GFP Chief Vijai Sardesai boarded on an excavator during protest by villagers at Velsao against double tracking and blocking of right of way by the railway authorities.tachment Vasco: Protests in Velsao against the rail double-tracking project witnessed high drama as Goa Forward Party (GFP) chief Vijai Sardesai and former Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Amit…
Bibiano Fernandes was the technical committee’s top choice for the U-15 job Panaji: Bibiano Fernandes has accepted an offer from the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to coach the national team for the FIFA U-15 World Cup & Festival 2026 later this year in Azerbaijan.The former India U-17 coach was the technical committee’s top choice…
Margao: Three years after the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) sat housing societies down to talk decentralised composting, and two months after it inaugurated a Rs 7.5-crore gasification plant, one basic question remains unanswered: why can’t Goa’s second-largest municipality get its residents to segregate garbage at source — and why has the council never cracked down…
Community leaders said the constituency has around 3,500 SC voters Mapusa: Members of Pernem’s Scheduled Caste (SC) community expressed frustration over the lack of local representation in the reserved constituency for decades and called for unity to ensure a local candidate wins the 2027 Assembly election.Speaking at a convention in Pernem on Sunday, leaders said…
Panaji: The Centre sent at six-member team of officers from the cabinet secretariat and NITI Aayog to take stock of Goa’s progress under phase-II of the compliance reduction and deregulation exercise. The exercise was launched in Jan with the objective of further reducing the compliance burden towards ease of doing business and ease of living.Inland…
A close-up view of a dengue-carrying Aedes mosquito perched on human skin, highlighting the striped legs and proboscis associated with dengue fever transmission. Panaji: South Goa District Hospital has recorded 71 dengue cases in the first 10 days of Aug, with 27 patients requiring hospital admission.Dengue cases detected at the hospital’s lab rose sharply from…
Girish Chodankar said the chief minister is trying to ensure that political parties do not support the Karapur villagers Panaji: State Congress president Girish Chodankar said that the party will not be coerced into silence by veiled threats from govt and the House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL). Chodankar claimed that chief minister Pramod Sawant is…
Panaji: The town and country planning (TCP) department has formally amended the Regional Plan 2021 to designate 9.7 lakh sqm of land as non-developable area (NDA) across Majorda and Gonsua in Salcete and Sao Jorge Island in Mormugao.The three proposals, covering large stretches of paddy fields, khazan land, water bodies, sand dunes and protected forest,…
The tourism department said the that construction of the proposed convention centre could not be completed due to administrative constraints Panaji: The tourism department has approached the Goa Investment Promotion Board (IPB) to seek in-principle approval for the completion and vertical expansion of the existing convention centre and hotel complex at Patto Plaza. The department…
Panaji: Panaji crossed the 1,000 mm seasonal rainfall mark on Sunday, recording 1,001.4 mm since June 1, according to the data of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). This monsoon, the state’s driest station received 17.8 mm of rain in the 24 hours ending 8.30am on Aug 9.All 14 rain gauge stations across Goa have now…
