It’s ‘ghar wapsi’ for breakaway RSS unit
PANAJI: Admitting that causing a split in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by carving out a separate Goa Prant, was no less than committing a sin, Subhash Velingkar, who headed the Goa Prant, announced...
View ArticleSancoale villagers stage protest over garbage dumping
VASCO: The villagers of Sancoale, on Monday, staged protest over the dumping of a large quantities of garbage including industrial waste near Sindolim, Sancoale. The villagers informed that they saw a...
View ArticleLocals make merry as xinnaneo surface along Tiracol river bank
Bhiva P Parab | NT PANAJI: If you happen to cross Kiranpani-Aronda bridge these days, you will see canoes carrying xinnaneo or green mussels. The Tiracol river rocks are covered with xinnaneo after a...
View ArticleRachol incident: two students had gone to St Joseph Vaz Shrine the previous day
MARGAO: The two students – Sanny Agrawal and Bhojraj Sikarwar of BITs Pilani Goa, who desecrated the Holy Communion of the Catholic faith and created communal tension at Rachol village on Sunday,...
View ArticleBicholim-Pernem stretch prone to monkey fever: epidemiologist
PANAJI: No case of Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) has been reported in Pernem even though seven monkeys were found dead in the last two weeks. According to Dr Utkarsh Betodkar, epidemiologist,...
View ArticleTragic photo session: Chimbel youth knocked down by train at Dauje
PANAJI: A photo session on a railway bridge proved fatal for a youth from Chimbel, who died reportedly after being hit by a train. Konkan Railway police have identified the deceased as 22-year-old...
View ArticleLaw dept approves biodiversity rules
PANAJI: After much delay the law department has finally vetted and approved the Goa State Biodiversity Rules, 2017. The rules have now been forwarded to the Chief Secretary for notification. It took...
View ArticleCansarvarnem PHC’s KFD vaccination drive from today
MAPUSA: The Primary Health Centre, Cansarvarnem will be starting KFD or monkey fever vaccination drive from Wednesday. PHC officials are aiming to vaccinate around 200-300 people residing in the area...
View ArticleCentre asks Goa police to follow uniform accident recording format
PANAJI: With an idea to bring out the real cause of accidents so that corrective and preventive measure can be taken, the transport research wing of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has written...
View ArticleCity market vendors sore over power disconnection
PANAJI: Many vendors at the city market complex are agitated over the disconnection of power supply since Monday morning. The vendors on Tuesday urged the sopo collector to restore the power supply....
View ArticlePower dept to explore legal option to recover dues
PANAJI: A day after disconnecting the power supply to the city market complex over the Corporation of City of Panaji’s (CCP) failure to clear the power dues, the electricity department, on Tuesday,...
View ArticleKarnataka can’t bully Goa on Mhadei: Rane
Opposition leader Pratapsing Rane says that Karnataka, a big state, cannot bully a small state like Goa for diverting water of the Mhadei river. In an interview with Soiru Velip, the veteran...
View ArticleCCP appoints team to get back its dues
PANAJI : Commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji Deepak Desai on Tuesday appointed a 10-member team with Dr Geeta Nagvenkar, the deputy Commissioner of the CCP as its overall in-charge,...
View ArticleCCP appoints team to get back its dues
PANAJI : Commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji Deepak Desai on Tuesday appointed a 10-member team with Dr Geeta Nagvenkar, the deputy Commissioner of the CCP as its overall in-charge,...
View ArticleMhadei diversion will spell doom for sand mining in Goa: experts
SHOMA PATNAIK | NT PANAJI : The proposed diversion of Mhadei (Mandovi) river will hit sand mining in Goa, experts have warned. Speaking to ‘The Navhind Times’ on Tuesday, they said that reduction in...
View ArticleECI unlikely to scrap postal ballot voting
PANAJI: The Election Commission of India is unlikely to scrap the postal ballot voting being held as part of the assembly elections in the state, as the issue has been discussed at the eleventh...
View ArticleHealth officer takes stock of garbage, sewage issues in airport vicinity
VASCO: The health officer of Vasco Urban Health Centre Dr Rashmi Khandeparkar, on Wednesday, conducted a site inspection of the overflowing sewage from the sewage treatment plant (STP) and dumping of...
View ArticleTraffic hit for hours as truck turns on its side at Raia
MARGAO : A soda-bottles laden truck proceeding to Secunderabad from Margao skid off and fell on its side as the driver failed to negotiate a speed-breaker at Raia early Wednesday morning thereby...
View ArticlePonda PWD officials gheraoed over water shortage
PONDA: Hundreds of villagers especially women from Durgabhat and Warkhandem gheraoed junior engineer at Daag-Ponda PWD office on Wednesday morning over acute water shortage in their areas. Villagers...
View ArticleCity market woes continue; toilets run out of water
PANAJI: Vendors in the Panaji market premises, who are bearing the brunt over power supply, are also made to run from pillar to post as toilets ran out of water. Many female vendors and tenants, who...
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