Male members of the Malik family perform the dance Keri: Fugdi is primarily a folk dance performed by women of all ages, but in Kudne, male members of Malik family in the Kelmekar faction perform it on the second day of Ganesh Chaturthi.At the centuries-old ancestral house in Chauki, the Malik family celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi…
Colva: Colva police registered an offence against four people and over 150 unidentified individuals for allegedly forming an unlawful assembly, trespassing onto a property, damaging fencing, stealing equipment, issuing threats and using abusive language in Cavelossim.Police said Margao resident Sandeep Shinde lodged a complaint on Friday alleging that James D’Costa, Jane D’Costa, Shelton Fernandes and…
Panaji: Goa stands under pressure today between a rapidly-warming Arabian Sea and a Western Ghats landscape facing growing developmental strains. Climate change is intensifying heat, extreme rainfall, flooding, and coastal risks, while unplanned development is weakening the natural systems that provide protection to communities in Goa, said climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll on Sunday in…
Tejpal surrenders in Goa court, to serve 10 years in rape case PANAJI: Former Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by the Bombay HC last month for raping a junior colleague in a hotel lift in 2013, surrendered before a court in Mapusa, Goa, on Monday.Tejpal had appealed against the order in…
Panaji: Scientists from the Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO) have documented tumor-like skeletal growths in Turbinaria corals for the first time anywhere in the world, warning that the abnormalities could threaten coral health and the marine ecosystems that depend on them.Known as skeletal tissue growth anomalies (STAs), the abnormal, bulbous growths have previously been…
Canacona: Women from remote villages of Gaondongrim, Cotigao, Poinguinim, Shristhal, Agonda and Loliem have been brought together in a women-led farmer producer organisation (FPO) as part of a beekeeping initiative to earn additional income. About 300 women are involved, with proposed annual honey production of 40 kg per woman.The objective is to build a complete…
Leon Mendonca won back-to-back Global Chess League titles with two different teams Panaji: Goa’s Leon Mendonca was part of the Ganges Grandmasters’ title-winning campaign in the Global Chess League (GCL), and the victory, his second in as many years, carried a special significance.“Winning back-to-back Global Chess League titles with two different teams makes this incredibly…
Panaji: BJP Curchorem MLA and former minister Nilesh Cabral said he may have to rethink whether to seek the party ticket for the 2027 assembly elections, claiming BJP did not adequately recognise his work after he stepped down as a minister on party orders.In an interview with Prudent Media, Cabral said that despite being a…
Panaji: GFP’s decision to walk out of an alliance with Congress and join hands with AAP has provided Goan voters with a flashback of 2017, when GFP aligned with BJP despite winning on an anti-BJP plank, said state Congress president Girish Chodankar.He said the GFP-AAP tie-up went against the electorate’s sentiments, and that local NGOs…
Borkar has insisted that none of the MLAs who defected should be allowed to join the alliance Panaji: The Congress and the Revolutionary Goans (RG) have reached an in-principle agreement to contest the 2027 Goa assembly elections together, but the proposed alliance is contingent on the Congress committing to RG’s Person of Goan Origin agenda…
