Policy seeks to minimise the environmental impact of improper UCO disposal Panaji: State govt on Friday notified a policy framework for the management of used cooking oil (UCO), promoting its reuse as biodiesel while preventing it from re-entering the food chain. The policy aims to promote sustainable practices in handling waste cooking oil and reduce…
Margao: State Congress president Girish Chodankar on Friday strongly condemned what he termed an act of caste discrimination against AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, after a “purification ritual” was allegedly conducted at a venue in Uttarakhand following Kharge’s visit.Chodankar termed the act deeply objectionable and said it exposed the persistence of casteist attitudes at a time…
Any vessel wanting to ply outside its permitted zone, or move out of Goa’s inland water limits entirely, now explicitly needs case-by-case permission from the captain of ports Panaji: The captain of ports has notified new operational zones for inland vessels, demarcating Goa’s waters into three categories based on wave height and fixing different limits…
Panaji: Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) is incurring an additional Rs 70 lakh per month in fuel expenditure following an increase of Rs 11 per litre in diesel prices amid geopolitical tensions in West Asia, said chairman, Ulhas Tuyekar. He was speaking at the launch of the newly procured 53-seater Tata semi-luxury buses into its fleet…
Margao: Sanguem police have booked two GFP functionaries, among others, for allegedly confronting police personnel inside the Sanguem police station, after one of them, Meshu D’Costa, was summoned in connection with a complaint over the latching of the local PWD office. D’Costa is a member of GFP’s political affairs committee and also of the Sanguem…
Panaji: The town and country planning department has rewritten the land use and building regulations by eliminating the separate category of “uses permitted with certain restrictions” and moving those conditions into the specific negative list. At the same time, it has expressly declared that uses not specifically prohibited will be permitted, potentially giving greater certainty…
Panaji: Ten 53-seater semi-luxury buses were inducted into the Kadamba Transport Corporation Ltd (KTC) fleet on Friday. Chief minister Pramod Sawant, transport minister Mauvin Godinho and KTC chairperson Ulhas Tuyekar flagged off the new buses at the Panaji bus terminus.Private bus operators needed to become part of Goa’s public transport system, Sawant said at the…
Panaji: The Bombay HC has issued notices to Goa govt, the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA), and the Calangute panchayat in a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging destruction of large tracts of beach vegetation and cutting of trees on govt land under the tourism department’s custody at Tivai Waddo, Calangute. The matter will be…
Panaji: State govt has formulated a standard operating procedure (SOP) for pre-authentication of personal, commercial and educational documents intended for use abroad before their submission for apostille or attestation by the Ministry of external affairs (MEA), Govt of India.Chief secretary V Candavelou said the MEA, which has administrative jurisdiction over the matter, has authorised the…
Central and state financial assistance will be available only if domestically manufactured solar panels using domestically manufactured solar cells are used Panaji: State govt on Friday notified the Grid-Connected Rooftop Solar Promotion Scheme for all the residential sectors, group housing societies (GHS), resident welfare association (RWA), educational Institutions, industrial, commercial establishments and NGOs among others…
