CM to lead yoga camp at Bambolim today
PANAJI: Goa, along with rest of the country and the world will be celebrating the 3rd International Yoga Day on June 21, with the main state-level function to be led by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar,...
View ArticleMore and more countries are drawing towards yoga: Shripad
PANAJI: Union Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) Shripad Naik on Tuesday said that more and more countries are attracted to yoga, and as compared to last year’s International Yoga Day...
View ArticleCoP survey on sixth offshore casino complete
PANAJI: The sixth offshore casino vessel M V Lucky Seven, promoted by Golden Globe Hotel Private Limited (GGHPL), owned by former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, is likely to enter the River Mandovi...
View ArticleSpecial music zones in Goa soon
PANAJI: Tourism Minister Manohar ‘Babu’ Azgaonkar Tuesday announced that Goa will soon be developed as a music festival destination. “Another reason that draws tourists to Goa is music and I will...
View ArticleNigerian held for fraudulently obtaining SIM card
NT NETWORK PANAJI Panaji police have arrested a 36-year-old Nigerian in connection with a case pertaining to obtaining a mobile SIM card allegedly in a fraudulent manner. The Nigerian, identified as...
View ArticleShop gutted in blaze at Curchorem
NT NETWORK CURCHOREM A shop, at Curchorem, selling raincoats, school bags, umbrellas and other items, caught fire on Tuesday night allegedly due to a short circuit. The shop is located along the main...
View ArticleProcess started for full-time presidents in consumer courts
NT NETWORK PANAJI There are 430 cases pending before the consumer courts for over six years for want of full-time presidents and members, with the state government now waking up to this crisis in...
View ArticleKhalap predicts bleak future for urban co-operative banks
NT NETWORK PANAJI After being weighed down by high levels of non-performing assets (NPAs) and losses, the scenario is likely to get tougher for urban co-operative banks, said Ramakant Khalap, veteran...
View ArticleSelling wax idols, newspapers at Varca despite all odds
NT NETWORK VARCA Overcoming all odds, 49-year-old Glorio Rodrigues is eking out a living for himself, his wife and son. Rodrigues, who was affected with cerebral palsy as a child, grew up with...
View ArticlePersons holding certain offices of profit will now be able to fight assembly...
NT NETWORK PANAJI Goa cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval to promulgate an ordinance to amend the Goa Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualification) Act 2005. The government has...
View ArticleCops’ plea to pillion riders: wear helmet
NT NETWORK PANAJI In the last 17 months in Goa, a total of 480 persons died in road accidents of which 69 per cent were two-wheelers riders and pillion riders, who died mainly due to head injuries....
View ArticleSolid waste treatment plant: CCP told to hand over Bainguinim land
NT NETWORK PANAJI The government has asked the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to hand over the Bainguinim land, presently in its possession, to the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC)...
View ArticleTraffic police warned not to needlessly harass tourists
NT NETWORK PANAJI With incidents of motorists, especially tourists being allegedly harassed by traffic police on the pretext of motor vehicle checking rising in the state, the concerned traffic...
View ArticleCM urges Goans to make yoga part of routine culture
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that yoga helps in the psychological wellbeing of an individual apart from keeping people physically fit, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday urged Goans to make...
View ArticleVishwajit-backed Sattari panchas call on CM
PANAJI: Newly-elected members and sarpanchas of various village panchayats from Sattari taluka, accompanied by the Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Thursday called on the Chief Minister Manohar...
View ArticleCSIR-NIO, ASCI ink MoU for training in aquaculture, fishery sciences
PANAJI: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO), Goa have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Agricultural Skill Council of...
View ArticleIf we are pushed somewhere in a corner, who will buy our produce: Taleigao...
TALEIGAO: The government’s decision to create farmers’ markets under its common minimum programme has been welcomed by farmers from Taleigao with a rider that the site is easily accessible and faces a...
View ArticleNo seconder for woman sarpanch in reserved Volvoi panchayat
PONDA: With the sarpanch’s post in the five-member Volvoi panchayat in Priol constituency reserved from a woman and all three male panch members refusing to second the name of one of the two female...
View ArticlePoor infra, staff crunch ail state’s top consumer court
PANAJI: The Goa State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (GSCDRC) – the highest consumer court in the state – operates from an office which is situated in an unsafe Junta House building in city....
View ArticleLaw dept vets proposal to transfer tenancy cases to mamlatdar’s office
pANAJI: The law department has vetted the proposal for transferring tenancy cases back to the office of mamlatdar from the court of civil judge senior division thus clearing the way for the state...
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