Colva/Mapusa: With the tourism season drawing to a close, over 353 govt-allocated beach shacks across Goa are set to shut operations by May 31, ending the annual shack season that began in Sep. The closure, enforced since the 1970s, is a precautionary measure ahead of the monsoon.Shack owners across both South and North Goa described…
India have won the SAFF Women’s Championship five times Panaji: The South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) plans to capitalise on the surging growth and quality of women’s football in the region and could stage the SAFF Women’s Championship every year.The SAFF Women’s Championship has been held biannually since 2010 with India winning the first five…
Panaji: An inspection to verify allegations of a 20m illegal road in khazan land near Neura panchayat has brought to light a more serious violation, land-filling of nearly 2,000 sq m area for a farmhouse with a swimming pool.The illegal mud-filling appears to have been done over several months in a concealed part of the…
Margao: A Mumbai-based man has filed a complaint with Fatorda police alleging that 11 co-occupants of a shared property forged his and his wife’s signatures on a power of attorney and illegally sold the property.The complainant, Josico Miguel Brito, a resident of Borivili (West), Mumbai, alleged that the fraud took place on Nov 22, 2024,…
Panaji: The Goa police cybercrime cell on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly cheating a Margao resident of Rs 2 crore by promising high returns on share market investments. An FIR was registered based on a complaint filed by the Margao resident.Superintendent of police (cybercrime) Raju Raut Desai said the accused, using a WhatsApp number…
Panaji: Goa police’s cybercrime cell arrested a man from Maharashtra in connection with a Rs 14 lakh digital arrest scam targeting a woman from Caranzalem.Police said the accused allegedly posed as officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the directorate of enforcement (ED) to defraud the woman. Based on the woman’s complaint, the…
Panaji: The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (Goa-SEIAA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 31.2 lakh on a residential-cum-commercial project at Odxel in Taleigao for environmental violations.The project proponents had applied for environmental clearance in March 2023 before the Goa State Expert Appraisal Committee (Goa-SEAC). However, the committee did not recommend the proposal after…
Panaji: The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (Goa-SEIAA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 31.2 lakh on a residential-cum-commercial project at Odxel in Taleigao for environmental violations.The project proponents had applied for environmental clearance in March 2023 before the Goa State Expert Appraisal Committee (Goa-SEAC). However, the committee did not recommend the proposal after…
Panaji: Fr Bolmax Pereira, a priest of the Goa archdiocese, academic and prominent activist who championed the environment, died at 4.30am on Tuesday after a cardiac arrest at the GMC. He was 50.A native of Quepem, Pereira was serving as parish priest at St Francis Xavier Church, Chicalim. He also balanced pastoral responsibilities with academics…
Panaji: The public works department (PWD) has said that the right-hand side of NH-66 from near Hotel Neo Majestic in Porvorim towards Gauri petrol pump will remain shut till June 16 to carry out the final leg of superstructure work on the six-lane elevated corridor under construction at Porvorim. The stretch was earlier scheduled to…
