The arrest of the inmate follows a security operation conducted at the prison complex on Friday Mapusa: Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Mapusa has remanded Rovina Lobo, a prisoner at the Colvale Central Jail, in two days of police custody. She was arrested by the Colvale police on Saturday after a suspended security guard, during…
Govt has invited objections to the proposal, asking them to be submitted in writing to the director of industries, trade and commerce within one month of its publication in the Official Gazette Panaji: State govt has approved the demarcation of 1 lakh sqm at Ambaulim, Quepem, as an Investment Promotion Area (IPA) for an eco-tourism…
Panaji: The Bombay high court has directed that the first wife of a deceased govt employee and his child begotten from his second wife be entitled to 50 per cent each of his family pension. The HC directed that pension under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 be paid in proportion of 50 per…
Residents said families would be exposed to noise, dust and air pollution Margao/Canacona: Residents of Chinchinim have renewed their demand for govt to reconsider the highway alignment for the six-laning of NH-66, insisting that the bypass alignment proposed by the villagers be adopted instead of the elevated corridor currently earmarked for the Dandeavaddo stretch.The residents…
Keri: Inside a sacred forest near the Kudne river lie the remnants of the 16th-century temples of Sateri, Ravalnath and Kshetrapal in Virdi, Sanquelim. Virdi is home to temples of Sateri, Mahadev, Ravalnath, Mahalaxmi and other deities. When the Portuguese initiated religious persecution in Tiswadi and areas of Old Conquest, many villagers migrated and took…
Panaji: The regulation of construction in the buffer zone of centrally-protected monuments in the state of Goa is in “jeopardy”, the Bombay high court observed, while giving the National Monuments Authority one last opportunity to respond to a PIL pertaining to unauthorised constructions in and around protected monuments. If no affidavit is filed, the high…
Panaji: The Bombay high court has dismissed a review plea filed by Goa Foundation against its May 7 order on Goa’s mining dump policy.The policy allows iron ore from mining dumps to be returned to former leaseholders without auction.In its May 7 order, the high court had dismissed Goa Foundation’s PIL challenging the policy. The…
Panaji: The Bombay high court has dismissed a review plea filed by Goa Foundation against its May 7 order on Goa’s mining dump policy.The policy allows iron ore from mining dumps to be returned to former leaseholders without auction.In its May 7 order, the high court had dismissed Goa Foundation’s PIL challenging the policy. The…
Years of encroachments, inadequate infrastructure and neglected safety SOPs have created catastrophic conditions at the twin municipal markets Margao: The twin municipal markets of Margao — the New Municipal Market and Gandhi Market — house more than a thousand traders packed into every available inch of space. Their inventory spans cosmetics and chemicals, foam and…
Margao: Twenty-five years ago, a group of Konkani language activists sat down to solve a problem that had quietly troubled them for years — an entire generation educated in English, Marathi and Portuguese, yet unable to find its voice in its own mother tongue. What emerged from those brainstorming sessions was a storytelling competition for…
