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 yea
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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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Tuesday - Dec 26, 2023
Panjim: The Goa police have arrested two men for allegedly seeking sexual favours from a woman and her 24-year-old daughter and molesting them on several occasions at a village near Mapusa town, around 10 km from here, an official said on Tuesday. The two accused, identified as
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Tuesday - Dec 26, 2023
Siolim: Come Christmas, and revellers make a beeline to the residence of Cresy Fernandes in Sodiem-Siolim, to order her famous, melt-in-the-mouth dodol. If one visits Cresy’s home around Christmas time, you’ll find it abuzz with activity, with Cresy working day and night, whipping up sweets and Goan festive staples to cater to all those who place their orders well in time
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Tuesday - Dec 26, 2023
Panjim: The supply of raw water from Tillari to Goa has been delayed further, creating a drinking water crisis of sorts in Porvorim and Saligao constituency areas. Since the raw water from Tillari has been stopped to carry out canal repair works, the 15MLD plant in Porvorim has been shut down. Now, PWD officials said that the water treatment plant at Porvorim cannot
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