No water scarcity in Mormugao taluka: PWD
VASCO: The assistant engineer PWD (water section) Vishwambhar Bhende said that there is no scarcity of water during the summer months in Mormugao taluka. He opined that the water supply in Mormugao...
View ArticleEqual facilities for men, women at Betim mosque, dargah
SHOAIB SHAIKH | NT Staff Reporter PANAJI: The Hazrat Mohammad Hamza Shah complex at Betim, Porvorim which houses the Masjid-e-Hamza and a dargah of the Sufi saint is open to all irrespective of the...
View ArticleGovt must identify source of River Sal pollution, says activist
MARGAO: Disturbed with the continued release of sewage into River Sal despite memorandums and complaints to authorities, a Margao based social activist Savio Dias had written to the chief...
View Article‘Women should not be stopped from entering mosques, dargahs’
T he Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) is of the opinion that women should have equal opportunities to pray and perform namaaz in the mosques. In an exclusive interview with our Staff Reporter Shoaib Shaikh,...
View ArticleIt’s better to manage small districts: Shinde
Dr Sachin Shinde, who was transferred to Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC), Bambolim as its administrator after being at the helm of the South Goa District Collectorate for 15 months, in an...
View ArticleEducational class for state BJP legislators, state unit office bearers...
PANAJI: The ongoing 3-day Prashikshan Varg, an educational class for the Bharatiya Janata Party legislators from Goa as well as the office bearers of the state BJP unit, is discussing a strategy as...
View Article8 huts gutted in Colvale blaze
MAPUSA: In a tragic incident at Colvale, eight huts belonging to labourers, involved in sand extraction, were gutted in fire, rendering eight families homeless. The loss due to the fire is pegged at...
View ArticleGCET average marks stand at 26.78%
PANAJI: The Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) 2016, which had a record registration of 5,531 students, had the appearing candidates obtaining 26.78 per cent average marks in four subjects namely physics,...
View ArticleGSPCB to prepare air quality index
PANAJI: The Goa State Pollution Control Board by this month will start preparing air quality index that will provide detailed information on air quality to the Central Pollution Control Board. The...
View ArticleBabush continues to be in police custody
PANAJI : The police custody of St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate who has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl, was extended by two more days by the children’s court on Monday...
View ArticleIIT-Bombay is mentor for IIT-Goa
PANAJI: The senior faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Prof S S Major on Monday stated that IIT-Bombay is only a mentor for the proposed IIT-Goa, and would not be able to take any...
View ArticleGEC to be under surveillance
PANAJI: The Goa College of Engineering will place majority of its campus on the Farmagudi plateau under surveillance from October 2016 by way of CCTV as well as night vision cameras for preventing...
View ArticleAldona sarpanch voted out of power
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The Aldona sarpanch Ursula D’Souza who was elected hardly a month ago was voted out of office on Tuesday by 6-5 votes. The musical chair at the Aldona village panchayat began with a...
View ArticlePPP models make budget futile: Shantaram
NT NETWORK PANAJI Shantaram Naik MP has said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the Public Private Partnership concept is making the annual budgetary exercise futile and redundant. Naik, who was...
View Article510 cases registered under COTPA Act in Calangute
NT NETWORK CALANGUTE As part of a special drive against smoking in public places, the Calangute police have booked 510 cases under the COPTA Act. There are also reports that some foreign cigarette...
View ArticleGCZMA to ask 121 hut occupants along Baina coast to vacate
NT NETWORK VASCO The Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) will be issuing eviction notices to occupants of around 121 huts located on Baina and Katem-Baina beaches from May 18 onwards. A...
View ArticleValpoi ward 3 ‘left out’ of pre-monsoon work, alleges councillor
NT NETWORK VALPOI At a time when the entire state is preparing for monsoon, residents of ward number 3 of Valpoi Municipal Council have expressed concern over the fact that the pre-monsoon work is yet...
View ArticleCong to take out yatra against BJP govt’s failure in state
NT NETWORK PANAJI Goa Pradesh Congress Committee, on Wednesday, will take out a ‘mashaal yatra’ in the capital to protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government’s failure to fulfil the...
View ArticleLathi-charge issue: govt appoints S Goa Collector to conduct inquiry
NT NETWORK PANAJI The state government has appointed Swapnil Naik, Collector (South Goa) to conduct inquiry into the alleged incident of lathi-charge on the traditional fishermen in the city, last...
View ArticleOrder on Babush’s bail plea today
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Children’s Court will pronounce on Wednesday its order on the bail application of St Cruz MLA Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate, who is accused of raping a minor girl. The order on the...
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