Panaji

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh opens account on Koo

Goa Archbishop gets invite for RSS event

2:45 pm February 7, 2020

Panaji: The RSS has invited Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Rev Filipe Neri Ferrao, to a lecture and interaction with intellectuals on the Sangh’s concept of India to be held near here. RSS general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi will address a gathering on February 8 at Dona Paula near Panaji, Goa RSS chief Laxman Behre […]

Goa teen composes Konkani song on Mahadayi issue

3:57 pm January 14, 2020

Panaji: With the Mahadayi river issue stirring politics of Goa, a 16-year-old budding rapper has composed a song in Konkani in a bid to attract youths of the coastal state to the cause. Goa-based Kabir Naik has shot a song in the Mahadayi river basin in Sattari taluka of North Goa which is trending on […]

Tigress captured from defunct rubber factory in UP

Declare Goa sanctuaries as ‘tiger reserve’: Activists

4:23 pm January 9, 2020

Panaji: Activists and politicians from Goa have demanded that certain areas in wildlife sanctuaries of the state be notified as ‘tiger reserve’. The Goa government should follow up its proposal sent to the Centre in 2017 to notify certain areas of the coastal state as a tiger reserve, they say. The demand has come following […]

Efforts on to evacuate 2,000 foreign tourists from Goa

Must have done something wrong: Goa minister on tourism decline

10:23 pm January 3, 2020

Panaji: Goa Port Minister Michael Lobo on Friday claimed “we must have done something wrong” for foreign tourists to give the coastal state a miss this year. Lobo, MLA from Calangute, said the state government must take quick steps to revive tourism. “We must have done something wrong for tourists to stop coming to Goa. […]

Pak-born man’s visit to Goa stalled by Home ministry

6:28 pm January 2, 2020

Panaji: The visit of a Karachi-born Australian national, who has roots in Goa, has been stalled, pending security clearance from the Union Home Ministry, the State Commission for NRI Affairs said on Thursday. Pakistan-born Marco Monteiro (21) is one of the eight students who are slated to attend the 12th ‘Know Goa Program’ organised by […]