Friday - Feb 23, 2024
Panjim: The Goa police on Tuesday registered a first information report (FIR) against unidentified persons for unlawful assembly and attack on state Social Welfare Minister Subhash Phal Desai after the unveiling of a statue of Shivaji Bhosle at a village in South Goa
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Friday - Feb 23, 2024
Panjim: A case has been registered against a Russian national for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl, who also belongs to his country, in North Goa district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on the intervening night of February 4-5 when the victim, who is currently on a vacation in Goa
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Friday - Feb 23, 2024
Panjim: A motorcyclist flipped over Old Mandovi Bridge and plummeted into the river when the two-wheeler he was riding was hit by a rent-a-car on Thursday evening. The victim was identified as Javed Sadekar, originally from Margao and currently residing with his wife and three minor sons at Nachinola. He was working for a casino company and was proceeding to
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Saturday - Feb 17, 2024
Panjim: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has thrown a spoke in the wheels of the INDIA front and potentially queered the pitch for the Congress in its traditional stronghold by announcing a nominee for the South Goa Lok Sabha seat. Captain Venzy Viegas, the party’s MLA from Benaulim, will contest from the parliamentary seat, which is represented by Francisco
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Saturday - Feb 17, 2024
Panjim: The Goa police on Friday arrested a physical education teacher for raping a minor girl student of a government school on multiple occasions, an official said. As per a complaint filed at the Mopa police station, accused Kalpesh Chandrakant Mahale is an employee of the Sports Authority of Goa, and he was deputed
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Saturday - Feb 17, 2024
Aldona: Mukti Nagvekar, a 30-year-old resident of Sai Nagar in Aldona, is making waves in her community with her recent venture into Goa’s struggling public transport sector- with an electric rickshaw. With two children to support, she decided to take advantage of the government’s e-Rickshaw scheme about a month ago
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Sunday - Feb 11, 2024
Ponda: Goan social activist and Lion Ularico Rodrigues slammed the local authorities at the Panchayat level for their indifference toward the discharge of polluting chemicals and effluents by a factory in Bethora (and other factories at large in the area)
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Saturday - Feb 10, 2024
Margao: The Goa chapter of the economy and environment Think Tank - Centre for Promoting Indian Economy (CPIE India), in a statement released on Thursday, likened the river Sal - often called the lifeline of Salcete - to a gutter, drain or nullah, which can no longer be called or termed as a river in most places where it flows
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Sunday - Jan 28, 2024
Panjim: North Goa Additional Sessions Judge Sharmila Patil has quashed and set aside the order of Mapusa Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) which had convicted Adv. Aires Rodrigues in connection with his alleged social media posts on the sex scandal involving the then Water Resources Minister. The then Mapusa JMFC Pooja Desai on 5th January last year had convicted Adv. Rodrigues.
Allowing the Appeal filed by Adv. Aires Rodrigues, the Additional Sessions Judge Sharmila Patil in her 19-page judgement while holding that the JMFC’s order was perverse |
Thursday - Jan 4, 2024
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar's plea against the Bombay High Court verdict upholding the State Assembly speaker's order dismissing his petition seeking disqualification of 10 party MLAs who had switched over to the BJP in 2019. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court had on
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