Goa sets up panel against fake recruitment agents
Panaji: The Goa government has formed a high level committee to protect aspirants seeking jobs abroad from being duped by fake agents. The committee will be headed by Goa's Commissioner for...
View ArticleIron ore export eating away resources: Justice Shah
Panaji: Rampant extraction of iron ore for export was steadily eating away India's national wealth, retired Supreme Court judge M.B. Shah, who heads a commission probing illegal mining in several...
View ArticleBJP, Congress in nexus over illegal mining: Goa activists
Panaji: Citing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) inability to take on the Congress-led ruling coalition on the issue of illegal mining in Goa, anti-mining activists say both parties are part of a...
View ArticleIndian Navy looking for latest choppers
Panaji: The Indian Navy is actively looking out for military helicopters which can succeed its present fleet of Seaking and Kamov helicopters, a senior naval officer said Saturday. Speaking to...
View ArticleGoa ore exporters do not want CBI to probe illegal mining
Panaji: Ore exporters in Goa do not want a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into Goa's mega mining scam, even as their spokesperson admitted that some exporters could be exporting ore...
View ArticleGoa mining scam: PAC blames officials, politicians nexus
Panaji: Goa's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) looking into the Rs.3,500 crore illegal mining industry is believed to have zeroed in on the nexus between politicians, bureaucrats, police and forest...
View ArticlePAC report on Goa mining scam not in current session
Panaji: An explosive Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report unravelling a Rs.3,500 crore mining scam in Goa will not be tabled in the legislative assembly Friday, the second and last day of the monsoon...
View ArticleMining scam rocks Goa politics
Panaji: Politics over the illegal mining scam in Goa took a dramatic turn when in a late development Friday, Goa assembly Speaker Pratapsing Rane replaced Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar as...
View ArticleGoa mining lobby flexes muscle, blocks river traffic
Panaji: Nearly 50 mining barges virtually blockaded the Mandovi river, off Panaji, Wednesday to protest any impending action against the mining industry."Our livelihood is based on the mining industry....
View ArticleLGBT tourism: Ramdev's outfit, church question Goa's move
Panaji: Hindu rightwing groups, Baba Ramdev's outfit and the Catholic church are angry with the Goa government and tourism industry's plan to put the state on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
View ArticleMore opposition to Goa LGBT tourism, complaint filed
Panaji: After objections from Hindu rightwing groups, Baba Ramdev's outfit and the Catholic church, now a criminal complaint has been filed against the organisers of an event on lesbian, gay, bisexual...
View ArticleFocus on social media to get more tourists'
Panaji: The 'Incredible India' campaign, a branding exercise by the tourism ministry to create a distinctive identity for the country, must be "reinvented", a tourism industry stakeholder said...
View ArticleArabic pamphlet in Britain-Goa flight triggers alarm
Panaji: A pamphlet published in Arabic found Tuesday in a chartered plane which flew from Manchester airport in Britain to Goa has triggered a security alarm here. The alert comes less than two weeks...
View ArticleTime to unveil our own Victoria's Secret: Indian designers
Panaji: Call it swimwear, beachwear or resort wear -- the market for this segment has so far been neglected in the country but designers feel the demands of travel enthusiasts and a platform like the...
View ArticleHike in iron ore export duty irks Goa mining industry
Panaji: A recent decision of the union finance ministry to hike export duty on iron ore from 20 percent to 30 percent has irked trade organisations in Goa.The Goa Mineral Ore Exporters' Association...
View ArticleWhy didn't Advani bring back black money, asks Sonia
Panaji: Questioning Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani's credentials as an anti-corruption crusader, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Saturday asked why he had taken no steps to bring back black...
View ArticleCongress claim whittles, BJP coy over seats
Panaji: After consistently claiming that the Congress-NCP alliance would win 25 seats in the Goa assembly, Congress leader Francisco Sardinha has scaled down the assessment to "21 to 23" seats of the...
View ArticleSchoolgirl, two others killed in bus accident
Panaji: A school bus ferrying children home collided with a truck, killing a 12-year-old girl, and two others Monday afternoon in Goa, police said.The accident took place as the bus, commissioned under...
View ArticleBJP leads, Congress trails in Goa
Panaji: The ruling Congress was trailing in Goa with victories in just two seats as opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had won seven seats after three hours of counting Tuesday.The...
View ArticleOver 100 tombstones vandalised in Goa
Panaji: Over 100 tombstones in Muslim and Christian graveyards have been vandalised in a mining town in Goa, police said Monday. The incidents took place in Curchorem, a mining town 50 km from here....
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