Three units were recently destroyed in a fire in Cortalim constituency, highlighting the risks associated with unregulated scrapyards operating near residential areas Margao: More than a year after chief minister Pramod Sawant assured the assembly that govt would formulate a comprehensive policy to relocate illegal scrapyards within six months, no such policy has materialised, with…
Leader of the opposition Yuri Alemao Saligao: Leader of opposition Yuri Alemao on Friday urged voters to ensure that political defectors “lose their deposits” in the 2027 assembly elections, targeting Saligao MLA Kedar Naik for switching from Congress to BJP after winning the seat on a Congress ticket in 2022.Alemao was addressing a gathering in…
GSL designed and constructed the fast patrol vessel LESPWAR, which was officially handed over to the Seychelles Coast Guard by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 27 Panaji: State-run defence shipbuilder Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) saw its total revenue, breaching the Rs 4,000 crore threshold this fiscal year to reach Rs 4,004 crore for the…
Keri: Despite govt’s strict ban on the manufacture, import, and sale of plaster of paris (PoP) Ganesh idols, many have been found this year at several locations in Sattari, polluting water bodies. Even in fast-flowing rivers, such idols lay undissolved, choking aquatic life and blocking waterways.Synthetic paints used to decorate the idols often contain hazardous…
Panaji: With Goa’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy expected within a month, the state is already putting AI to work, with the IT and tourism departments launching chatbots to help citizens access govt services and tourists find verified information and assistance.The department of information technology, electronics & communications (DITE&C), in collaboration with Goa Electronics Limited (GEL),…
Panaji: GFP president and Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai on Thursday alleged the 2027 Goa assembly elections are being systematically manipulated through large-scale voter deletions. Calling the process a “rigged election” driven by “vote chori” (vote theft), he alleged that traditional non-BJP voters have been wiped from the state’s electoral rolls.He said that victory margins in…
Margao: AAP Goa on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the issue of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls that has left scores of genuine voters off the list.AAP Goa president Valmiki Naik said the 97 Goan voters are yet to be restored to the rolls despite officials…
Margao: Congress working president Sunil Kawthankar on Thursday accused govt’s move to privatise key public assets even as he maintained that Congress’s Goy Rakhon Yatra draws a strong public response across the state.Citing a tender floated by the Captain of Ports department, Kawthankar said govt plans to privatise its main building in Panaji, along with…
Panaji: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Panaji, on Thursday attached a property at Socorro village valued at Rs 4.2 crore in connection with an alleged land grab case.The 5,000-sqm property, comprising 11 plots, has been attached under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.Porvorim police had registered an FIR under the…
Financial assistance of Rs 13 crore from the Seafarers Welfare Fund Society has been approved for a Seafarers’ Welfare Centre at Mormugao port Margao: Centre has assured South Goa MP Viriato Fernandes of upgrading the state’s marine training and seafarers’ welfare infrastructure.In a letter to Fernandes, Union minister for ports, shipping and waterways Sarbananda Sonowal…
