Don’t hike fees arbitrarily: govt warns aided schools
NT NETWORK PANAJI The department of education, in an attempt to regulate the fees charged by the schools around the state, on Friday issued circulars to all aided and unaided schools recognised by it...
View ArticleConsumers worried as FDA silent on potassium bromate in bread
NT NETWORK PANAJI With Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) not coming out with the four bread samples that tested positive for cancer-causing potassium bromate, consumers in Goa are a worried lot as...
View ArticleBenefits as Portuguese national only after getting citizen card, passport:...
NT NETWORK PANAJI Consul General of Portugal in Goa Dr Rui Carvalho Baceira has stated that anyone whose name is registered in the Central Registry of Lisbon is a Portuguese according to the country’s...
View ArticleGCA funds misappropriation: EOC to obtain signature, handwriting samples
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Economic Offences Cell (EOC) of the Goa police, probing alleged misappropriation of Rs 3.13 crore of the Goa Cricket Association (GCA), will obtain signature as well as...
View ArticleWoman booked for allegedly kidnapping minor son
NT NETWORK MAPUSA Mapusa police booked a woman and four others for allegedly hatching a criminal conspiracy and kidnapping her six-year-old son from the guardianship of his father. According to Mapusa...
View ArticleRoad ‘patches’ wash away in first showers at Calangute
NT NETWORK CALANGUTE The residents of Naikawaddo-Calangute are irked over the fact that the ‘patch work’ of the pothole-ridden road in the locality, carried out by JICA, has washed away following...
View ArticleTension at Dabolim airport after parking restrictions on taxi operators
NT NETWORK VASCO Tension prevailed at the old terminal building of the Dabolim airport on Saturday afternoon after the yellow black taxi operators staged demonstration at the airport police station for...
View Article2 bulls electrocuted at Baina garden
NT NETWORK VASCO Two bulls were electrocuted during the wee hours of Saturday when they came in contact with live wires at the Mormugao municipal garden at Patrong Baina. Sources said the electricity...
View ArticleGovt ready to review health insurance scheme if private hospitals perform
NT NETWORK PANAJI Deputy Chief Minister and Health Minister Francis D’Souza on Saturday said that if the private hospitals to be empanelled by the United India Insurance Company for treating the...
View ArticleCentre plans MPT’s satellite port at Betul
NT NETWORK PANAJI Union Ministry of Shipping has proposed to set up a satellite port of the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) at Betul to handle the transportation of bauxite, iron ore and other commodities...
View ArticleFlat owners lock horns over ‘noisy’ prayer sessions in their building at Mapusa
NT NETWORK MAPUSA Tense moments were witnessed at a residential building premises at Altinho-Mapusa after a builder, who owns a flat in it, and his guests were restrained from entering the premises on...
View ArticleNon-performance has resulted in infighting in state BJP: AAP
NT NETWORK CANACONA AAP’s national general secretary Ashutosh Gupta said that the state BJP appears to be in a state of panic following Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s recent mammoth public...
View ArticleSarzora locals form committee to look into ‘illegal’ mudfilling activity
NT NETWORK SARZORA Amidst high drama, a 15-member committee was formed to inquire into illegal filling of low-lying fields with mud at C-Bandh in Sarzora during the gram sabha held on Sunday. The...
View ArticleCash, mobile phone stolen at Colva beach
NT NETWORK MARGAO Some unknown persons committed theft of cash and mobile that were kept in the dickey of a scooter at the Colva beach. According to Colva police an offence following a complaint filed...
View ArticleDecomposed body found in Mapusa nullah
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The Mapusa police on Sunday found a decomposed body of a woman in a nullah near Bodgeshwar temple on Sunday morning. As per the information provided by the police the body is of a...
View ArticleWill write to Centre over K’taka threatening calls on Mhadei: CM
NT NETWORK SAKHALI Taking serious note of the threatening calls received from Karnataka by Goa’s water resource department officials and legal officers’ team associated with the Mhadei river water...
View ArticleAmbassadors express desire of promoting Goa tourism in Croatia, Iceland and...
NT NETWORK PANAJI While interacting with MLA and chairman of Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) Nilesh Cabral, on Wednesday, Indian Ambassadors to Croatia, Iceland and Israel have expressed...
View ArticleCM partakes in Environment Day celebrations at Sanquelim
NT NETWORK SANKHALI Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Sunday visited Vedanta’s Sanquelim reclamation mine and partook in World Environment Day celebrations. He was given an insight into the entire...
View ArticlePratishta day celebrations at Ayyappa temple
NT NETWORK PANAJI Ayyappa temple, Margao is celebrating sixth annual Prathishta Vaarshika Mahotsavam on June 7 and 8 with special poojas, cultural activities and religious festivities. Ayyappa temple,...
View ArticleBiometric machines to be installed at five fair price shops in Bardez on...
NT NETWORK MAPUSA Out of 83 fair price shops in Bardez taluka, five shops have been identified by the Civil Supplies Department for installation of biometric system-based point of sales (POS) machines,...
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