Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Friday urged people to adopt agri-entrepreneurship to grow, buy and sell local produce and promote Goan crops worldwide. Speaking at the launch of the Swayampurna Vocal for Local initiative at Old Goa, he asked farmers to treat agriculture as an industry and integrate allied activities to raise incomes beyond…
CM Pramod Sawant with the vendor Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Friday lost his cool with Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) managing director Rohan Khaskar after learning that an elderly woman’s trade licence at the KTC Panaji bus terminus was still pending despite her repeated visits to the head office.Sawant directed Khaskar to renew the…
Margao: Snake bite cases and consequent deaths must now be reported to health authorities, after the Directorate of Health Services notified the condition under Section 57 of the Goa Public Health Act, 1985. The order which comes into force with immediate effect, has brought snake bite cases within Part II of Chapter VII of the…
Panaji: Seven panchayats–Shiroda, Revora, Nerul, Azossim–Mandur, Borim, Sarzora, and Dharbandora–will be honoured on Independence Day for meeting the goals of the TB-Free India campaign.Of these, Shiroda earned gold status, while the others secured silver status under the initiative.The TB-Free Panchayat initiative, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aimed to speed up the elimination of tuberculosis…
Margao: With dengue cases on the rise across South Goa, collector Egna Cleetus on Friday directed sub divisional magistrates (SDMs) to coordinate with the local bodies and primary health centres (PHCs) to identify dengue-prone areas and step up preventive measures to bring down the incidence of the diseaseCleetus chaired a review meeting on the dengue…
Kamat praised South Goa police for swift removal of seized vehicles Margao: In the wake of a dengue scare that saw two policemen test positive for the vector-borne disease, the South Goa police cleared out a pile of seized vehicles and discarded items lying around the district police headquarters here within a single day, prompting…
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…
