Thursday - Dec 29, 2022
Panjim: Following complaints that religious conversions were made using coercion and fraud in the premises of Five Pillar Church in Sodiem at Siolim, the North Goa district collector has forbidden pastor Domnic D’Souza and Joan D’Souza from carrying out “religious activities”. North Goa district collector Sanjeev Dessai took the step on Wednesday in accordance with
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Tuesday - Dec 27, 2022
Panjim: The Panjim women police have arrested Chandrashekar Lamani (35), driver of a tourist vehicle, for allegedly raping a student (major in age) of an educational institute located in South Goa while she was sleeping on the rear seat of the vehicle near a hotel at Patto in Panjim. Accused Lamani
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Tuesday - Dec 27, 2022
Panjim: North Goa collector Mamu Hage on Monday issued an order prohibiting the movement of heavy vehicles from the Banastarim bridge to Mercês circle between 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. until January 5, 2023. The decision was made as a result of the regular traffic jams caused by heavy trucks entering the city during
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Friday - Dec 23, 2022
Panjim: Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today sought the intervention of the Goa Governor to the illegal manner in which Prof. M .K. Janarthanam, a retired Professor of Goa University has been appointed as Chairman of the newly established Goa State Research Foundation
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Thursday - Dec 22, 2022
Panjim: The Goa government has completed the first phase of auction of mining blocks with four companies winning bids for the extraction of ore from different mineral rich stretches of the coastal state, an official said on Thursday. The state Directorate of Mines and Geology (DMG) had conducted the e-auctioning process which will pave way for the resumption of the state's
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Friday - Dec 16, 2022
Panjim: Goa’s Director General of Police Jaspal Singh has directed the Special Investigation Team at the Crime Branch to probe the complaint against Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar of having grabbed land admeasuring 1,48,800.00 sq. mtrs situated at Village Dhargal in Pernem of which Mapusa based Rawloo Khalap currently residing in California is a co-owner. The FIR
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Wednesday - Dec 14, 2022
Mapusa: Cracking down on illegal sand mining, a team led by Bardez mamlatdar Dasharath Gawas that included police men seized 08.5 cu m of illegally extracted sand from the Chapora river at Pirna and arrested two people. Gawas and assistant mines geologist Shyam Sawant, officials from captain of ports and Colvale police
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Wednesday - Dec 14, 2022
Panjim: The Goa police on Tuesday suspended four policemen attached to the Porvorim police station in connection with the attack on the lawyer Gajanan Sawant. The action came on a day when a large number of lawyers protested the alleged inaction by the Goa police in the case. They assembled outside the crime branch
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Wednesday - Dec 14, 2022
Panjim: Some well-known airlines have already started cancelling their flights from Dabolim airport and are opting to fly from Goa's New International Airport in Mopa. Despite some politicians claiming that Dabolim airport will not be closed in future, the hollowness of this claim has started showing even before the Mopa airport starts full-fledged operation. Some of the
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Sunday - Dec 11, 2022
Panjim: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had withdrawn the application filed by him to be declared as a Mundkar in Survey No. 60/8 at Cotombi in Bicholim Taluka. This has been revealed in the information obtained by Adv. Aires Rodrigues from the office of the Mamlatdar of Bicholim under the Right to Information Act
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