IMA chief wants sex-determination test to be made mandatory to track female...
Stating that it is difficult to track every sonography examination of pregnant women, president of Indian Medical Association (IMA) Dr Medha Salkar, in an interview with Abdul Wahab Khan recommends the...
View ArticlePolice struggling to block websites promoting matka
PANAJI: With a series of raids across the state, police had claimed to have literally suspended matka gambling activities in the state. However, the police are now apparently struggling to block...
View ArticleDelimitation exercise: Salcete panchayats may get 8 new wards
NAVELIM: While the exercise of delimitation of wards for the ensuing panchayat elections is in progress, Salcete taluka could see the inclusion of eight new wards. The delimitation will also put an end...
View ArticleAll parties against contesting panchayat polls on symbols
PANAJI: The state’s ruling and opposition political parties, which normally have a difference of opinion on various issues, are interestingly on the same page on the issue of holding the village...
View ArticleParsekar blocked proposals under Swachh Bharat mission: Dhavalikar
PANAJI: Minister for Public Works Department Ramakrishna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar on Saturday said that during the tenure of the Parsekar government, the finance department held by then chief minister...
View ArticleWe will ban cow slaughter, beef eating in Goa: VHP
NT NETWORK VASCO Vishwa Hindu Parishad general secretary (central) Acharya Radhakrishna Manori on Sunday said the VHP was capable of imposing a total ban on cow slaughter and beef consumption in Goa...
View ArticleIllegal mining scam continues to haunt Digambar
NT NETWORK PANAJI The special investigating team probing the cases pertaining to the alleged multi-crore mining illegalities has summoned former chief minister Digambar Kamat and the then two mining...
View ArticleParsekar crosses swords with Sudin on Swachh Bharat toilets
NT NETWORK PANAJI Categorically denying that he, as the chief minister and finance minister had blocked any proposal from the public works department relating to the Swachh Bharat Mission, former chief...
View ArticleSonshi villagers stage dharna seeking release of ore transportation protestors
NT NETWORK VALPOI More than 40 villagers including children and women from Sonshi in Sattari taluka, on Sunday evening, staged a dharna at the Valpoi police station in protest against the arrest of...
View ArticleMapusa civic body to temporarily relocate beef, pork stalls
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) will be temporarily relocating the beef and pork stalls, which are presently housed in the building which has outlived its life and now posing...
View ArticleRestore CCTV cameras, intensify night patrolling, demand St Jacinto islanders
NT NETWORK VASCO Residents of St Jacinto Island have demanded that the police authorities should intensify night patrolling at St Jacinto bridge and restore non-functional CCTVs on the bridge in order...
View ArticleAlina: govt will accord priority to development
NT NETWORK VASCO Cortalim MLA Alina Saldanha has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in the state will accord priority to development projects in Cortalim constituency. Saldanha...
View ArticleVegetable production on rise in Salcete, says agriculture department
NT NETWORK MARGAO Salcete comprising of sixty-six villages has a soil that is apt for growing vegetables, however, leafy vegetables are not cultivated regularly. According to sources in the zonal...
View ArticleFatal accidents: CM calls for emergency meeting
PANAJI: In the backdrop of alarming rise in fatal road accidents in the state, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday called for emergency meeting on April 18 at 9.30 am at his official residence...
View ArticleVHP statement on banning beef draws sharp reactions
MARGAO: The general secretary Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Acharya Radhakrishna Manori’s statement on banning beef and cow slaughter in Goa has evoked sharp reactions in the minority- dominated...
View ArticleLuizinho: BJP has hidden agenda in VHP’s beef ban statement
PANAJI: Condemning the statement of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) general secretary Acharya Radhakrishna Manori about banning beef in Goa, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Luizinho...
View ArticleSudin: over 70% of proposed Swachh Bharat toilets were built during last tenure
PANAJI: Minister for Public Works Department, Ramakrishna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar, on Monday, said that he, as the minister with the same portfolio in the last government, had managed to complete the...
View ArticleLaadli Laxmi beneficiaries on the rise but child sex ratio still declining
ABDUL WAHAB KHAN|NT PANAJI: While the number of beneficiaries under the schemes meant for saving girl child has been increasing exceptionally since 2011, ironically the child sex ratio is declining in...
View ArticleEfforts on to keep KFD off Pernem
PANAJI: Alarmed by rising cases of monkey deaths in border areas of Pernem taluka raising the spectre of Kyasanur forest disease, Minister for Tourism Manohar ‘Babu’ Azgaonkar on Monday directed...
View ArticlePeople make light of KFD vaccination
PANAJI: Despite the Kyasanur forest disease raising its ugly head in the state, some 5,000 people have failed to turn up to get the second dose of the vaccination against the disease. The skipping of...
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