Railway ticket booking service at Raia post office ‘paralysed’
NT NETWORK MARGAO The railway ticket booking service at the Raia post office in South Goa is besieged with problems including staff crisis and poor internet connectivity. The railway authorities have...
View ArticleProbe into Scarlett’s murder was scuttled, claims mother
NT NETWORK PANAJI Fiona Mackeown, the British national, whose daughter, Scarlett Eden Keeling was found dead on a Goan beach, some nine years ago, on Saturday said that the investigations into the...
View ArticleUnderconstruction track along Mandovi river at Campal already a bustling spot
NT NETWORK PANAJI A 1.5 kilometre-long cycling track and footpath from Youth Hostel to Children’s Park at Campal is being constructed and so far 500-metre stretch till Kala Academy has been...
View ArticleGST may up cost of Ganesh idols by 20%
VISHANT VAZE | NT SANKHALI Traditional artisans are busy these days making idols with Ganesh Chaturthi being less than a month away. With GST coming into effect, people will have to shell out more...
View ArticleLabourers still to return even as fishing ban period nears end
NT NETWORK PANAJI Even as the 61-day fishing ban period is nearing end (August 1), the possibility of commencement of full-fledged fishing activity looks gloomy as the labourers employed for the...
View ArticleThis huge fallow land may get new lease of life
NT NETWORK MARGAO If all goes well, a huge tract of highly fertile, but uncultivated, farmland at Durga ward of Chinchinim could bloom into a cradle of floriculture and organic farming. The agriculture...
View ArticleCongress falls back on ex-CCP mayor
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Congress party is still in search of a candidate for the Panaji by-election to be on August 23. A day after Surendra Desai declined the offer for contesting the by-poll against...
View ArticleBJP names Parrikar, Vishwajit as nominees
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday officially announced the candidature of Manohar Parrikar and Vishwajit Rane as its candidates for the by-elections in the Panaji and Valpoi...
View ArticleCorroded city water pipelines worry Sudin
NT NETWORK PANAJI Holding the Corporation of the City of Panaji responsible for the bad state of underground water pipelines in the capital city, Minister for Public Works Ramakrishna ‘Sudin’...
View ArticleSmart City Mission loses sight of its mission for Panaji
NT NETWORK PANAJI It has been more than a year since the Union ministry for urban development selected Panaji city for development under its Smart City Mission. However, in a ‘smart move’, those...
View ArticleCandolim residents raise ODP issue at gram sabha
NT NETWORK CANDOLIM Issues regarding ODP and sewage discharge into nullahs were discussed at Candolim gram sabha which was held at the government school hall here, on Sunday. On the occasion, the...
View ArticleResidents of Reis Magos want church area beautified
NT NETWORK REIS MAGOS Development work to be carried out in Reis Magos was discussed at the Sunday gram sabha which was held at a government school at Verem. Advocate Mario Pacheco raised the issue...
View ArticleCurti-Khandepar gram sabha opposes sewerage treatment plant
NT NETWORK PONDA After Bandora, the villagers of Curti have opposed the sewerage treatment plant proposed at their village stating that it is coming up in a residential area. The villagers demanded...
View ArticleBastora VP to install CCTV cameras to check illegal garbage dumping
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The Bastora village panchayat will file an FIR against those who are caught on CCTV cameras while dumping garbage in the panchayat area. Sarpanch Savio Martins informed the gram...
View ArticleStray dogs, tenant verification issues figure at Moira gram sabha
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The first meeting of the Moira gram sabha formulated committees to tackle stray dog menace and registration of tenants in the village. The first gram sabha of the new term was held...
View ArticleCurious case of panel formed under human organs act
NT NETWORK PANAJI The state government has yet again reconstituted the appropriate authority set up is pursuance to Section 13(2) of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994. This is...
View ArticleWork on Macazana AYUSH hospital to begin by Sept
NT NETWORK MARGAO Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik on Sunday said that work on the proposed AYUSH hospital at Macazana in Salcete taluka will begin by September, as central funds for...
View ArticlePanaji at receiving end of blame game
NT NETWORK PANAJI City mayor Surendra Furtado has supported the statement of Minister for Public Works Ramakrihna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar that Panaji is sitting on a water bomb, with its underground water...
View ArticleCongress may go for consensus nominee in Panaji
NT NETWORK PANAJI Hinting that the Congress party may go for a consensus candidate against Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in the Panaji by-poll, Goa desk in-charge of the party Dr Chella Kumar on...
View ArticleGovt sets the ball rolling for RERA implementation
NT NETWORK PANAJI The government has invited applications from the promoters/builders of new and ongoing projects in Goa in the prescribed forms namely Form A and Form B, as per the Section 4 of the...
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