Ready to contest all 40 seats: NCP
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday expressed its willingness to contest all the 40 constituencies in the next state assembly elections, putting the onus of forming an alliance...
View ArticleLED light ban is in force, says govt
NT NETWORK PANAJI After the use of LED lights for fishing was banned last week, the fisheries department has identified and ordered a couple of boat owners to remove the lights from their vessels,...
View ArticleBabush released on conditional bail
PANAJI: The children’s court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate, who had been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl. Along with Monserrate two...
View ArticleRainwater harvesting a pipe dream
ABDUL WAHAB KHAN | NT Staff Reporter PANAJI: Not a single building in the city has rainwater harvesting system in place despite the mechanism being compulsory for new buildings. The state government...
View ArticleDM’s physics students visit NIO
VALPOI: The department of Physics of D M’s College and Research Centre, Assagao recently organised a visit to the National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO), Dona Paula as a part of students’...
View ArticleParallel culvert at Vaddem to ease traffic load on existing one
VASCO: The public works department has taken up construction of a parallel culvert near Pai Nursing Home along Vaddem slope. The work is going on in full swing. The existing culvert, built during the...
View ArticleOrdinance for regularisation of illegal houses in July assembly session: Mauvin
VASCO: South Goa Planning and Development Authority (SGPDA) chairman Mauvin Godinho said that the ordinance pertaining to regularisation of houses constructed on comunidade, private and government...
View ArticleAnjuna culvert ready, locals await opening
MAPUSA: One of the long-pending demands of villagers of Anjuna has finally been fulfilled as the work on new wider Tito culvert has been completed by PWD, however, it has been more than 20 days and the...
View ArticlePharmacy gutted in Nuvem fire
MARGAO: A major fire broke out in a pharmacy at Nuvem near the Hero showroom on Wednesday morning, destroying medicines and other valuables worth over Rs 75 lakh. Verna fire services said that...
View ArticleBJP-MGP alliance will win 26 plus seats: Damodar
MARGAO: BJP state general secretary Damodar Naik criticised the state Congress and its president Luizinho Faleiro for ‘misleading’ the people of the state in order to gain political mileage. Naik said...
View ArticleEither perform or perish: Luizinho to party workers
PANAJI: The issue of young versus the old stood out at the GPCC executive committee meeting with the young for the first time raising the issue in the party forum and the old trying to console the...
View ArticleCongress ups the ante to expose BJP govt’s ‘false promises’
PANAJI: Congress party on Wednesday lit the ‘torch against oppression and false promises of the BJP’ as thousands of workers and supporters of the party with 600 mashaals thronged the roads of Panaji...
View Article2% pending work of Mapusa police station building awaits approval
NT NETWORK MAPUSA The Mapusa police station building work has been delayed as two per cent pending work of it is yet to get approval. The civil work of the building is completed; however, work related...
View ArticleMapusa civic chief urged to ensure proper cleaning of market drains
NT NETWORK MAPUSA A delegation of Mapusa merchant association on Thursday urged the chairperson of Mapusa Municipal Council to look into issues like desilting of drains in the market, garbage...
View ArticleGoa police unlikely to challenge Babush’s bail
NT NETWORK PANAJI Goa police are unlikely to challenge the order of the children’s court which granted conditional bail to St Cruz MLA Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate in an alleged rape case of a minor...
View ArticleMargao industrial estate inspected over mosquito-breeding sites
NT NETWORK SAO JOSE DE AREAL The core committee on vector-borne diseases on Thursday inspected the Margao industrial estate and found drains choked with waste, discarded tubelights and discharge of...
View ArticleIt’s high time authorities granted permission for pontoon cutting: Alina
NT NETWORK VASCO Minister for Science and Technology Alina Saldanha on Thursday stated that the concerned authorities should issue necessary permissions required to cut the grounded pontoon, otherwise...
View ArticleGoan politics at low ebb: Babush
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that his “frame-up in the rape case” has not shaken his resolve to contest the forthcoming assembly election from the Panaji constituency, St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’...
View ArticleBJP to field more than 6 Catholic candidates
NT NETWORK PANAJI The three-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, which was conducted in...
View ArticleMapusa civic body takes parking fee contractor to task for flouting terms
NT NETWORK MAPUSA Mapusa Municipal Council has terminated the parking fee collection contract with immediate effect after the contractor failed to adhere to the terms and conditions of the contract....
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