SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2024
Say a single employee is struggling to cope up with work load and poor internet connectivity is making the matters worse
Calangute has 50 addicts, Anjuna 65; Local panchayats say Goa needs a rehabilitation centre
The single-mother-of-three was the only married woman in the contest who began her fitness regime after the birth of her third child, when she put on excessive weight
PANJIM: The businessman who accused IPS officer Sunil Garg of bribery has questioned the Chief Secretary for not acting on the preliminary inquiry report of the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) that recommended registering a First Information Report (FIR) against the police officer.
All approvals from CM received; Aim is to generate 150 MW of solar power by 2020
England’s Brewster scores hat-trick as the Europeans get the better of Americans
Minister feels the need to look for an alternative; Says problems were dealt with leniently in the past
CANACONA: An over-speeding Maruti Swift car knocked down a two-wheeler rider on a sharp turn of National highway at Charrasta in Canacona, late on Saturday evening, causing severe injuries to the rider.
PANJIM: Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Saturday granted consent to operate to seven more mining leases. However, consent to five mining leases is pending.
VALPOI: The Sattari taluka truck owners have called for a general body meeting of North and South Goa Truck Owners Associations to explain to the members what transpired at the meeting they had with the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on fixing ore transportation rates.
Manual to have well-designed structures and functions as per local requirements
PANJIM: In a bid to salvage the tiatr and nataks (traditional folk drama) from the GST burden, Minister Vijai Sardesai has decided to compile detailed data to place a strong case before the GST Council.
PTI, MANGALURU: G Nagendra Prabhu, Associate Professor in Zoology at the University of Kerala and Dr Usha S Heranjal, Anu eye hospital, Valsad, Gujarat, have been selected for this year’s Basti Vaman Shenoy Vishwa Konkani Seva awards.
PANJIM: Speaker Pramod Sawant on Saturday assured to propose to the government to provide smart phones to persons with disability which will enable them to stay connected via the newly launched ‘Voice App’ by Disability Rights Association of Goa (DRAG).
Community leader says that restricting the burial ground to only Margao and Fatorda residents in not fair; Threatens to move National Commission for Minorities
MARGAO: Popular Front of India, Goa has called for a ‘grand conference’ on October 29 at 3 pm at Lohia Maidan, Margao as part of the ‘We also have something to say’ campaign launched nationwide to counter the negative propaganda launched against the organization.
SANGOLDA: Vasco Veterans scored a facile 4-1 win over Candolim Veterans, to enter the quarter-finals of the Monte de Guirim Platinum Jubilee Veterans Football Tournament, at Sangolda panchayat ground, on Saturday.
Scores a hat-trick to secure semi-final spot for the Young Lions
The state government has declared the process of granting 32 Goa Konkani Akademi Awards as ‘null and void’. Café speaks to a few members of the Konkani fraternity and gets to know what this means for Konkani literature
Alvinia Joanita Desouza from Calangute is a chocolatier at the pinnacle of the world’s chocolate industry: Switzerland. In Goa for a few days, Café catches up with her as she spills the beans on a couple of recipes that she believes everyone who enjoys ‘kitchen time’ can work with, this weekend
While the mining ban has hit everybody badly in the region, there are some who have opted to diversify and return to farming or other means of sustenance. Residents of Sonshi village and those from Sanvordem-Curchorem-Sanguem belt seem to have realised that the golden goose may have flown and their best way forward is to see the unfolding reality rather than look forward to the good old days. SHWETA KAMAT does a reality check and reports from ground zero
Truck owners who easily made Rs 16 lakh to Rs 18 lakh a year and around Rs 1.5 lakh a month per truck, after deducting expenses, during the boom days, have seen their business nosedive after the ban and today earn around Rs 35,000-40,000 per month. SHWETA KAMAT spoke to some truck owners who explained the economic variables of the trade
Apna Ghar continues to be in the news for the wrong reasons. While many a time inmates would create ruckus inside, break furniture, tube lights and damage window panes, grills, and doors. They would even assault the security, police and some staff at Apna Ghar. The new WCD Minister Vishwajit Rane seems to have his hands full and claims to leave no stone unturned to bring back decorum here, while the former WCD Minister Dilip Parulekar says a revamp is the need of the hour. The recommendations in the Levinson Martins report despite its submission to the then government in 2012 still await implementation in the real sense. VIBHA VERMA talks to the Parulekar and Rane to know more
There has been a 52.6 per cent drop in incidents of Maoist violence between 2010 and 2016, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of ministry of home affairs (MHA) data.
It took quite some time for economics to get out of its rational-driven positivist mode. Several economists approached economics like physics. Although economics is a human science and as such dealt with human activity directed to the managements of the oikos (home) with the nomos (rules) that were most efficient, it somehow approached humans as particles in physics whose activity might be described by a few well understood rules.
Some days ago the President of World Bank released the ‘Report on World Development, 2018’ under the title ‘Learning to Realise Education’s Promise,’ focusing on millions of children in poor countries who regularly attend school but learn little to nothing at all, particularly in India’s rural areas.
As reported in the media, the Director of Panchayats through its circular had instructed the village panchayats, municipalities to constitute or reconstitute the biodiversity management committees in the gram sabhas held on October 2.
Seriously, I have never been a great fan of politics and politicians and consciously endeavour to keep myself beyond the umbra of their influence! Possibly because more often than not they promise the shining stars and shimmering moon, but deliver sheer emptiness, at least to the middle class.
