Thursday - Jun 27, 2024
Sanguem: The Global Centre for Human Health & Research (GCHHR) - a non-profit organization, claims it has detected micro plastics and other pollutants, including chemicals used as pesticides in ground water sources and other water bodies in Sanguem and the neighbouring villages. The GCHHR conducted several tests after obtaining water samples
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Wednesday - Jun 19, 2024
Panjim: Senior statesmen, political analysts, advocates and activists have reasserted the necessity of agitation (within the ambits of law and the constitution) to save Goa from the degradation of governance and civil liberties. Let's start with the BJP media department in-charge Premanand Mhambre, who asked
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Wednesday - Jun 19, 2024
Panjim: Senior public intellectual and former MLA, Uday Bhembre on Tuesday lamented that crores of rupees of people’s money are being spent over the last nearly two years to fight the case of the eight rebel Congress MLAs, who switched over to Bharatiya Janata Party
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Tuesday - Jun 11, 2024
Panjim: Union Minister of State Shripad Naik, who was allocated Power and New & Renewable Energy portfolio in Modi 3.0, has been a regular face in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government since he was elected as MP for the first time in 1999. After he was elected from North Goa Parliamentary constituency in 1999, Naik was inducted as Minister
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Sunday - May 19, 2024
Mumbai/Panjim: Bollywood actor Rayya Labib was attacked by stray dogs while on an early morning walk on Colva beach in South Goa. The incident happened on Friday morning at around 5.50 to 6 am. The actor, accompanied by two friends who were all visiting Goa to beat the summer heat, decided to take a stroll on the beach early in the morning to avoid other
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Friday - May 10, 2024
Panjim: Activist, social worker and film maker Reema Angel Sharma who was in the capital city Panjim recently said that she was deeply saddened and disappointed that an international tourist destination like Goa shuts down music in restaurants, pubs and beach shacks at 10 pm
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Sunday - May 5, 2024
Panjim: Goa Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ramesh Verma on Sunday said that the election machinery is totally geared up for conducting free and fair elections on 7 May 2024. Addressing a press conference, Verma said, “We have 1,725 polling stations - 863 in North Goa and 862 in South Goa district. Out of these polling stations, we have 229 model polling
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Wednesday - Apr 10, 2024
Valpoi: A local businessman has been detained after a massive blast occurred at his cashew farm in a village in North Goa district, police said on Tuesday. As per the initial investigation, gelatin (dynamite) sticks stored in one of the godowns at the private cashew farm in Ansolem village exploded at around 8 pm on Monday, they said
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Thursday - Apr 4, 2024
Margao: After five weeks of unsteady calm in the village, residents of Primeirovaddo, Velsao, had to rush to the streets once again to protest the work of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), who dumped six truckloads of mud and construction debris as part of the proposed railway double tracking works. The bone of contention here is that this dumping of mud and the
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Monday - Mar 25, 2024
Panjim: One of the most influential business families of Goa, the Dempos, have entered the electoral fray with Communal BJP on Sunday giving the South Goa ticket to group director and chairman Shrinivas Dempo’s wife Pallavi. This is the first time in Goa’s electoral history that Communal BJP has picked a woman candidate for Lok Sabha polls. Dempos’ foray into the
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