Kirtan has been medium of social teaching for centuries: Baviskar
NT NETWORK BICHOLIM Kirtan scholar Chakor Baviskar said that kirtan has been a medium of social teaching for centuries and it is the need of hour that kirtan tradition is maintained and enriched for...
View ArticleGarbage dumping: 1136 cases booked in South Goa in 2016
NT NETWORK MARGAO Police stations in South Goa including Margao have booked 1136 cases under the Goa Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act for the year 2016. Heaps of garbage can be seen every day by...
View Article17 cases of sexual abuse of minor children reported last year
SHYAM ZAMBAULIKER | NT MARGAO The Goa Children’s Act that was enacted in 2003 and amended in 2005 aims to protect the rights of those with age less than 18 years and create a child-friendly society....
View ArticleBakre: inequality between organised, unorganised sector workers should be...
NT NETWORK CURCHOREM The Goa State Legal Services Authority in association with District Legal Services Authority, South Goa organised awareness programme on legal services to the workers in the...
View ArticleShivaji still lives in hearts of people owing to his values: Hawaldar
NT NETWORK PONDA Secretary of Information and Publicity Daulat Hawaldar, on Sunday, said that for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj it was his unconditional service to his ‘rayats’ (citizens) that made him a...
View ArticleChajja of Desterro building collapses
VASCO: A major tragedy was averted as chajja of an apartment in Desterro in Mormugao came crashing to the ground during the wee hours on Monday. Luckily there was no casualty as the incident occurred...
View ArticleNo extension officers for Salcete panchayats; work badly affected
MARGAO: The panchayat block of Salcete, having thirty village panchayats under it, has a sanctioned strength of two extension officers (EOPs), but in reality there is none to deal with the work....
View ArticleUsgao school imbroglio: students attend classes in verandah
PONDA: Over 200 students who had boycotted classes last week at Dhavshire, Usgao due to poor infrastructure attended the first day in the unfurnished school building by sitting on the floor while some...
View ArticleGCZMA issues stop order to Cavelossim sea wall works
CAVELOSSIM: The work of sea training wall taken up by the directorate of fisheries at Cavelossim as part of Rs 100 crore project has run into fresh controversy with Goa Coastal Zone Management...
View ArticlePWD introduces spot billing for water consumers
PANAJI: Amidst complaints of irregular and inflated bills, the Public Works Department (PWD) has introduced spot billing system which will be implemented for all water consumers in a phased manner....
View ArticlePower dept is ‘headless’
PANAJI: The electricity department has been functioning without a fulltime chief electrical engineer since April 2013, except for a brief period of one year. At present Laxmikant Kolvekar has been...
View ArticleCEO brushes off demand to cancel postal ballot voting
PANAJI: Brushing off the demand of many political parties contesting the state assembly election in the state to cancel postal ballots system followed for government employees, who had been...
View ArticleSC order not applicable to bars in hotels, restaurants: TTAG
PANAJI: The Travels and Tourism Association of Goa in its memorandum submitted to Chief Secretary Dharmendra Sharma has said the SC judgement directing states and Union territories to not grant and...
View ArticleProspective brides get hoodwinked
AMRESH PARAB | NT PANAJI : Prospective brides are among the targets of cyber criminals who befriend them through matrimony websites and subsequently hoodwink them on the pretext of marriage. In one...
View ArticleReprimand deters teachers from turning to corporal punishment
PANAJI: The cases pertaining to teachers beating up students in Goan schools have drastically come down during the past one year following immediate retaliation from the parents of the ‘victim’...
View ArticleMargao couple injured as truck rams into car
NT NETWORK PONDA A couple from Margao was injured after a speeding truck rammed into their car near Sai Baba temple at Borim on Tuesday afternoon. The injured have been identified as Vinay Nair (40)...
View ArticleScamsters cash in on shopping portals
AMRESH PARAB | NT PANAJI A number of customers have been reportedly cheated by scamsters posing as sellers on some online shopping sites where an individual can post free advertisements on buying and...
View ArticleHC delivers blow to golf course project
NT NETWORK PANAJI The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday asked Leading Hotels Ltd, the promoter of Tiracol golf course and resort project, to obtain afresh tenancy free certificates for the...
View ArticleBoozers continue defiling Goa
NT NETWORK PANAJI Even six months after amending the Excise Duty Act 1964 prohibiting consumption of alcohol at certain places, the state government has not yet notified ‘no-alcohol consumption zones’...
View ArticleGoing too far: citing poll code, CCP cancels meeting
NT NETWORK PANAJI There is something not-so-ordinary about the ordinary meeting of the councillors of the Corporation of the City of Panaji, convened on February 21 and subsequently cancelled citing...
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