Mukund Korgaonkar Round Forester releasing a turtle into the sea after it lost one of its limbs when it was trapped in a net. The turtle was rescued and treated earlier by Korgaonkar, Amar Heblekar Range Forest Officer and Rudyard D’Silva Dy. Range Forest Officer, at Sinquerim
Pic by Rozario Estibeiro
-Herald, Goa Daily
April 13, 2008 – 10:17 pm
The vital organs from body of Scarlett Eden Keeling, whose body was flown to UK, were found missing during the third autopsy, the lawyer representing Fiona Mackeown confirmed.
“Fiona is disturbed about this when she came to know,” Vikram Varma, Scarlett’s mother, Fiona Mackeown’s lawyer told media.
The Coroner court in Devonshire, UK during the second level […]
April 11, 2008 – 10:38 pm
The Goa government on Wednesday placed before a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court in Goa a policy pertaining to allotment of shacks, deck beds and beach umbrellas for 2007-2008 in its coastal tourism sector.
As per the policy, no illegal acts will be permitted in the allotted shacks (seasonal eateries set up on beaches). […]
Forty-five minutes,” said the driver, answering my query on the distance from the airport to Varca beach in his inimitable Goan style. Describing distances in terms of time taken is one Goan habit I got used to during my short trip there last year! I was there for the Goa Fest, the annual advertising festival […]
March 29, 2008 – 10:32 pm
Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhary on Saturday said that Goa remains to be safe destination for tourists.
“Goa has built up a reputation over the years and it needs to live up to that,” she said adding the coastal state is safe.
Chowdhary, who is in Goa to participate in a private function interacted with […]
Goa government will write to the Union Home and External Affairs ministries asking them not to re-issue visa to Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British girl, Scarlett Eden Keeling, for her anti-state campaign and her shoddy background.
“We are writing to the Home and External Affairs ministry not to issue her visa again to come to […]
The Bogmalo Beach is one of the most popular beaches in the Beach Capital of India Goa. The swaying coconut palms and the soft sand add to the holiday mood on the shore of the Arabian Sea. Take a plunge into swimming the most relaxing water activity that can be pursued at the Bogmalo […]
In the wake of the recent murder, subsequent arrests and reports of a thriving drug mafia in Goa, here’s how to return home alive (and without getting conned) from the party paradise.
Party Paradise or Druggie Haven?
Even viewed from the window of the plane, Goa begins to work its balm. The tiny state lolls on India’s […]
Police in Goa came under pressure today to investigate whether a third Indian man, believed to have links to Bollywood and to a powerful local politician, was also involved in the rape and murder of Scarlett Keeling.
In another twist, Fiona MacKeown, Scarlett’s mother, also confirmed that she had spent a year in prison for stabbing […]
October 19, 2007 – 4:15 pm
Experts of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), have expressed shock over the depleting of Goa beaches
They attribute it to gross violation of coastal regulation zone norms and have proposed prompt preventive measures.
The tidal waves, the report said, are lashing the shoreline in Puri and advancing towards the land because of destruction of natural sand […]