Highway liquor ban: govt to measure distance by approachable road
PANAJI: Liquor retailers, bars and restaurants afflicted by the Supreme Court’s highway liquor ban are due for relief with the government set to measure the 500-metre distance from national and state...
View ArticleGMC to get cancer centre
PANAJI: Goa will have its own Regional Cancer Centre at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), Bambolim for treatment of cancer patients in the state, as the proposal for setting up the centre in...
View ArticleCong wants FIR against Sadhvi for utterances against beef eaters
NT NETWORK PANAJI Condemning the statement made by Sadhvi Saraswati against beef eaters, Congress party on Friday staged a protest outside the Congress House, burned her picture and urged the Chief...
View ArticleCCP-PAWS tiff results in crisis at animal shelter
NT NETWORK PANAJI Sharp differences cropping up between the city Mayor Surendra Furtado, and Angela Qazi, who manages and runs the PAWS (Panjim Animal Welfare Society) animal shelter located at St...
View ArticleVendors not enthusiastic about farmers’ markets
NT NETWORK NAVELIM While several vegetable and fruit vendors have been displaced due to the government banning sale along the highways, the displaced vendors are not enthusiastic about the...
View ArticleGovt’s failure to devolve powers: SGZP chief hints at en masse resignation
NT NETWORK MARGAO Aggrieved over government’s failure to devolve powers to the zilla panchayats in state, chairperson of South Goa Zilla Panchayat (SGZP) Navnath Naik, on Friday, hinted that all the...
View ArticleProvedoria underutilising funds for old-age homes
Roque Dias | NT MARGAO Crores of rupees generated through the sale of lotteries are not being utilised fully by the Provedoria department of the state government to maintain the old-age homes run by...
View ArticleGPCC chief Luizinho urges Sonia to relieve him
NT NETWORK PANAJI Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Luizinho Faleiro Friday urged All India Congress Committee, (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi to relieve him from the post. In his letter...
View ArticleITI instructors demand nationally recognised certificates for students
NT NETWORK PANAJI Instructors of the state-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) have said that the certificates awarded to the ITI students do not hold value even for ITI jobs in Goa and demanded...
View ArticleMigration of traders to GST nearly complete
NT NETWORK PANAJI Commissioner of Commercial Taxes Deepak Bandekar Friday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) coverage in Goa is nearly complete. Bandekar said that 70 per cent of the dealers...
View ArticleIIT-Goa project likely to move from Canacona to Sanguem
NT NETWORK PANAJI Loliem village in Canacona taluka is on the verge of losing the proposed Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Goa, as the state government has decided to drop the site due to...
View ArticleFIRs against BJP, Cong on foreign funding: cops file closure report
NT NETWORK PANAJI Panaji police have filed a closure report before the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Panaji, in connection with two separate First Information Reports (FIRs), which were...
View ArticleValpoi raises alarm over stray dog menace
NT NETWORK VALPOI The Valpoi Municipal Council came under fire after hiring an agency and initiating dog sterilisation programme for the last two years. As many as 200 stray dogs in 10 wards of the...
View ArticleTraditional farmers welcome govt move to set up markets off highways
SUDESH BHOSLE |NT VASCO Farmers from Verna, Majorda, Pirni, Morod, Senaulim and its surrounding areas who vend their produce along the NH17 Verna- Pirni have welcomed the decision of the state...
View ArticleReal estate cases top list of complaints at consumer forums
NT NETWORK PANAJI Two in almost every four cases in consumer forums are related to housing, followed by complaints related to the insurance and banking sectors, according to an analysis done by the...
View ArticleGTDC to lose out on funds
NT NETWORK PANAJI With the state cabinet deciding to revert back the tourism promotion and marketing activities to the department of tourism, the government has now decided to adjust the current...
View ArticleOld Goa sarpanch voted out
NT NETWORK PANAJI The recently elected sarpanch of Old Goa village panchayat, Nilkanth Bhomkar, was voted out 5-4 on Saturday, thus becoming the first sarpanch to lose the chair after panchayat...
View ArticleNH 17 widening: no major structure will be harmed, says Dhavalikar
NT NETWORK PANAJI Coming out with the information that the recently started exercise of acquisition of 4.01 lakh sq mts of land from Patradevi to Bambolim by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and...
View ArticleQazi says CCP Mayor, Commissioner targeting dog care services
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that the CCP Mayor and Commissioner are unnecessarily targeting dog care services of Panjim Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) by taking away vehicles and trained staff provided...
View ArticleChaos reigns supreme at Curchorem market
SAMEER BHAT | NT CURCHOREM Chaos reigns supreme at the Curchorem GSUDA market in the absence of a proper management there with many vendors occupying whatever spaces available. There are several...
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