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Mar 03, 2021 12:29 PM IST The 47-year-old politician is a trained medical doctor and comes under the category of health professionals.
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Feb 08, 2021 02:16 PM IST The airline is celebrating Goa carnival at five airports — Goa, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad — between February 7 to February 16.
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Jan 26, 2021 12:15 PM IST "The Indian Constitution has enshrined that we should respect different opinions. It is our solemn duty to work for the unity of the country," the chief minister said.
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Jan 20, 2021 12:58 PM IST The vaccination process began in the state last Saturday at seven centres, including two private hospitals.
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Jan 18, 2021 02:21 PM IST Bowing to public pressure, the Goa government last week announced that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus, which was proposed to set up at Shel-Melaulim village in Sattari taluka of North Goa district, will be shifted to another part of the coastal state.
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Dec 30, 2020 06:03 PM IST At a time when Goa is struggling to fight use of drugs, this move will further inject narcotics in the social system of the state, Amarnath Panjikar said.
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Dec 18, 2020 09:34 AM IST Goa is facing a shortage of beef due to drop in supplies from adjoining Karnataka in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year when the demand goes up.
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Nov 30, 2020 02:36 PM IST The people of Goa have always been allergic to any project that so much as hints at damaging the tourist hotspot’s environment. Be it the Konkan Railway more than a quarter century ago or the Regional Plan over a decade ago, they have organised to force a course correction or stop such projects. Now, three development projects cleared by the Union Environment Ministry have Goa’s youth spontaneously rising up in protest against transport of coal despite assurances by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant of the BJP that coal handling will eventually end.
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Nov 29, 2020 04:48 PM IST Talking to PTI, Goa Airport's Director Gagan Malik said the number of domestic flights are also increasing amid the unlock process, even as scheduled and chartered international travel continues to remain suspended.
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Nov 23, 2020 08:25 PM IST Under the new guidelines, airline travellers to Mumbai and other districts of Maharashtra from Delhi, Rajasthan, Goa and Gujarat
will now have to compulsorily undergo RT PCR test before boarding flights.
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Nov 23, 2020 05:43 PM IST All passengers flying to Mumbai from Delhi, Rajasthan, Goa and Gujarat, will now have to compulsorily undergo RT PCR test before boarding flights.
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Nov 19, 2020 07:07 PM IST The state government had imposed a moratorium on hiring in various government departments in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nov 07, 2020 12:54 PM IST The move comes in the wake of criticism being faced by the BJP government in the state after it gave its nod to organise the festival amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Oct 28, 2020 08:14 PM IST A controversy has erupted after residents of Nerul in North Goa uploaded videos showing the waste, allegedly generated by the crew of an upcoming Deepika Padukone-starrer film, dumped in their village after the shooting got over last week.
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Oct 28, 2020 03:03 PM IST The casinos will have to operate at 50 percent of their capacity and follow all the standard operating procedures laid down by the state Home department, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said.
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Oct 17, 2020 09:29 AM IST The last few months have seen a burst of new craft gins—Terai, Samsara, Jin Jiji, Pumori, Tickle, and GinGin—and most of them are distilled in Goa.
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Oct 03, 2020 03:50 PM IST The state government has not yet decided on the reopening of the casino industry and is discussing reopening of schools with all stakeholders.
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Oct 01, 2020 05:43 PM IST A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel directed the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) to expedite the matter.
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Sep 02, 2020 11:04 AM IST Goa chief Minister Pramod Sawant took to Twitter to announce he was COVID-19 positive.
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Sep 01, 2020 09:14 AM IST Goa reported 16,553 COVID-19 cases as of August 30. This figure includes a death toll of 178, 3,646 active cases and 12,729 lakh patients who had recovered.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:01 PM IST The new rules require all passengers landing in Goa to go for 14-day home or 14 days of paid institutional quarantine.
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Aug 17, 2020 11:00 AM IST Football is our state game and through it, we will be pushing for tourism, said Goa Sports Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar.
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Jul 24, 2020 06:36 PM IST The top court had on June 16 agreed to hear the plea filed by Girish Chodankar, President of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee, and issued notice on it.