Panaji |Β A 34-year-old man killed his father, after attacking him with an iron rod, after blaming the latter for rejecting marriage proposals, police said on Thursday. The accused Rajesh Gaonkar has been arrested under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, Deputy Superintendent of Police in-charge of Ponda sub district Chetan Patil told reporters. […]
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Goa student returns home from war-torn Ukraine
Panaji |Β Rupal Gosavi, a Goan student caught in war-torn Ukraine, arrived at Goa’s Dabolim international airport on Tuesday. Gosavi, who was studying at the Ternopil National Medical University in Ternopil, Ukraine, had reached New Delhi earlier on Tuesday via a rescue flight from Romania. “We were contacted by the Indian Embassy in Ukraine and assured […]
Rahul, Priyanka are ‘Italian hoodlums’, says Goa Health Minister
Panaji |Β Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Wednesday termed Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi “Italian hoodlums”, urging voters in the poll-bound coastal state to disregard them. “What did Rahul Gandhi do for the state of Goa? What did Priyanka Gandhi do for the state of Goa? They are nothing but hoodlums. I call […]
BJP shuts door on Parrikar’s son, offers ‘compromise’ seat to Speaker
Panaji |Β Closing its gates on former Goa CM late Manohar Parrikar’s disgruntled son Utpal Parrikar, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday announced the candidature of Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar as the party’s candidate for the Bicholim Assembly seat. “Patnekar will not just win the Bicholim seat, he will also be a Cabinet minister in the […]
Goa reports 8 new Omicron cases, total tally 19: Health Minister
Panaji |Β Eight new Omicron cases have been detected in Goa, taking the total count of Covid cases involving the new variant to 19, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on Wednesday. He also said that out of the eight new cases, five patients are local residents of Goa with no travel history. “8 Genome Sequence Reports […]
Goa BJP MLA resigns, says party has forgotten principles
Panaji |Β Former Forest Minister and sitting BJP MLA Alina Saldanha on Thursday resigned as legislator accusing the leadership in the state of forgetting party principles. Saldanha, who submitted her resignation to Speaker of the assembly Rajesh Patnekar, is the first BJP lawmaker to resign from the state assembly, even as two Opposition MLAs have quit […]
Five sailors suspected to be Omicron cases: Goa official
Panaji |Β Five sailors, including two Russians, have been kept in quarantine as suspect Omicron cases, Goa health officials said on Monday. Dr Utkarsh Betodkar, an epidimiologist with the state Directorate of Health Services, said that the five Omicron suspects had tested positive for Covid, after they sailed to Mormugao Port Trust onboard a ship which […]
Days after denial of permission, scaled down Sunburn EDM festival to be held in Goa
Panaji |Β Two days after Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant denied permission to host the popular Sunburn electronic dance music festival, organisers of the event, Percept Live, on Friday in a statement said that a scaled down version of the festival would now be held at Vagator, a beach village in North Goa. “Percept Live would […]
Goa CM scraps popular EDM event ‘Sunburn’ this year
Panaji | Popular electronic dance music (EDM) Sunburn festival organised by Percept Live, one of the highlights of the state’s year-end tourism itinerary, will not be held this year. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that his office had rejected a file moved by the Tourism Ministry to permit the organising of the event […]
Rape accused stripped, ragged in Goa prison; probe ordered
Panaji |Β A day after a video showing three rape accused being forced to do sit-ups in the nude at the Aguada central jail in North Goa, prison authorities on Wednesday directed a probe into the incident. Speaking to reporters, Inspector General of Prisons, Goa, Venancio Furtado, said that that the central jail superintendent has been […]