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INDIAN IDOL: Sunil Chhetri Panaji: Sunil Chhetri is preparing himself for life without professional football and could be calling it a day at the end of the 2025-26 season, should Bengaluru FC fail to win the Indian Super League (ISL) and qualify for continental championship.“If we win the ISL, it will give me a chance…
Diptayan Ghosh eliminates from the World Cup Ian Nepomniachtchi (X-Europe Echecs) Panaji: Two-time Candidates champion Ian Nepomniachtchi will now probably realise why the top three ranked players in the world skipped the Chess World Cup in Goa. The 35-year-old top-ranked Russian GM, seeded 12 here, got a taste of the strength of Indian chess.India’s unseeded…
PANAJI: Police arrested owners of two north Goa beach belt establishments whose LED signboards displayed “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan in two separate cases. Cops also disconnected the LED boards at Revive Hair Cutting Salon, Baga, and Whiskey Pedia, Arpora, and charged the owners under BNS and IT Act provisions for threatening India’s unity, integrity, security and…
Panaji: Goa police on Sunday arrested five persons including two police personnel in connection with an alleged gunfire case in Pernem linked to sand extraction, where two persons were injured.Police said that the accused used a country-made weapon. crime “Among the arrested individuals, two are personnel from the IRBn police. The arrested accused have been…
Panaji: Much before Goemkarponn became a theme, Mike Mehta was obsessed with the idea of Goanness and used the tiatr stage to tell everyone what it really means to be a Goan. Born Miguel Transfiguracao de Cristo Rodrigues in Borim, Mehta was among the first popular criminal lawyer from his native village in Ponda taluka…
IN REMEMBRANCE: On All Souls’ Day, Catholics make their annual visit to cemeteries to pray for the souls of their departed. Many even offer Masses for the original owners of properties Pensao, a deep-rooted Goan custom, involves inheritors offering Masses or doing social work so that the original owners of the properties find everlasting peace…
Margao/Canacona: Post-monsoon showers that lashed Goa this week damaged approximately 20% of harvest-ready paddy crops across Salcete. “The rains occurred right at the time of harvest. Some of the fields where harvesting was not done got affected. The paddy fell flat, and some of them also sprouted,” Rajesh D’Costa, zonal agriculture officer for Salcete, said.Curtorim,…
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of his generation, is absent from the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, hosted in Goa, India, from October 30 to November 27. The Norwegian five-time world champion, who won the World Cup back in 2023, last claimed the World Championship title in 2021…
Panaji: When India last hosted the Chess World Cup in 2002, Viswanathan Anand emerged as the champion. As the tournament returns home, this time in Goa, the trophy has been renamed as the Viswanathan Anand Cup, a fitting honour for someone who revolutionised the sport in the country.The FIDE World Cup will be held in…
Panaji: State govt has allowed iron ore transportation during the monsoon for domestic consumption within the country, which was earlier only allowed within the state. Also, unlike the earlier fixed-date, three month ban on transportation for exports, govt has decided that it will declare the dates from time to time.State govt amended the Goa mineral…
