108 service to get 10 new fully-equipped ambulances
PANAJI: Stating that ten new advanced life-saving ambulances, complete with equipment from oxygen cylinder to ventilator would be added to the fleet of 108 emergency response service of the government...
View ArticleSattari farmers to move HC for relief from wild animals
VALPOI: Disturbed by the frequent visits of wild animals to their fields leading to destruction of their crops and upset with the state government for not acting on the issue, Sattari farmers have now...
View ArticleExcise dept in a fix over liquor outlet distance measurement
PANAJI: The excise department has sought advice from the government on the exact method of measuring the distance of liquor outlets in Goa from the state as well as national highways passing through...
View ArticleNCSCM finalises draft CZMP
PANAJI: The National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), in its recently held two day stakeholders’ meeting, has finalised the draft coastal zone management plan (CZMP). The draft plan...
View ArticleBMM objects to MPT’s expansion plans
PANAJI: Raising strong objection to Mormugao Port Trust (MPT)’s expansion plans to augment its capacity to import coal, Bharat Mukti Morcha (BMM) president Maggie Silveira said that “it also takes...
View ArticleHSSC examination results on April 27
PANAJI: The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will announce the results of the HSSC examination, on April 27 at 10.30 a.m. The general stream HSSC examination was conducted from...
View ArticleHealth Minister to focus on preventive medicine
PANAJI: In his endeavour to overhaul the directorate of health services in particular and the health sector in general, the Minister for Health, Vishwajit Rane has resolved to focus on preventive...
View ArticleVP elections likely to be held on June 17
PANAJI: In order to avoid a ‘clash’ with San Joao festival, which will be celebrated in Goa on June 24, the state government has decided to prepone the panchayat elections, which are scheduled to be...
View ArticleAnganwadi centres merged, shifted for providing better facilities to children
PANAJI: In an attempt to provide better facilities to children enrolled with the anganwadi centres or pre-primary schools, the Women and Child Development Department has ‘merged’ as well as shifted...
View ArticleState IPB continues to be in doldrums
PANAJI: With the term of the existing state Investment Promotion Board (IPB) expiring and the government not yet reconstituting it, the IPB continues to exist in an inactive state and can only clear...
View ArticleSIT grills Digambar for over 2 hours in illegal mining case
PANAJI: Former chief minister Digambar Kamat was on Monday questioned for around two and half hours by the Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the alleged multi-crore mining scam. A senior...
View ArticleSub-registrar office to be brought under revenue dept
PANAJI: In order to complete the mutation process of property within the stipulated 90 days and provide time-bound delivery of service to people, Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte has proposed to bring...
View ArticleMonkey fever claims first victim in state this year
PANAJI/VALPOI: Goa on Monday witnessed the first death related to Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) or monkey fever this year, as the dreaded disease claimed the life of 45-year-old Gulabi Gawas, a...
View ArticleGEC’s mining students protest lack of campus placements
PONDA: Hundreds of students from mining department of Goa Engineering College at Farmagudi have launched a protest by way of boycotting classes fearing uncertain careers in view of absence of campus...
View ArticlePali-Thane villagers compelled to use muddy borewell water for drinking
By Abdulla khan | NT VALPOI: Locals of Pali area of Thane village panchayat are forced to drink piped borewell water, which is muddy and unhygienic, supplied to the locality that is just few...
View ArticleStage set for public hearing on MPT expansion projects
VASCO: The stage is set for the crucial environmental public hearing on three expansion projects of the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) to be held at Tilak Maidan in Vasco on April 26, 27 and 28. The Goa...
View ArticleMayor moots common municipal cadre
PANAJI: Maintaining that the administration at the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has collapsed, city Mayor Surendra Furtado on Tuesday mooted the idea for a common municipal cadre, just as...
View ArticleNumbers of 13 city gaddas repeated
PANAJI: Pointing out that there are at least 13 gaddas or mobile handcarts in the city with ‘repeated numbers’, a related inquiry report as prepared by the health and market committee of the...
View ArticleOnly 12-day code of conduct for panchayat election
PANAJI: The government has decided to keep model code of conduct in force for only 12 days in view of the ensuing general elections to 186 village panchayats in the state. Sources said that since the...
View ArticleSalcete bar owners give 5-day ultimatum to govt
MARGAO: Alleging that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is slow on arriving at an appropriate decision to save them from the Supreme Court order banning the sale of liquor along highways, bar owners from...
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