Ponda: Despite a weaker monsoon spell this season, the Mhaisal dam at Panchawadi, Shiroda, has reached 40% storage, offering some relief to farmers and residents dependent on the irrigation project.Officials and local observers said the rise has come through intermittent rainfall and sustained inflow over recent days, even as overall precipitation has remained below expectations…
Panaji: While Calangute police are yet to establish the motive behind the killing of Sandeep Salayam, a tourist from Malpe, Karnataka, whose body was found in a hotel room in Calangute last week, the main suspect was remanded in five days of police custody.The judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), Mapusa, on Thursday granted five more…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Friday upheld the decision of the town and country planning (TCP) department to revoke the technical clearance granted for the construction of a house in a public space in Cujira.The court dismissed the petition, holding that even though the original subdivision approval document is unavailable for inspection, other records,…
Panaji: A man, believed to be a tourist, jumped from the old Mandovi bridge on Friday evening, police said. A search operation was launched after police received a call around 6.30pm, with personnel from the fire and emergency services joining the effort.Police said the man’s identity has not yet been established and that he wasn’t…
Panaji: A group of tourists from Uttarakhand ventured into the waters at Sinquerim beach for a swim on Friday morning, ignoring warnings that the waters were unsafe to swim in. One of the tourists, a 26-year-old man, drowned after a strong retreating wave swept him out.The incident occurred around 6.30am, before Drishti Marine lifeguards began…
Margao: The Konkan Railway police have traced and recovered 60 mobile phones stolen from train passengers travelling on the Konkan Railway route at various times, and have arrested seven people in connection with the thefts.The stolen phones were traced through sustained investigation, technical analysis, and coordinated efforts by the staff of the Konkan Railway police…
Margao: The Konkani Bhasha Mandal (KBM) has unanimously rejected the resignation of veteran writer Datta Damodar Naik from its primary membership, days after the Mandal and the Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad (ABKP) jointly condemned his article on the pioneer of the Konkani movement, Shenoi Goembab.Naik had resigned on July 7, hours after the joint statement,…
Margao: RSS ideologue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya’s philosophy of Integral humanism, which envisions self-reliant villages free of poverty and social discrimination, is set to guide a new rural development initiative in Goa, modelled on the Deendayal Research Institute’s (DRI) Chitrakoot project.This was announced by Abhay Mahajan, senior RSS pracharak and national organising secretary of DRI Chitrakoot,…
Panaji: A Mapusa court on Friday reserved judgment in the 2013 Dhargalim-Pernem tollbooth vandalism case involving Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane. The order is expected on July 16.After a warrant was issued against Rane, He appeared before the court on Monday. He had appeared at the police station on Sunday and furnished a personal bail bond.Goa…
Margao: Over a year after state govt rolled out the Goa State Amritkal Agriculture Policy, 2025 (GSAAP-2025), stakeholders say implementation on the ground remains slow, with progressive farmers and agro-entrepreneurs calling for speedier execution and fine-tuning.TOI had repeatedly flagged Goa’s long-standing absence of a comprehensive agriculture policy. Reports had pointed out that without a well-designed…
