Pharmaceutical firms want night shifts for female staff
SHOMA PATNAIK | NT PANAJI The inspectorate of factories and boilers is likely to consider afresh industry’s demand for allowing women to work beyond 7 pm in factories and manufacturing processes. The...
View ArticleMonsoon to hit Goa by June 10
NT NETWORK PANAJI The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive in the state between June 8 and June 10, according to the meteorological department. According to the Met department, favourable conditions...
View ArticleGoan youth stranded on merchant ship in Djibouti
NIRGOSH GAUDE | NT PONDA A 22-year-old Goan youth and 13 other Indians are crying for immediate help, as the ship they have been working on has been detained by naval officials in Djibouti port after...
View ArticleGovt working on special audit system for co-op banks
NT NETWORK PANAJI The state government is working on a mechanism for carrying out special auditing of the local financial institutions in the co-operative sector. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar,...
View ArticleNIT Goa construction work to commence after monsoon
NT NETWORK PANAJI The government will soon transfer Rs 37.1 crore worth 4,56,767 sq mt of land at Cuncolim, identified to set up the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Goa, to the Union Ministry...
View ArticleBhatikar charges GSM of shifting from language agenda
PANAJI: In an interesting turn of events, the Panaji constituency candidate of the Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) for the recently held state assembly polls Ketan Bhatikar, on Thursday, charged the GSM of...
View ArticleCujira chaos: schools to stagger timings
BAMBOLIM-CURCA: A meeting of heads of institutions at Cujira Integrated Education Complex, education director, Deputy Superintendent of Police (traffic) and others was held to find a solution to the...
View ArticleHigh tide poses threat to city during heavy rains
PANAJI: The noon of May 31, 2017 witnessed intense pre-monsoon rain accompanied by gusty winds lashing Panaji, followed by heavy waterlogging in many parts of the capital city, forcing the people to...
View ArticlePower dept’s asst engineer booked for accepting bribe
PANAJI: The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Directorate of Vigilance has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against an officer of the electricity department for allegedly taking bribe...
View ArticleMonsoon hits Goa
PANAJI: The southwest monsoon finally hit the state on Thursday, two days after its scheduled time. The state has been witnessing heavy showers in the last few days but the official arrival of the...
View ArticlePanchayat polls: over 70 booths sensitive
PANAJI: As per data provided by north and south Goa Collector’s offices, over 70 polling booths have been identified as sensitive, hypersensitive and critical areas across the state’s 186 panchayats to...
View ArticleMany state co-op banks in the red
SHOMA PATNAIK | NT PANAJI: Even as plans are on to subject co-operative banks and credit societies to special audit, a senior source in the state government Thursday said that several of the local...
View ArticleRescue Indian crew in Djibouti: Sawaikar writes to Sushma
PONDA: Taking note of a report published in The Navhind Times about Indian crew members including a Goan youth stranded on a merchant Ship at Djibouti port, government authorities have started making...
View ArticlePolluted lakes affecting aquatic life
PANAJI: Saipem lake in Navelim, identified as the most polluted lake in the state with low levels of dissolved oxygen, is severely affecting aquatic life, says a water quality study carried out by the...
View ArticlePollution ‘killing’ major Goa rivers
ABDUL WAHAB KHAN | NT PANAJI: Almost all the rivers in the state are polluted and water availability is increasingly being threatened due to rampant pollution from untreated domestic sewage and...
View ArticlePart of Vasco building balcony collapses
NT NETWORK VASCO A part of balcony of a flat located at the third floor of Pushpanjali Cooperative Housing Society Ltd in the heart of the town came down crashing during the wee hours of Friday....
View ArticlePower dept JE suspended pending inquiry over bribe
NT NETWORK VASCO Junior engineer of Div-XI, Vasco of electricity department Vishwanath Bhat, who was deployed at section station office Cortalim-II, has been placed under suspension for allegedly...
View ArticleAbsence of full-time secretary affecting VP functioning
NT NETWORK MARGAO The stage is set for polls to village panchayats in Goa except in 15 wards of ten village panchayats but panchayats continue to suffer in absence of fulltime secretaries. Successive...
View ArticleSeparate dept at GMC on cards to streamline blood bank functioning
NT NETWORK PANAJI In order to streamline the functioning of blood bank and blood testing at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim, the state government, on Friday, decided to create separate...
View ArticleEducation dept asked to expedite process for setting up Davorlim education hub
ROQUE DIAS | NT MARGAO With the schools reopening after the summer break for another academic year, traffic jams are being witnessed in Margao and its peripheries. The situation prevailing in the...
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