AAP assures to set up ward-level clinics in Goa
VASCO: Stating that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will start declaring its candidates for the forthcoming 2017 Goa assembly election in ten days’ time, Delhi minister Satyendra Jain Sunday said that AAP...
View ArticleIPR is gaining lot of relevance at the global level: Lotlikar
PANAJI: An awareness programme on ‘Intellectual Property Rights,’ (IPR) was conducted recently at the V M Salgaocar College of Law (VMSCL), Miramar which was organised by MSME-Development Institute,...
View ArticleMRS wants govt to act swiftly on official language status for Marathi
PONDA: Marathi Rajbhasha Samiti (MRS) members, on Sunday, met the BJP state unit president Vinay Tendulkar, requesting for a special assembly session to pass a legislation to accord official language...
View ArticleGarbage problem continues to haunt Margao
In absence of strict action against garbage dumping at improper places, several spots in Margao have turned into garbage dumps. It is a regular feature wherein garbage is being found disposed of...
View ArticleThird Eye
BRICS and tricks in Saxtti Shadowman was as usual on Saxtti tour during the last week. He found a lot of development taking place in the constituency represented by Caetano D’Silva – road widening,...
View ArticleDDSSY: in first week claims of Rs 10 lakh made
MAPUSA: Expressing happiness over the response to Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana, the flagship scheme of the state government, Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza, who is also Health Minister, said...
View ArticleRebel faction of RSS vows to defeat BJP at polls
BAMBOLIM : The members of the rebel faction of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in state, during a convention held on Sunday, resolved to continue support to the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch...
View ArticlePillion dies as motorcycle rams into bus at Utorda
VASCO: The pillion rider of a motorcycle died on the spot while the rider Prashant Palkonda (21) of Merces, Bambolim was left critically injured as the vehicle rammed into a Bengaluru-bound bus while...
View Article16 injured in bus, goods carrier collision in Quepem
CURCHOREM: Sixteen persons were left injured with four sustaining grievous injuries when a speeding passenger mini-bus on way to Curchorem from Quepem collided with a goods carrier coming from the...
View ArticleSpecial court allows petition challenging closure of Serula land case
PANAJI : The Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act has allowed to file a protest petition objecting to the move by the Crime Branch to close down the alleged Serula Communidade cheating...
View ArticleYet another inspection of controversial Benaulim project; forum cries foul
BENAULIM: BDO and Benaulim village panchayat on Monday carried out yet another inspection of the controversial Triumph Reality project at Benaulim even as the Benaulim Civic and Social Forum cried foul...
View ArticlePrices of goats soar in city market
PANAJI: Prices of goats soared in the city market as the Bakri Eid will be celebrated on Tuesday. Qurbani (sacrifice of goat) could be performed even two days after the Eid. A wholesaler and retailer...
View ArticleRoad hot-mixed for BRICS ‘washed away’
BENAULIM: While the PWD and various government departments are racing against time to complete the infrastructure for the forthcoming BRICS summit scheduled in South Goa on October 15 and October 16,...
View ArticleBJP rules out any impact of rebel RSS group on its poll prospects
PANAJI: Indicating that the ongoing agitation of the rebel Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) Goa unit led by Subhash Velingkar will have no negative impact on the winning prospects of the Bharatiya...
View ArticleMhadei: Goa exposes K’taka’s mishandling of Malaprabha water
SAKHALI: Goa Monday filed a new additional affidavit before the Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal in New Delhi exposing Karnataka on the mismanagement of water in the Malaprabha basin. It may be noted that...
View ArticleCounter-terrorism to dominate BRICS summit
PANAJI: Counter-terrorism, an item suggested by India, the host of the BRICS 2016 Summit, is expected to dominate the agenda for this summit to be held in South Goa on October 15 and 16, later this...
View ArticleNot a fishy business
With rain subsiding in the state, mackerels are kept for drying in the hot sun by residents along a roadside at Ambelim in Velim on Monday
View ArticleAssembly election: Churchill for use of VVPAT-fitted EVMs
MARGAO: Former chief minister Churchill Alemao, on Tuesday, demanded with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to make use of electronic voting machines fitted with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit...
View ArticleTension at Cutbona over soil testing for Rs 47-crore jetty upgradation
VELIM: Five months after the foundation stone was laid for Rs 47-crore upgradation of the Cutbona jetty, the work of soil testing, that was being undertaken, ran into rough weather with the fishermen...
View ArticleTCP asks Curtorim VP to initiate action over ‘illegal plots’
CURTORIM: Terming the plots developed near the leprosy hospital in Curtorim as illegal, Town and Country Planning Department (TCP) has asked the village panchayat to initiate action over it as per...
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