Bank manager, clerk held for swindling Rs 2.44 crore of depositors’ money
PANAJI: Crime Branch police on Thursday arrested a manager and a clerk of a nationalised bank on charges of allegedly swindling depositors’ money to the tune of Rs 2.44 crore. The accused have been...
View ArticleKamakshi Forex fraud: HC seeks EOC reply on filing separate FIRs
PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has asked the Economic Offences Cell (EOC) to find out the feasibility of filing separate FIRs and probing complaints of duped investors in the Kamakshi Forex...
View ArticleGovt says ‘103% adult coverage’, but no Aadhar for many youth
SHOAIB SHAIKH | NT Staff Reporter PANAJI: Even as a government authority has claimed that around 103 per cent adults in the state have obtained the unique identity under the AADHAAR card, a random...
View ArticleSwindling case: bank manager, clerk sent to four-day police custody
NT NETWORK PANAJI Udit Narayan and Swagatika Mohanty, the then manager and clerk respectively of Bank of Baroda’s Anjuna branch (both suspended) have been remanded to four days police custody. Both...
View ArticleGovt undertaking development with thrust on common man: CM
NT NETWORK BICHOLIM Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said that the government is undertaking various development projects with common man as the focal point for a balanced progress of the state. “It...
View ArticleFDA shuts down 2 Mapusa fast food outlets
NT NETWORK MAPUSA Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) sleuths conducted a raid at Alankar Theatre, Mapusa and seized outdated masala packets worth Rs 27,000 and closed down two illegal fast food...
View ArticleAnjuna girl’s body handed over to parents
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The dead body of the minor girl, who was allegedly killed by a French woman, who had adopted her, has been handed over to her biological parents by Anjuna police. Meanwhile, police...
View ArticleGoan stakeholders Dempo, Dattaraj quit FC Goa
NT NETWORK PANAJI In a culmination of distressing prolonged adjudication of the case relating to events that happened after the ISL finals of December 2015, the two Goan stakeholders of FC Goa...
View ArticleNo redressal of complaints in state child care institutions
NT NETWORK PANAJI The women and child development department, which has been implementing the Goa Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children), Rules 2013 in the state has found that 45 of the 60...
View ArticleHC quashes state govt’s revised seniority list
NT NETWORK PANAJI The High Court of Bombay at Goa has upheld Elvis Gomes’ contention over the seniority list. A senior bureaucrat of the Goa civil services, Elvis Gomes had moved the High Court...
View ArticleFrancis says 2017 may be his last election
NT NETWORK VASCO Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza Friday said that he is desirous of contesting the forthcoming Goa assembly election from Mapusa constituency and that he would think about...
View ArticleIdea of grand alliance in Goa turns into farce
SHOAIB SHAIKH | NT Staff Reporter PANAJI The idea to form a ‘mahagathbandhan’ on the lines of the grand alliance that won the Bihar elections has virtually collapsed and the Congress party, which was...
View ArticleTrade unions: workers losing Rs 30-40 a day after ‘revision’ of minimum wages
NT NETWORK PANAJI Around 3 lakh workers, employed in different industries all over the state, are losing Rs 30-40 a day after “the government has revised minimum wages for all schedules of...
View Article2 pimps arrested in sex racket
NT NETWORK PANAJI Two accused pimps, Raju Maidali native of Assam and Rajeshwar Pawar, native of Maharashtra were arrested by the Crime Branch police in connection with a prostitution racket. The duo...
View ArticleHouse damaged as strong winds hit Vasco
NT NETWORK VASCO A rear portion of a house owned by Grego Mendes residing at Desterro in Vasco was damaged due to incessant rain which was accompanied by gusty winds during Saturday early morning....
View ArticleAgapito group hikes pao price from Rs 3 to Rs 4
NT NETWORK MARGAO President of the All Goa Association of Bakers Agapito Menezes, on Saturday, informed that the price of pao will be increased from Rs 3 to Rs 4 from August 1. This decision was taken...
View ArticleSelaulim dam overflows
NT NETWORK CURCHOREM This year, the Selaulim dam reservoir overflowed a day earlier than the last year. The executive engineer of PWD Anant Gaonkar informed that the dam reservoir started overflowing...
View ArticleCasinos helped balance economy during ‘severe crisis’ after mining ban: CM
NT NETWORK VASCO Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said that casinos have helped the state to balance the economy during the severe economic crisis that prevailed soon after the total ban was imposed...
View Article‘Drama’ unfolds on tiatr stage
NT NETWORK MARGAO Tension prevailed at the Ravindra Bhavan in Margao on Saturday evening while a tiatr (Konkani drama) titled ‘Answer’ was being staged there when a group headed by a woman marched onto...
View ArticleAmendment to Portugal law has no bearing on citizenship issue faced by Goans:...
NT NETWORK PANAJI Additional Solicitor General of India Atmaram Nadkarni said that the recent Seventh amendment to Portuguese Law No 37/81 (Nationality Act) – Lei Orgânica Nº. 9/2015, de 29 de Julho –...
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