Ruling MLAs hold sway over village panchayats
NT NETWORK PANAJI/MARGAO The results of the panchayat elections announced on Tuesday underlined the fact that the ruling MLAs have comfortably managed to retain their hold on local...
View ArticleVP election throws up new faces in St Estevem, Divar
NT NETWORK PANAJI The results of the village panchayat election saw many new faces emerging in various talukas of the state. Most of the winning candidates were backed by the ruling MLAs, who had...
View ArticleMauvin retains hold over Chicalim, Chicolna-Bogmalo panchayats
NT NETWORK VASCO The Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho retained hold over the two panchayats of Chicalim and Chicolna-Bogmalo in his Dabolim constituency. While the four panchayats coming under the...
View ArticleGoa Forward makes clean sweep in five Siolim VPs
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The Siolim constituency has a witnessed a clean sweep by the Goa Forward as the candidates backed by it have won in the election in five village panchayats – Siolim Marna, Siolim...
View ArticleMormugao council to bear additional burden of ` 30-40 lakh per month
NT NETWORK VASCO In two major decisions, the Mormugao Municipal Council on Wednesday resolved to implement 7th Pay Commission to its employees and regularise daily-wage workers who have worked for five...
View ArticleElection code of conduct ends for 175 panchayats
NT NETWORK PANAJI The state Election Commission has issued a notification lifting code of conduct in 175 panchayats with immediate effect; however, the model code of conduct continues to be in force in...
View ArticleArjun Salgaoncar complains of uneasiness during questioning by SIT
NT NETWORK PANAJI Director of a mining firm Arjun Salgaoncar was taken to the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), Bambolim, on Wednesday, after he complained of feeling uneasy during questioning...
View ArticleMauvin prioritises garbage tackling task for new sarpanchas
NT NETWORK VASCO Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho on Wednesday said sarpanchas will be given full autonomy and that there will be no interference by the government as regards functioning of the...
View ArticleSmriti Irani heaps praises on Modi govt for achievements
NT NETWORK BICHOLIM Union Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani stated that the country has achieved a lot of development in the last three years of the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre. She was...
View ArticleNow, a push for real-time info on air quality in mining hubs
ABDUL WAHAB KHAN | NT PANAJI The Goa State Pollution Control Board has directed its scientific wing and mining firms to automatically release readings of air quality monitoring stations on e-platform...
View ArticleCattle trade ban: HC issues notices to state, Centre
NT NETWORK PANAJI The High Court of Bombay at Goa has issued notices to the central and state governments on a petition challenging the Centre’s new rules that have banned the trade in cattle for...
View ArticleBan fails to take fizz out of liquor revenue
SHOMA PATNAIK | NT PANAJI Roughly three months after the Supreme Court ban on highway liquor came into force, Goa’s revenue from liquor remains intact. In fact, it increased 10 per cent in the first...
View ArticleCongress debunks BJP’s tall claim on VP victory
NT NETWORK PANAJI Dismissing the claim of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar that 90-95 per cent of BJP workers have got elected in the just-held elections to village panchayats, the Congress on...
View Article4 Merces hoodlums run riot, attack Maharashtra tourists
NT NETWORK PANAJI A spat in a hotel at Merces took an ugly turn on Wednesday after four persons from the village attacked with sharp weapons a group of 47 tourists – men, women and children from...
View ArticleSchoolgirl killed in Ponda road accident
PONDA: A 14-year-old girl student of Almeida High School, who was riding pillion on a scooter ridden by her aunt, was killed on Thursday when their scooter was hit by a truck near Safa Masjid at Ponda....
View ArticleHC reserves order on Cong petition against Vishwajit
PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has reserved order in a disqualification petition filed against Health Minister and former Congress MLA Vishwajit Rane. The Congress has filed the petition...
View ArticleGovt winds up Mahiti Ghars
PANAJI: The government has disbanded Mahiti Ghars, citizen service centres, as legal agreements under which these centres had been established have expired. A government communiqué has said that...
View ArticleCM asks police to crack down on history-sheeters
PANAJI: Rattled by the Wednesday attack on Maharashtra tourists at Merces, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday sought a report from the Goa police giving detailed information and statistics on...
View ArticlePolice zero in on history-sheeters
PANAJI: Around 161 history-sheeters and 2091 persons with bad character have been identified by the Goa police whose movements are likely to be monitored closely by the police in view of the Merces...
View Article3 held for attacking car in Vasco
VASCO: The Vasco Police on Friday arrested three persons including a minor boy for their alleged involvement in attacking a car which was reported at Vaddem slope on Wednesday late evening. The accused...
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