Bribery charges against Garg to be probed: CM
NT NETWORK PANAJI Making a statement in the state legislative assembly on Friday as regards bribery charges against inspector-general of police Sunil Garg by a Vasco-based businessman Munnalal...
View ArticleWorkers welfare funds grossly underutilised, says CAG report
NT NETWORK PANAJI While conditions of workers in Goa’s construction industry remains dismal, the CAG audit report has revealed shocking indifference by government in utilizing funds collected for...
View ArticleHouse passes resolution demanding official language status to Marathi
NT NETWORK PANAJI/MARGAO The state legislative assembly on the last day of the monsoon session passed a private member’s resolution moved by Bicholim MLA Naresh Sawal seeking to grant Marathi the...
View ArticleFrancis says DDSSY will reduce burden on GMC
NT NETWORK PANAJI Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza on Friday expressed confidence that Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim, would be relieved of its intense load in terms of patients...
View ArticleAvertano assures to probe allegations over beach cleaning labourers
NT NETWORK PANAJI Minister for Labour and Employment Avertano Furtado, on Friday, agreed to carry out an investigation into the allegations related to labourers, employed by the beach cleaning...
View ArticleCM: select committee reconstitution will pave way for clearing of Goa...
NT NETWORK PANAJI Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, on Friday, said in the state legislative assembly that the select committee of the state legislative assembly headed by Manohar Parrikar would be...
View ArticleGCA will be issued notice over Phadke appointment: Tawadkar
NT NETWORK PANAJI Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Ramesh Tawadkar, on Friday, stated in the state legislative assembly that although the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) has no role to play in...
View ArticleGovt should challenge casino company’s petition against recurring licence...
NT NETWORK PANAJI Charging the government of colluding with M/s Golden Globe Hotels Pvt Ltd to bring the sixth casino in River Mandovi, by admitting before the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court its...
View Article2STC: Bill tabled for allotting plots to displaced people
NT NETWORK PANAJI In order to allot plots to people displaced during the establishment of 2 Signal Training Centre (2STC) (3 Military Training Regiment) in Salcete, the government, on Friday,...
View Article10 injured in Fatorpa bus-truck collision
MARGAO: In a collision between a bus and a truck reported at Fatorpa, ten persons including the driver of the bus were injured. According to police sub inspector Tukaram Chavan of Cuncolim police...
View ArticleProbe reveals ITI instructor took lot of people for a ride
PANAJI: K Henry Daniel (58), the senior instructor at the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Panaji, accused in an alleged bribery case, seems to have cheated a number of people by promising...
View ArticleSurvey gives more seats for AAP than BJP in 2017 polls
PANAJI: A recent survey conducted by a private data analytics company shows Arvind Kejriwal’s party winning the 2017 assembly elections in the state with a decent number of seats. Aam Aadmi Party...
View ArticleThree Kerala youths held with Rs 18.60 lakh worth foreign cigarettes
PANAJI/VASCO: Panaji police on Saturday apprehended three youths from Kerala after they were found to be having foreign cigarettes worth ` 18.60 lakh in their possession. According to police, the...
View ArticleChildren at receiving end of laxity
SHAIKH JAMALUDDIN | NT PANAJI: Over 1,481 dog bite cases have been reported at the Panaji urban health centre this year till date with people of all ages, including toddlers and infants, being victims....
View ArticleNo dogged resolve: govt fails to subdue canine ferocity
ABDUL WAHAB KHAN | NT PANAJI: The state has been unable to confront the might of canine ferocity. The efforts of the government to subdue man’s best friend, which often turns menacing and ferocious,...
View ArticleEfforts on to foil grabbing of overseas Goans’ land
PANAJI: Informing that the state administration is unaware about many properties of non-resident Goans and their houses in Goa being sold without their knowledge by forging of the documents, the...
View ArticleAshpaq murder: inquiry report points to security lapses
PANAJI: The internal inquiry conducted by Goa prison authorities into the murder of undertrial prisoner Ashpaq Bengre by fellow jailbird Vinayak Karbotkar in July at the Central Jail, Colvale, has...
View ArticleGovt giving shape to new agriculture policy
PANAJI : The state government is in the process of formulation of a comprehensive state agriculture policy, which proposes to conserve and protect various local varieties of vegetables. Minister for...
View ArticleCS may probe bribery charges against beleaguered Garg
PANAJI : The government has zeroed on Chief Secretary R K Srivastava for conducting an inquiry into the bribe related-charges against the inspector general of police Sunil Garg by a Vasco-based...
View ArticleIndia set to retain fastest growing economy tag
Eduardo Faleiro On August 15, we celebrate the Independence Day. On this day, in 1947, India put an end to colonial rule and affirmed itself as a sovereign and democratic nation. The colonial rule...
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