HC directs state govt to supply potable water to Sonshi villagers
PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has directed the state government to supply potable drinking water to Sonshi villagers, till the affected families get water connection. The Sonshi villagers had...
View ArticleDay-long assembly session on May 9 to adopt GST Bill
PANAJI: Governor Mridula Sinha has summoned a day-long special session of the state legislative assembly on May 9, next month, for the state government to adopt the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill,...
View ArticleVishwajit pays surprise visit, finds GMC in an awful state
PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the Goa Medical College and Hospital at Bambolim where he found a totally deteriorating scene of the functioning of the...
View ArticleTeenager held for attempting to break open Porvorim ATM
PANAJI: A teenager, who tried to make quick money illegally by attempting to steal currency notes from an automated teller machine (ATM) has been arrested by Porvorim police on Friday. The accused is a...
View ArticleGoa will continue to exercise control over its rivers: CM
PANAJI: Maintaining that the nationalisation of Goan rivers would not result in the transfer of state rivers into the domain of the central government, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday said...
View Article6 Goa rivers to be developed as national waterways
PANAJI: Six rivers of Goa which include Mandovi, Zuari, Chapora, Sal, Mapusa and Cumbharjua are among the 111 rivers across the country being notified by the Union government as national waterways....
View ArticleDenial of fresh water to Sonshi residents: GHRC seeks report
PANAJI: The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has served a notice on the chief secretary, director of mines and the member secretary of Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) seeking a detailed...
View ArticleNot a drop to drink:
Muddy water is drawn by a resident from a well in Sonshi village in Sattari taluka on Friday. Mining and ore transportation through Sonshi has resulted in the air, water bodies and wells in the village...
View ArticleParrikar urges parents not to give power bikes to children
PANAJI: Stating that the conscientious parents should not provide high CC bikes, preferably those with engine power over 250cc, to their children unless these members of the younger generation have a...
View ArticleIllegal sand extraction: 7 canoes seized, 17 labourers arrested
MAPUSA: In a joint raid conducted early Friday morning by the officials of mines department and other officials in River Chapora at Naibag, Pernem, seven canoes involved in illegal sand extraction...
View ArticleSpace constraint forces Aquem office of power department to occupy incomplete...
By ROQUE DIAS | NT MARGAO: Space constraint has forced the office of the electricity department at Aquem, Margao to occupy incomplete building. An executive engineer of the power department has...
View Article‘One should be prudent enough to weigh options fairly’
VASCO: Vasco would reap tremendous economic benefits with the development of the port, claimed sources at the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT). The Mormugao port is the economic edifice of the entire state of...
View ArticleMPT expansion hearing: protestors cry foul over misleading info in EIA reports
VASCO: Speaker after speaker at the environmental public hearing, which was conducted on Friday, at Tilak Maidan, Vasco, alleged that the project proponents and Mormugao Port Trust have provided false,...
View ArticleHearing on MPT projects: protestors take umbrage at outsider remark
NT NETWORK VASCO The speakers at the environmental public hearing on Saturday condemned the South District Collector Swapnil Naik, the moderator of the hearing, over time ‘restrictions’ for...
View ArticleComplaint against MPT chairman
NT NETWORK VASCO The Old Cross Fishing Canoe Owners Association president Custodio D’Souza has filed a police complaint against Mormugao Port Trust chairman I Jeyakumar for his alleged statement...
View ArticleGoa all set for GST implementation
NT NETWORK PANAJI The government is confident of implementing Goods and Services Tax (GST) on time, said Deepak Bandekar, Commissioner of commercial taxes on Saturday. Bandekar said that the new tax...
View ArticleGSPCB finds only one parameter violated in Sonshi
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that, as of now, the mining operations in Sonshi village have not been stopped, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) said that it has issued show-cause notices to...
View ArticleDigital meter to soon be mandatory for Goa taxis
NT NETWORK PANAJI The local public as well as the visiting tourists would soon get respite from the high rates charged by drivers of the commercial cabs in Goa – both tourist as well as passenger...
View ArticleTaxi owners threaten to hold strike
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that the local taxi operators have the capability to operate their own taxis digitally, the North Goa Tourist Taxi Owners’ Association (NGTTOA) has threatened to hold a...
View ArticleAzgaonkar wants local taxi owners’ interests protected
NT NETWORK PANAJI Commenting on the ongoing online petition to support Ola and Uber taxi services in Goa, Tourism Minister Manohar ‘Babu’ Azgaonkar on Saturday said that the local taxi owners and...
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