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German tourists take app-based taxi in Goa, local cabbies hound PANAJI: Yet another video has surfaced of tourists in Goa forced to trudge a distance until they can catch a ride with GoaMiles, with a German travel influencer facing the brunt this time in Patnem. Alex Welder claimed that a rickshaw driver demanded Rs 500…
PANAJI: The world’s best chess players can range from eccentric to equable when it comes to temperament, but they usually stick to formals at major events like the World Cup. Not at this year’s edition in Goa, though, with many grandmasters making their move — to humble denim.It all started in Dec last year when…
PANAJI: Authorities in Goa have promised stricter action and heightened patrolling after recent incidents of harassment involving tourists at popular beaches. A video from Arambol beach showed a group of men forcing two foreign women to pose for photographs. The men were seen putting their arms around the women, who appeared visibly uncomfortable and reluctant….
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,…
