Panaji: The Goa Green Brigade has urged the Panaji range forest office to stop the “clandestine butchering” of heritage roadside trees and adopt a scientific conservation policy, while warning of legal action if scheduled tree work continues.Activists have also sought a halt to the Corporation of the City of Panaji’s plan to trim or fell…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Monday directed the interim stay on bringing the new casino vessel into the Mandovi river will continue till the next hearing in Aug.The HC granted the petitioner, Enough is Enough, two weeks to file a rejoinder to the affidavit filed by the casino company. The court adjourned the hearing…
Panaji: Manisha Usgaonkar, who was nominated as Congress candidate for the Valpoi constituency in the 2022 assembly elections, dropped a bombshell on Monday when she claimed that Congress president Girish Chodankar demanded Rs 10 lakh from her before the elections.Speaking to a local news channel, Usgaonkar said that Chodankar invited her to his home around…
Panaji: Within a day of being appointed head of the Congress party’s minority department, Nazir Khan took charge in the presence of state president Girish Chodankar.On Sunday, Congress suspended its state minority department chairman, Wasim Khan, for indiscipline and anti-party activities. Wasim protested during Venugopal’s visit, which the BJP’s social media team latched onto to…
The chief minister said that around 3,500 ‘warkaris’ are registered with state govt at present, but the actual number of those who make the journey to Pandharpur could be around 5,000 Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said that state govt has already identified a land two to three kilometers from the temple at…
Panaji: It will now be mandatory for hotels, restaurants, and industries to provide their used cooking oils for its conversion into biofuel through the Goa Energy Development Agency (GEDA). An agency has already been authorised by state to carry out collection of the used cooking oil.A digital platform has been created by the GEDA, and…
The GSPCB said the overall trend shows a reduction in very high faecal coliform pollution levels over the monitoring period Panaji: Water samples collected by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) from five locations along the Mandovi in Panaji have shown faecal coliform levels above the permitted limit every month since 2022. Reviewing the…
Panaji: Until a few years ago, Rebekah Lobo was a college student making a three-hour commute involving five bus changes each way from her home in Rivona to Don Bosco College in Panaji. That ordeal inspired her and her now-techie husband to develop the Mhaje App, a digital platform for Goa’s motorcycle taxi pilots, launched…
Panaji: Moderate to heavy rainfall lashed parts of Goa on Sunday, with Sanquelim emerging as the wettest location in the state, recording 91.6mm of rainfall, followed closely by Valpoi at 85mm. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy showers accompanied by gusty winds over the next four days.Despite the recent spells, the cumulative southwest…
Valpoi: Traffic on the Chorla Ghat road was disrupted for over an hour on Sunday morning after a large jungle tree fell across the road near Anjunem Dam at Keri in Sattari, blocking vehicular movement.The tree crashed onto the roadway at around 9.06am, leaving vehicles stranded on both sides and inconveniencing commuters travelling through the…
