Wednesday 06 November 2024

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Society | People

Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Goa for BRICS

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit India, Cambodia and Bangladesh this week during which he would take part in the Brics Summit in Goa. READ

LOLA Suman B: Goa’s young gift to the world of fashion!

A young entrepreneur of Goa has not only attracted the whole Bollywood towards her designer labels but has also shown a path of success to Goa’s ‘designer talent’ beyond the Arabian sea, sitting here in ... READ

BJP leader Advani’s wife Kamla dies of heart attack

Veteran BJP leader LK Advani’s wife, Kamla Advani, died of heart attack on Wednesday. READ

Quitting as RJs, two young Goan women become ‘national’ entrepreneurs

Can you ever think of quitting a job that gives you handsome salary and a celebrity status, that too when you are young enough to cherish it and reach new heights? READ

Forensic expert raises questions while police close Fr Bismarque case as accident

While Goa police has called the death of priest-turned-activist Fr Bismarque Dias as an accident, a group of social activists have demanded a fresh probe by registering it as murder, based on a parallel forensic ... READ

Tribute to Sangma: School drop-out who could have become President

At the young age of 11, Purno Agitok Sangma lost his father, following which poverty forced him to quit school. READ

Circling the world 5440 times in a year, they return from space...

Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey. READ

CBI questions Sanatan Chief as Sadhaks surround Ramnathi HQ

Hard-line Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha's founder-chief Dr Jayant Athavale was questioned earlier this month by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the murder of anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar's in August 2013. READ

Freedom fighter and rationalist Vasant Karapurkar no more

Goa’s eminent freedom fighter and rationalist intellectual Vasant Karapurkar passed away today afternoon. READ

He wanted to blast railway bridges, Portuguese tortured him for 4 weeks…

Late Subhash Karmali was destined to be a freedom fighter. He had in him all that was essential to take on the might of Portuguese Junta under the dreaded PIDE Chief Casimiro Monteiro ... READ