SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024
NEW DELHI, APRIL 8 Forty-eight hours after one of the worst attacks against Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh, the Home Ministry, it is learnt, will approach the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) soon with a new anti-Naxal strategy.
PANJIM, APRIL 8 Chief Minister Digambar Kamat today reiterated his government stand viz-a-viz four laning of the NH4A, saying the State will try it best to minimize the demolition of structures along the highway.
PANJIM, APRIL 8 After over 16 months of submitting the proposal to the government, the Goa Police have finally begun the process of setting up its own Anti-Terrorist Squad. In wake of reports of the State consistently figuring in the hit list of terror organizations, the Goa Police had made a proposal to the government to set up its own ATS in November 2008.
PANJIM, APRIL 8 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today expressed its reservation about the four-laning of the Mollem to Panjim highway (NH4A) and opposed it alleging that the alignment has been selectively done. Around 1,000 structures will be axed if the current widening of NH-4A is carried out as per the alignment already planned.
CALANGUTE, APRIL 8\r\nCandolim Sports Club prevailed over Sao Minguel Taleigao 3-1 to move into the semi-finals of Calangute Panchayat Cup soccer tournament, organised by Calangute Association, at Poriat ground, Calangute, on Thursday.
CALANGUTE, APRIL 8 Hosts Saligao Sporting Club scored a hard fought solitary goal win over Sinquerim Sports Club to move into the quarter-finals of VM Salgaocar Trophy inter-village football tournament, at Sporting ground, Saligao on Thursday.
MARGAO, APRIL 8 Karnataka Sports Association XI, Mumbai drubbed Customs and Central Excise 4-0 to storm into the semi-finals of All-India Invitational Veterans football tournament, organised by Veterans of Salcete, at Curtorim ground, on Thursday. Karnataka led 1-0 at the breather.
CALANGUTE, APRIL 8 Anjuna Police on Thursday arrested two Nigerian nationals on charges of possessing illegal drugs worth Rs 20,000 and overstaying in India in two separate incidents at Anjuna.
PANJIM, April 8 Thousands of people took to the streets today in protest against the price rise and the anti-people policies of the central and the state government. The protest led by the Goa state council of Communist Party of India (CPI) was to support the call given by the left parties against anti-people and anti-working class policies vigorously pursued by the Congress government both at state and central level.
COLLEM (HC): A 57-year-old woman from Udalse-Male, Sancorda, committed suicide by jumping into Ragada River at Sancorda late Wednesday evening. According to Collem Police PI Manoj Mardolkar, Nalini Sadanand Jog was mentally unsound for the last five years.
MARGAO, APRIL 8 The stinking and highly polluted Colva creek is back in the news, again for the wrong reason. Police rushed to Colva beach on Thursday evening after a JCB machine was found busy involved in digging a huge trench on the shore.
PANJIM, APRIL 8 Education Minister Babush Monserrate, his wife Jennifer, ex-mayor Tony Rodrigues were among those who appeared in the court of JMFC here in connection with the violent attack on Panjim Police Station in February 2008.
MARCEL (HC): A motorcycle has been reported missing from Khadpabandh-Ponda on Wednesday. In a police complaint filed with Ponda Police, one Amey Vaidya (26) from Amrai Colony, Ambegal-Ponda, has stated that on April 7, he had parked the motorcycle near Singbal building, Khadpabandh-Ponda, where he runs a dental lab.
MARCEL (HC): A resident from Usgao has been accused of illegally carrying out blasts using gelatins to extract rubble in the property of Usgao Communidade. According to Ponda Police, former Curti ZP member and Usgao Communidade member Tulsidas Prabhu has filed a police complaint against the accused for
MARCEL (HC): JMFC Ponda has directed Ponda Police to reinvestigate into the complaint filed by one Mahesh Nayak against a road transport officer. It may be recalled that Jai Damodar Association, Margao, President Mahesh Nayak on December 3, 2008, had filed a police complaint against a RTO officer that during his tenure at the RTA office,
MARGAO, APRIL 8 In one of the latest medical advancements, senior consultant, Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement surgeon, Dr Amey Velingker has performed the first surgery in Goa with Provision Zero-G advance Helmet at Apollo Victor Hospitals.
PANJIM, April 8 In another development, an officer who was trying to streamline the KTC and take measures to help the corporation come out of the red, has been shunted. The order transferring Amarsen Rane out of the KTC where he was the Managing Director was issued today evening.
PANJIM, April 8 The Kadamba Transport Corporation Limited (KTCL) will sign an agreement with its labour union on implementation of sixth pay commission on or before April 19, an union leader said.
PANJIM, April 8 The members of Panorama Harvests Co-operative Collective Farming Society Ltd, Anjuna, which has been in the news for sometime now, have asserted that there is nothing illegal in what they have been doing on atop a hill in Anjuna and have expressed concern over the "misinformation instigated by some",
MARGAO, APRIL 8 The Hindu Jangjagran Samiti has called upon the government to come out with a clear-cut policy on religious structures in public places by taking the concerned people into confidence. At a meeting held in the city here on
MARGAO, APRIL 8 Burglars struck again in the city here last night, decamping gold ornaments, besides cash from an Exide battery shop worth nearly Rs 1.60 lakh Margao police said the miscreants effected entry by bending the shutter of the Escorts Enterprises with the help of a crow bar.
PANJIM, April 8 The state forest department will file chargesheet in the tiger killing case at Keri, next week. The chargesheet comes almost a year after tiger was shot dead. Chief conservator of forest Dr Shashi Kumar confirming the filing of chargesheet refused to divulge much detail.
MARGAO, APRIL 8 Believe it or not, perhaps the first time in the history of Margao Municipal Council, a stenographer has accepted the nomination papers for elections to the post of vice-Chairperson for want of the Chief Officer.
MARGAO, APRIL 8 Margao Municipal Councilor Raju Naik is all set to become the new Vice-Chairperson of the Margao Civic body. Decks were cleared for Raju to assume charge as the MMC vice-Chairperson on Thursday after the Civic body received his lone nomination papers for the vacant post.
SANGUEM, APRIL 8 Sanguem police on Thursday morning arrested four persons from Gudi-Paroda, after they allegedly made a futile attempt to kidnap a girl, who was residing in a rented room at Funtemoll-Uguem, Sanguem.
PANJIM, APRIL 8 Louis Berger Consultants India Ltd have been finalized as the consultant for Goa's ambitious sea link project, which will connect the capital city to the port town of Vasco.
NEW DELHI, APRIL 8 The Delhi High Court has sent notices to 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Ministry Of Human Resource Development to clarify their process of selection through the annual joint entrance examination (JEE), a teacher who filed the case said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI, APRIL 8 Seeking greater involvement of States to combat shooting prices of agri commodities and ensure effective nationwide distribution of foodgrains, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set up three working groups of chief ministers.
MARGAO, APRIL 8 The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) scheme has virtually hit the cross roads in South Goa with funds allocated to the panchayat bodies remaining unutilized and the Centre rejecting the Rural Development Agency's (RDA) request for additional funds for the district.
