Protest over digging works near Margao pick-up stand
MARGAO: Citing danger to the building adjoining the pick-up stand from work of digging up of trenches, pick-up drivers along with some nearby residents complained to chief officer of Margao Municipal...
View ArticleNavelim VP to impose 3% penalty for delayed house tax payment
NAVELIM: With all other efforts failing, Navelim village panchayat in order to recover Rs 26 lakh outstanding house tax has decided to impose 3 per cent penalty for delayed payment. The panchayat had...
View ArticleWard 13 councillor recklessly balding trees
PANAJI : Commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) Sanjit Rodrigues on Thursday issued a circular charting out guidelines for cutting trees in the jurisdiction of the Corporation,...
View ArticleSt Inez animal shelter land attracting builders
Panaji, within a month-and-a-half of getting a new council for its civic body, which promised to earnestly undertake development, is now facing threat to its tree cover from none other than the...
View ArticleGovt soft-pedals on fare meters and GPS for cabs
PANAJI : Succumbing to the pressure from taxi owners, the government on Thursday postponed to August 1, 2016 the date for enforcing the rule on fare meters and global positioning system tracking...
View ArticleChild sex ratio declining in Goa
SHOAIB SHAIKH | NT Staff Reporter PANAJI : After seeing positive indicators for two consecutive years in the child birth sex ratio, Goa has recorded a sharp decline with 932 girls birth registered per...
View ArticleBabush allegedly bought girl for Rs 50 lakh
PANAJI: St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate, who is accused of raping a minor girl, had allegedly purchased the victim for a sum of Rs 50 lakh for sexual exploitation. It has come to light that...
View ArticleBABUSH ARRESTED FOR RAPING MINOR GIRL
PANAJI: St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate was on Thursday arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl. In addition, Monserrate has also been booked for exploiting a trafficked person. The...
View ArticleFDA seizes artificially-ripened mangoes worth Rs 5 lakh
PANAJI: The officials of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on Friday, seized around 4000 kg of artificially-ripened mangoes worth Rs 5 lakh from a fruit vendor’s house at Siolim. The mangoes were...
View ArticleTraditional fishermen to stage dharna if no action taken against LED lights
CALANGUTE: Traditional fishermen from Calangute, Candolim and Nerul have extended their support to their counterparts who are fighting against use of LED lights on trawlers, bull trolleys and...
View ArticleDredging: NGT directs MPT to deposit Rs 50 crore with GCZMA in week
VASCO: National Green Tribunal’s Pune bench has directed the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) to deposit Rs 50 crore as bank guarantee with the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) within a week or...
View ArticleGovt issues 15-day deadline to remove pontoon from Arossim
PANAJI/VASCO: The government has issued a notice to Arihant Ship Breakers from Mumbai to remove within 15 days the grounded pontoon ‘Bhageerath – I’ off the coast of Arossim beach, else the vessel will...
View ArticleWestern bypass: CM assures to build flyovers wherever required
NAVELIM: In a bid to cool down the growing dissent over the western bypass mainly with elections fast approaching, the Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has assured that the road will not cause...
View ArticleVelim grapples with water scarcity
Joao Sousa M | NT VELIM: With the rise in mercury levels, water scarcity has hit some high altitude areas in Velim and Ambelim in Salcete taluka with ‘tail-end’ users are worst affected. However, PWD...
View ArticleHalt to mining, slowdown push down Goa’s revenue
PANAJI: The halt to mining activities and the economic slowdown in the state have made the country’s treasury lose around Rs 2000 crore annually since the financial year 2012-13. The income-tax...
View ArticleCM strikes cautious note on Sanguem brewery
PANAJI: Stating that the government is keeping a vigilant watch over the setting up of a distillery and brewery at Amdai in Sanguem taluka, which was cleared by the Investment Promotion Board, Chief...
View ArticleBabush remanded to 3-day police custody
PANAJI: St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate, who had been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl, was on Friday remanded to three-day police custody. Monserrate has also been booked on...
View ArticleFOOTBALL IN GOA HURT BY ISL STAB
PANAJI: Politicians in Goa were not only miffed but wondered the logic behind the ISL Disciplinary Commission penalties on FC Goa and its co-owners Shrinivas Dempo and Dattaraj Salgaocar. “This is a...
View ArticleBanjara youth association holds felicitation in Vasco
NT NETWORK VASCO Goa Banjara Youth Association (GBYA) felicitated four scribes of print and electronic media from Vasco for Atheir outstanding role in social field during the Inter Banjara Cultural...
View ArticleParrikar reviews MCMV infrastructure facilities at GSL
NT NETWORK VASCO The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday visited the Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) in Vasco along with Power Minister Milind Naik. He was accompanied by the chairman and managing...
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