Margao: South Goa collector Egna Cleetus has directed civic and health authorities to intensify surveillance, clear garbage blackspots regularly and undertake bioremediation of legacy waste dumps while reviewing implementation of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, and the 2026 amendment.She also ordered operationalisation of Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), improved waste collection and awareness drives on…
Davondem locals protest mega-construction project Margao: Villagers of Davondem in Fatorda on Tuesday staged a fresh protest against the Margao Municipal Council’s (MMC) continued inaction over a mega construction project in the village, nearly three weeks after they first marched to the municipality demanding a halt to the work.The protesters had hoped to raise the…
The programme is intended to enhance employability, promote entrepreneurship and strengthen academia-industry linkages Panaji: State govt has decided to provide Rs 34 crore to Maharashtra-based Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (TMV), Pune, to implement a skill development, technical training and employment generation initiative at the electronic manufacturing cluster (EMC), Tuem, for three years.The directorate of skill development…
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The injured crew members were identified as Jismsher Davitaze, 37, a Georgian national, and Arun Babu Varukattu, 34, an Indian national. Panaji: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Tuesday carried out a medical evacuation of two critically injured seafarers from a Panama-flagged merchant vessel in Goan waters. The injured crew members were identified as Jismsher…
Panaji: Vishvesh Naik on Tuesday resigned as RG’s general secretary and also gave up his primary and founding memberships. His departure came after the lone RG St Andre MLA, Viresh Borkar, said on Monday that he had dissolved all committees and that Naik’s order terminating his primary membership was null and void.A day after his…
Times News NetworkMargao: Authorities on Tuesday shifted 102 cattle from the demolished Dhyan Foundation gaushala at Deusa, Quepem, to a recognised gaushala in Bicholim after the animal welfare organisation failed to comply with govt’s order to relocate the animals.The relocation was carried out by officials from the directorate of animal husbandry and veterinary services after…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: Twenty-five years after it became operational, one of Goa’s five engineering institutes, Shiroda-based Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering & Information Technology (RIEIT), asked state govt not to admit students to first year to all four of its engineering programmes for the new academic year 2026-27. The decision comes after the private engineering college consistently…
The chief minister said that unregistered borewells will be fined by govt Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said state govt has now made it mandatory for those who dig borewells to undertake water conservation measures, with the help of engineers of the water resources department. He said that if ground water recharge measures…
Panaji: Even as talks continue between state and Union govts over how many villages should be notified as Western Ghats ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs), the environment ministry’s draft notification proposes declaring 108 villages in Goa as ESAs, spread across 1,461sqkm.Goa govt had urged Centre in 2024 to drop around 21 villages from the prospective list,…
