4-yr-old girl drowns in Calangute hotel pool
NT NETWORK CALANGUTE Calangute police have registered a case of drowning after a four-year-old girl, who had come with her family on a holiday to Goa from Uttar Pradesh, drowned in a hotel swimming...
View ArticleVijai should take steps to put halt to Mopa airport: Eremito
NT NETWORK MARGAO Fr Eremito Rebello on Thursday demanded that the Town and Country Planning Minister Vijai Sardesai should take decisive action to put a halt to the contentious project of Mopa...
View Article8 NH stretches notified as other district roads
PANAJI The state government has classified discarded and abandoned lengths of eight stretches of roads which were part of National Highways as other district roads. As per the notification issued by...
View ArticlePolice officer Colaco cleared on charges of dereliction of duties
NT NETWORK PANAJI Goa police department has given a clean chit to police officer Edwin Colaco in connection with the FIR registered against him way back in 2012. According to sources, senior police...
View ArticleEDC to help speed up urban infrastructure development projects
NT NETWORK PANAJI The state government has designated Economic Development Corporation Ltd as State-Level Financial Intermediary (SLFI) for funding urban infrastructure projects in the state. A...
View ArticleCongress roping in Babush to fight Parrikar
NT NETWORK PANAJI A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vacated the Panaji assembly seat, Congress party on Thursday initiated a discussion with its former leader Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate...
View ArticleParrikar confident of winning Panaji with 30% vote margin
NT NETWORK PANAJI Expressing confidence about getting back 30 per cent winning margin for BJP in the ensuing by-election for the Panaji constituency from the 8 per cent the party had got in the...
View ArticleSoon, Goans to get quality medicines at affordable prices
NT NETWORK PANAJI In its effort to make costly high-quality medicines reach the doors of the needy at reasonable prices, the Goa government will soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the...
View ArticleHelper drowns after falling off jet ski at Varca
NT NETWORK VARCA/COLVA A 20-year-old native of Bijapur in Karnataka drowned after accidentally falling off a jet ski at Varca on Friday afternoon. The deceased, identified as Anil Lamani by police,...
View ArticleCoalition partners rule out joining hands with Congress
NT NETWORK PANAJI Even though Congress leaders have claimed that the party is in touch with Independent and some non-BJP MLAs, who are currently in the Parrikar-led coalition government, to get the...
View ArticleCong files petition in HC seeking Vishwajit’s disqualification
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Congress party on Friday filed a petition before the High Court of Bombay at Goa seeking disqualification of Health Minister and former Congress MLA Vishwajit Rane for having...
View ArticleGSPCB finds many pollution norms violated in Sonshi
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has found many pollution norms violated by the mining leaseholders in Sonshi village in Sattari taluka, thus causing air and water...
View ArticleDigambar was aware about mining illegalities: SIT
NT NETWORK PANAJI Former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who was holding the mines portfolio, was aware about non-compliance of conditions and other illegalities/irregularities happening in the mining...
View ArticleGovernor for making pre-marital counselling prerequisite for marriage
NT NETWORK PANAJI Recommending that the governments in the state and at the Centre should take steps to make pre-marital counselling a prerequisite for marriages/ marriage registration in all the...
View ArticleCyberage scheme making survival difficult: state computer dealers write to CM
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that the Cyberage Students Scheme over the years is responsible for shrinking the already small computer market in Goa, thus making survival extremely difficult for...
View ArticleGovt nursing institute to now be nodal body to recruit nurses
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that the examination conducted for recruitment of nurses in Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), Bambolim by a private institution would be scrapped, Health Minister...
View ArticleGUJ writes to CM over journalist movement curbs in Secretariat
NT NETWORK PANAJI Taking serious objection to the proposal of the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to restrict the movement of the media persons in the secretariat/ ministerial block, the Goa Union of...
View ArticleSiolim murder case: Cops clueless on autopsy report
NT NETWORK MAPUSA Anjuna police is clueless with regard to the charred body of a woman which was found on Friday morning. Even the autopsy report could not ascertain the cause of death due to...
View ArticleDrowsy drivers behind 30% of road accidents
NT NETWORK PANAJI Maintaining that the pulmonary health camps recently conducted for more than 300 Goa police personnel have revealed that 90 per cent of them are in fine shape as far as their...
View ArticleMGP reaffirms support to Parrikar-led government
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) has reaffirmed its support to the Manohar Parrikar-led coalition government in the state, maintaining that the MGP would support the present...
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