Local produce will face brunt of fruits, veggies from other states
Joseph Pinto | NT SALIGAO: With the government mulling setting up farmers’ markets, farmers from Saligao, Parra, Sangolda and Guirim fear that customers, who are health conscious, will not get proper...
View ArticleUpgraded Margao railway station platform thrown open
MARGAO: Claiming that many of his projects were delayed either due to delay in getting finance or due to procedural delays, Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik on Tuesday observed that if the bullet trains...
View ArticleStray dog menace haunts tourists
DONA PAULA: Even as the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) and Panjim Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) are involved in blame game over taking care of canines with CCP withdrawing six trained staff...
View ArticleCong MLAs to pledge support to UPA presidential candidate Meira
PANAJI: Congress MLAs will fly to Mumbai on June 30 to meet United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Presidential candidate Meira Kumar where she will seek their support for the Presidential election against...
View ArticleCalangute murder: 3 arrested on entering state at Mollem
CALANGUTE: The three persons allegedly involved in the murder of Tyron Nazareth, a 52-year-old history-sheeter in Calangute late Saturday night were arrested at the check-post at Mollem along the Goa...
View ArticlePolice vow to pin down hooligans
North Goa SP Karthik Kashyap in an interview with Amresh Parab says that the police will take strongest action against hooligans even in a minor incident Q: Lawrence Dias has been a known troublemaker...
View ArticleRules to be framed under land acquisition act
PANAJI: A year after notifying new land acquisition policy to acquire land for public projects under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement...
View ArticleGMC dean to have only academic duties
PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Tuesday said that powers of dean of the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim, and its medical superintendent will soon be bifurcated. Henceforth dean’s...
View ArticleBanks, farmers don’t think much of interest waiver on farm loans
PANAJI : Although the government has announced interest waiver on agriculture loans in its common minimum programme, it appears that banks as well as farmers are not in favour of it. Several banks said...
View ArticlePupils’ mothers to be mid-day meal tasters
PANAJI: Maintaining that instructions have been issued to all the heads of the schools to involve mothers of the students for tasting the mid-day meals provided under the mid-day meal scheme before...
View ArticleCCP starts process to replace PAWS with another animal welfare group
NT NETWORK PANAJI Just as the Panjim Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) has lodged a complaint with the Collector, North Goa, Nila Mohanan, who is also the chairperson of the Society Prevention of Cruelty...
View ArticleCong: govt blocking works in Oppn-ruled constituencies
NT NETWORK PANAJI Congress Legislature Party (CLP) on Wednesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has been creating hurdles in the developmental works in constituencies ruled by...
View ArticleBJP chief Shah to visit Goa to strategise for 2019 polls
NT NETWORK PANAJI Expressing confidence that the Manohar Parrikar government will complete its tenure regardless of the prediction made by the Congress party about collapse of the government, state...
View ArticleProposed Bainguinim plant to treat garbage of entire Tiswadi taluka
NT NETWORK PANAJI Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday announced that the state government will set up garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim in Old Goa with a 250 tonne capacity where garbage...
View ArticleFate of draft agriculture policy in limbo
NT NETWORK PANAJI The fate of the draft comprehensive agriculture policy or agriculture vision document for the state, which has been prepared by the directorate of agriculture, has been in limbo as...
View ArticleBondla zoo’s cynosure tigress Sandya dies
NT NETWORK PONDA The Bondla zoo has lost yet another prized possession. Six months after the death of Rana, a royal Bengal tiger, tigress Sandya died of serious health conditions on Tuesday...
View ArticleSolution to air pollution in mining areas in sight
NT NETWORK PANAJI A solution to air pollution in mining areas could come up soon if the Goa State Pollution Control Board gives its approval to a roadmap submitted by the Indian School of Mines,...
View ArticleCM launches GST website
NT NETWORK PANAJI Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday launched new website of the department of commercial tax for goods and service tax stakeholders with the domain name www.goagst.gov.in....
View ArticleBuses will run on fuel generated by garbage plant: CM
NT NETWORK MARGAO Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said that he wants to operate buses which will run on the fuel generated by the Saligao garbage treatment plant. Speaking as a chief...
View ArticleIPB begins reviewing projects approved by Parsekar govt
NT NETWORK PANAJI The second meeting of newly-constituted Goa Investment Promotion Board chaired by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday has reviewed the projects, which had been approval by...
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