Vasco: Vasco police have registered an FIR against a dog owner for allegedly leaving her dog outside her premises, where it attacked and bit a woman, causing injuries.The complaint was lodged by Rhea Victoria D’Souza, a resident of Pixem Dongri, Vasco. She alleged that on Sep 17, around 4.30pm, the accused, Milagres D’Silva, knowing that…
Margao/Mapusa/Canacona: Three house thefts reported across South and North Goa in recent days have resulted in gold ornaments and cash worth more than Rs 32 lakh being stolen, with one case leading to the arrest of a man and a juvenile.In the latest incident, unidentified persons broke into a locked house at Bamanbhati, Arambol, on…
Ponda: Uddhav Balasaheb Koli, 25, a resident of Pandharpur, Maharashtra, died on the spot at Kerye-Khandepar, about 4km from Ponda on the Goa-Karnataka national highway, on Friday afternoon after his motorcycle collided with a broken-down container truck.Abhishek Bhimrao Dhavre, 25, also from Pandharpur, who was riding pillion, was critically injured and shifted to Goa Medical…
Passengers were left waiting for hours at the bus stand with no official communication Panaji: Gross mismanagement and poor advance planning at the Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) Margao depot left interstate passengers stranded during the peak festival rush of Ganesh Chaturthi.While interstate travel demand peaked on the fifth day of the festival, the Margao depot…
Ponda: As dusk settled over Adpai, 19 family Ganesha idols glided into Zuari River aboard decorated canoes, bringing alive the village’s centuries-old ‘Kutumb’ immersion tradition on the fifth day of Ganesh Chaturthi.Thousands gathered to witness the spectacle, rooted not in public pandals but in ancestral joint families, or ‘kutumbs’. Members who have moved across India…
Sterilisations rose from 13,074 in 2023 to 14,324 in 2025 Margao: Even as the number of stray dogs sterilised under Goa’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme rose from 13,074 in 2023 to 14,324 in 2025, state govt’s budget for the scheme was cut by half over the same period, according to a written reply tabled…
Sandesh Jhingan was left out of India’s squad for the upcoming friendlies Panaji: Sandesh Jhingan’s commitment to the national team can never be questioned.The India defender played with ligament tear in the knee against Syria at the AFC Asian Cup, took the field with a heavily-bandaged head against UAE, and had his eyebrows stitched against…
Panaji: The food and drugs administration (FDA) has imposed penalties on multiple food business operators for manufacturing and selling substandard food. It also penalised unlicensed outlets and businesses operating under unhygienic conditions.M/s Shree Chemfood Pvt. Ltd., Gujarat, was penalised Rs 2 lakh for allegedly selling misbranded and substandard iodised salt.Dharwad Mishra Pedha and Food Processing…
Panaji: The Bombay high court quashed the deportation order issued against a 47-year-old Austrian national, holding that she was not given an opportunity to be heard before the decision was taken.The woman arrived in India in Jan 2020 on a tourist visa valid until Dec 2020. Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the…
Residents are now questioning how the roads will cope once normal traffic resumes next week Panaji: The closure of the entry and exit points of the Porvorim six-lane elevated corridor on the Hotel Neo Majestic side has left residents unable to use the infrastructure built for their convenience, while traffic congestion is already building up…
