Parents to withdraw wards from Usgao school
NT NETWORK PONDA Anticipating injury to their wards due to work of renovation of the school building, parents of children studying in Government Primary School, Dhaushire-Usgao have decided not to send...
View ArticleOutsourcing of govt contracts has dented job prospects of locals: Lobo
NT NETWORK CANDOLIM Outsourcing of work contracts by the government to outsiders has affected the employment prospects of locals, said Calangute MLA Michael Lobo. Speaking to the media, Lobo said that...
View ArticleNot getting many applications to avail Provedoria funds: CM
NT NETWORK PANAJI Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Wednesday said the limited number of applications received by the government for financial assistance under the Provedoria da Assistencia Publica...
View ArticleElectronic city may get Rs 50 cr from Centre
NT NETWORK PANAJI Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured full-fledged clearance as well as Rs 50-crore financial assistance for the electronic city coming up at Tuem in Pernem taluka. He gave this...
View ArticleHIV cases declining in Goa
SHOAIB SHAIKH | NT Staff Reporter PANAJI Goans have a reason to cheer: the number of HIV cases in the state has been declining sharply from 901 HIV positive cases in 2009 to 329 in 2015 and full-blown...
View ArticleChetan, Phadke, Mulla held for embezzlement
NT NETWORK PANAJI The economic offences cell of the Goa police probing the alleged misappropriation of Rs 3.13 crore of the Goa Cricket Association arrested its president Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod...
View ArticleChapora eco-tourism project: prawn farmers keeping fingers crossed
PANAJI: While fishermen community has expressed concern over the Rs 100 crore eco-tourism project at Chapora, two prawn farmers, dependent on the Chapora river said that they are keeping their finger...
View ArticleHJS, other organisations will continue efforts to get demands fulfilled: Pingale
PANAJI: Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), on Thursday, stated that the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre is yet to make its stand clear on issues like construction of Ram...
View ArticleMost drains in Mapusa desilted: MMC CO
MAPUSA: Claiming that most drains and cross drains in the town have been de-silted, Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) chief officer (CO) Clen Madeira said that the work of cleaning drains near Aldona taxi...
View ArticleAll power meters in state to be replaced with smart ones
CANSAULIM: Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, on Thursday, said that the government has decided to replace the existing power meters in the state with smart meters at the earliest. The decision was...
View ArticleNow, farmers to get soil test report on app
PANAJI: The department of agriculture has completed soil testing of 3,000 samples, out of the targeted 20,000 such samples, taken from the fields around the state, and would soon provide related...
View ArticleParrikar unlikely to return to Goan politics
PANAJI: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar is unlikely to return to the Goan politics by contesting from his favourite constituency – Panaji – the forthcoming state assembly polls scheduled in 2017. As...
View ArticleSignatures, ID proofs corner GCA bosses
PANAJI: Goa Cricket Association president Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod Phadke and treasurer Akbar Mulla had their signatures on the form to open the illegal bank account in the name of GCA, police...
View ArticleNo preservatives found in dry fish: FDA
PANAJI: Contrary to concern in certain quarters that dry fish contains harmful preservatives, Food and Drug Administration director Salim Veljee has said the dry fish relished by Goans is free from...
View ArticleSPV formed to implement smart city project
PANAJI: A special purpose vehicle for the smart city initiative of the Corporation of the City of Panaji, called Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Ltd, has been constituted. A government...
View ArticleGoa should bid for coal block: Goyal
CANSAULIM: Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said the state government, which lost its coal block after the Supreme Court cancelled the coal block allocation, could bid for a coal block at...
View ArticleKhaunte gives 7 days to govt to shift new entrant from Mandovi
NT NETWORK PANAJI Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the government to remove the newly-sprung vessel ‘Deltin Caravela’ in river Mandovi or else the government would be...
View ArticleHazardous dissection at Hodar on new Curchorem-Margao road
NT NETWORK CURCHOREM The newly-constructed road that passes through Curchorem-Margao via Chandor is in condition that is not safe for motorists at Hodar and is become a danger zone. The road has been...
View ArticleGoyal: states have agreed to meet village electrification target by May 1, 2017
NT NETWORK CANSAULIM The Union Minister for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal, on Friday, said that the power ministers have agreed to meet the target of electrifying all un-electrified...
View ArticleMBBS admission schedule will be released by next week: CM
NT NETWORK PANAJI Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, on Friday, assured the parents of students seeking admissions to the MBBS course at the Goa Medical College that the admission schedule for the...
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