the mushrooming shanties in the locality, believed to housing over 1000 migrant construction labour.
PANJIM, NOV 22 The status of a Central university could well be acceptable to the University and College Teachers Association Goa (UCTAG), but it comes with many riders that may be hard to accept by the Centre.
PANJIM, NOV 22 Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, Goa, has demanded withdrawal of the documentary ? Through the Eyes of the Painter ? on M F Hussain scheduled to be screened during IFFI in Panjim.
