Shripad underscores need to develop villages
SANKHALI/PANAJI: Development of villages leads to development of states and in turn that of the nation, Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik has said. Naik was speaking after inaugurating...
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Canoes anchored at Ribandar on the Mandovi river on Monday morning due to thick fog. Fishermen delayed fishing owing to lower visibility
View ArticleRs 1-cr GCA fraud: trio’s anticipatory bail plea to be heard on Jan 2
MAPUSA: The anticipatory bail application of Goa Cricket Association (GCA) officials including its president Chetan Dessai, secretary Vinod Phadke and former treasurer Akbar Mulla was placed before the...
View ArticleDacoits strike at Bogmalo flat, take away Rs 5.75 lakh worth jewellery, cash
VASCO: In a daring dacoity in a flat along Bogmalo road, about seven armed persons affected entry into the premises by breaking open the window grills armed with deadly weapons like knife, metal rods...
View ArticleCalangute dacoity: orders on bail plea of 2 cops today
MAPUSA: Arguments on the bail applications of six accused, arrested in the alleged dacoity at Baga-Calangute, were heard by the additional session court judge P V Sawaikar on Tuesday. Order on bail...
View ArticleFive VPs set ball rolling on people’s biodiversity register
Abdul Wahab Khan | NT PANAJI: Biodiversity management committees (BMCs) of five village panchayats have submitted interim reports on people’s biodiversity register (PBR) to the Goa State Biodiversity...
View ArticlePoriem Cong meet stone-pelting: Faleiro alleges BJP hand
PANAJI: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Luizinho Faleiro has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of spreading a culture of intolerance, threat and violence in the state....
View ArticleNo push for switchover to cable TV digitalisation
PANAJI: Although local cable TV operators in the state have got a reprieve in switching over to digital transmission through a notification issued by the ministry of information and broadcasting...
View Articlelose shave for 154 air passengers, crew
VASCO: The 154 passengers and seven crewmembers of a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways airliner had a miraculous escape in the wee hours of Tuesday when the aircraft skidded off the runway, made an abrupt...
View ArticleSiddhesh says cadre won’t tolerate ‘outsider’
PANAJI : BJP’s Cumbharjua block president and an aspirant of the party candidature in the constituency for the 2017 assembly elections, Siddhesh Naik, the son of Union Minister for AYUSH Shripad...
View ArticleParsekar meets brooding Shripad
PANAJI: Strongly supporting the recent entry of Mauvin Godinho and Pandurang Madkaikar in the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Tuesday said that he met Union Minister of...
View ArticleState BJP leaders taking me for granted: Shripad
PANAJI : Stating that he has been deeply hurt due to the attitude of some of the state leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party who are taking him for granted, Union Minister of State for AYUSH...
View ArticleChurch not taken into confidence on new education policy: Archbishop
NT NETWORK PANAJI Archbishop of Goa and Daman Filipe Neri Ferrão on Wednesday stated that the Church was not taken into confidence by the government while preparing the new education policy for the...
View ArticleShripad to move BJP’s central committee
NT NETWORK PANAJI Union Minister of State for AYUSH (independent charge) Shripad Naik on Wednesday said that he would take up with BJP’s central committee the induction of two former Congress leaders...
View ArticleFivefold increase in cashless transactions in Goa: Parrikar
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that the central government was considering various options for reducing transaction fees on cashless modes of payment, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said...
View ArticleBanks say note ban pain will continue
NT NETWORK PANAJI As the demonetisation of high-value currency notes completed 50 days on December 28 and after only a slight improvement in the currency situation, bank officials in the state are...
View ArticleCong will revoke ‘anti-people’ decisions, promises Kamat
NT NETWORK MARGAO Urging people of Goa to vote Congress back to power by defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Margao MLA and former chief minister Digambar Kamat on Wednesday said that if voted...
View Article‘Informer’ makes futile bid to bait AAP’s Panaji candidate with new notes
NT NETWORK PANAJI Panaji police have arrested one Abhay Avasti who allegedly approached Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Panaji candidate Valmiki Naik with an offer to convert old demonetised notes to new...
View ArticleFrancis says shortage of doctors a major concern
NT NETWORK PORVORIM Stating that shortage of doctors is a major concern, Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza, who is also the Health Minister, said that the shortage will continue as long as there is...
View ArticleMandovi bridge construction worker’s death: 3 more held
NT NETWORK PANAJI Panaji police have arrested three more accused in connection with the death of a worker at the under-construction site of third Mandovi bridge. The three accused have been identified...
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