Calangute: Calangute MLA Michael Lobo on Saturday said the death of a youth in Mapusa, linked to a garbage dumping incident, highlights Goa’s waste management crisis.Lobo said that with no waste collection mechanism in the surrounding villages, people bring garbage bags when they come to Mapusa for work or to drop their children off at…
Panaji: The North Goa district magistrate constituted a four-member district committee to audit examination centres for tests conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination scheduled for June 21.North Goa deputy collector Ishwar Madkaikar, has been appointed chairperson of the committee. The other members are Shaikh M Salim, deputy superintendent…
AICC secretary and Goa co-in-charge Anjali Nimbalkar was in the state on Saturday Margao: The change of guard at the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee was not a hastily taken decision but was preceded by one-on-one discussions that the Congress high command held with every key stakeholder in the state, AICC secretary and Goa co-in-charge Anjali…
Panaji: South Goa MP Viriato Fernandes has written to Union minister for ports, shipping and waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, urging Centre to address a range of long-standing gaps in maritime welfare, particularly from the indignity faced by Indian seafarers denied shore leave at domestic ports.Fernandes has also presented Sonowal a five-point proposal to overhaul Goa’s maritime…
Panaji: The southwest monsoon which had advanced over South Goa on Friday, moved further and crossed the remaining parts of Goa and covered some more parts of Karnataka, Maharashtra and other adjoining regions, though sunny conditions mostly prevailed during the day.While the conditions are favourable for its further advance into more parts of central Arabian…
Panaji: The town and country planning (TCP) department has proposed to classify 41 lakh sqm of ecologically sensitive land across Goa as non-developable area. While the department claims that it is taking steps to protect ecologically fragile land, environmentalists said that these paddy fields, mangroves, khazan lands, water bodies and sand dunes are already protected…
The sawdust used as spawn to grow the mushrooms caught fire on Saturday Ponda: A mushroom growing factory at Usgao, Ponda, was gutted after the sawdust used as spawn to grow the mushrooms caught fire on Saturday evening. The sawdust stocked was highly combustible and was being shifted out with the help of an excavator…
Margao: Tension gripped Rumdamol-Davorlim on Saturday after Gorakshak Goa chief, Ravindra Redkar, was allegedly assaulted at a fast food outlet in the village, triggering heavy police deployment and a protest march by Bajrang Dal activists demanding action against illegal stalls operating near two temples.The incident, which occurred on Wednesday night, began when two people visiting…
Mock gram sabha in Goa Screenshot Panaji: From drunkards to farmers and from trans persons to housewives, an eclectic mix of people took part in a gram sabha in Goa recently, debating and discussing protection of land, stopping of mega projects and even generating revenue for the panchayat.Only that it was a mock gram sabha…
Vasco: Five stray cattle were mowed down by a speeding cargo truck late on Friday at the Verna industrial estate. Police arrested the driver, Shah Mohamad Ansari, a native of Mumbai, who, according to the police, was drunk at the time of the accident.The police said that the accident took place at around 11.30pm, near…
