Despite raising the entry fee of the casinos from Rs 200 to Rs 2,000 the revenue collection has gone up considerably in the current financial year.
The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat has said that despite raising the entry fee of the casinos from Rs 200 to Rs 2,000 the revenue collection from the same has [...]
Chief prosecutor is replaced in proceedings against Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho
Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was found dead on Anjuna beach in Goa, India.
The trial of two men accused of killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa was adjourned before it started today after it emerged that the chief prosecutor had been replaced. Samson [...]
A traffic constable has been suspended by the Goa police after he was caught on hidden camera for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 300. ”Constable Sagar Salgaoncar was suspended yesterday after a local TV channel aired the footage which showed him accepting money without issuing challan,” Superintendent of Police Arvind Gauns said.
Salgaoncar was suspended after a [...]
A Parliamentary Committee has asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to expeditiously get the land transferred for the expansion of Dabolim airport in Goa. The Committee on Petitions was hearing Goan MP Sardinha Francisco’s request on expansion and renovation of the airport. It said it was “constrained” to know that the ownership dispute between Goa and Navy [...]
As part of the ongoing series of music revival and an attempt to raise funds for the museum, on the 20th of March, GOA CHITRA presents for the first time in Goa, a trilogy of jazz, dance and visual display called “COME TO YOUR SENSES”. Experience a palette of colourful visuals as Viktor Hugo screens [...]
Goa comes under the Western Ghats region, a unique and fragile ecosystem along the west coast of India that has been under immense pressure in recent years from the unsustainable development. This 1600 km long mountainous stretch forms the entrance to the annual monsoon to the country, offers the best of sea-beaches in this part [...]
A dying crocodile was rescued from a river at Kundaim but forest officials feared the reptile could die of consumption of plastic waste in the river. Range forest officer Amar Heblekar told reporters the crocodile was rescued from the picturesque Cumbharjua river, which is famed for crocodiles and hosts several crocodile safari trips for tourists for [...]
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest informed Mr Shantaram Naik, during question hour, in the Rajya Sabha,today, in response to his supplementary, through which, Mr Naik sought to know whether in view of the Karnataka Government declaring Bhimgad as a wildlife sanctuary which is not very far away from the project, whether the [...]
The Argentinean hockey players tucked away their sticks and flew down to Goa from New Delhi after finishing seventh in the World Cup. The South Americans arrived in the state on Monday afternoon to soak up the sun here. Pablo Lombi, coach of the side, said the team was on a holiday. ”It’s our first trip [...]
A Shiv Sena rebel group today demanded that Goa state President Upendra Gaonkar be ousted from the post accusing him of being involved in financial irregularities. The rebel faction led by Panaji unit chief Shrikrishna Veluskar alleged that Gaonkar was involved in financial irregularities and has been responsible for crumbling the organisation in the state.
Gaonkar, however, [...]
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