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Ban the sale of Goa Gutkha in Goa demands NGO
2008-02-27 22:11:00 A non-governmental organization (NGO) demands the Goa Government to ban the sale of Goa Gutkha in the State and initiate action against its Maharashtra-based manufacturer.Submitted a memorandum in this regard to Chief Secretary J P Singh at the Porvorim Secretariat Complex. Mr Singh assured the delegation of appropriate action. The delegation also presented few samples of ... More About: Demands , Sale
Goa govt?s stand on cancelling SEZ remains unchange: Kamat
2008-02-27 22:02:00 “I have not received any formal communication from Board of Approval but as the things stand today our letter written to Union Commerce ministry (seeking cancellation of SEZs) stands”, Kamat told PTI after holding deliberations with anti-SEZ groups here. Amidst mounting pressure from anti-SEZ groups, Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat today said the state government’s stand ... More About: Politics , Stand , Govt
An approach to Psychological treatment
2008-02-27 21:56:00 Today people in India have begun to develop greater awareness about psychiatric problems and illnesses as against a decade ago and in turn seek assistance and treatment. Thanks to the efforts of mental health professional as well the media. But what exactly is psychiatric treatment? Vast majority of people who seek psychiatric help take drug therapy. ... More About: Treatment , Psychological
Just recovered from crash!
2008-02-26 15:00:00 Goa Blog server suffered a hard disk crash few days ago. Now, after the disaster recovery the articles published after October 20, 2007 till date will now be seen as the cold backup had data of October 20, 2007 and before. We apologise for the inconvenience to the readers. News and events from Goa will flow ... More About: Crash
HAPPENINGS?08: The most awaited grand event
2008-02-18 16:01:00 What happens when you have Goa?s best colleges battling it out for the first place at the numero uno youth festival? Add to this you have the best DJs and bands in town and 100KW of pulsating sound. Throw in the roar of college slogans, captivating performances and celebrations!!?.Its the fever of Happenings . Actually, its ... More About: Event , Articles , Grand
Sesa Goa Rises on Expectation It May Raise Ore Prices
2008-02-18 10:36:00 Sesa Goa Ltd., India’s biggest non- state iron ore exporter, rose in Mumbai trading on expectation it will raise prices for Japanese steelmakers from April 1, matching an increase won by Brazil’s Cia. Vale do Rio Doce. Asia’s three largest steelmakers led by JFE Holdings Inc. agreed to a 65 percent increase in iron ore prices ... More About: Tech , Prices
Goa govt issues showcause notice to Manyata
2008-02-18 10:34:00 After deciding to put the registration of Sanjay Dutt?s marriage in Goa on hold, the state government on Monday issued a showcause notice to Manyata. (Watch: Sanjay- Manyata marriage illegal?) Earlier on Sunday, Salcete Taluka?s senior revenue official Paresh M Fal Dessai said that, ?Manyata will be asked to withdraw a residence certificate she submitted to ... More About: Articles , Breaking News , Issues , Notice
?Vistara - 2008?Inter-college Youth Festival
2008-02-16 18:01:00 The annual youth festival ‘VISTARA 2008′ was celebrated with great enthusiasm and fun on 13th and 14th February at Panaji VISTARA which is being organised by the Goa College of Architecture is one of the biggest inter-college youth festivals in the state. The two day festival had varied challenging and interesting competitions which included Rangoli with ... More About: Articles , Inter , Youth , Festival
Goa Board for equal weightage to CET, HSSC score in merit list
2008-02-13 10:05:00 The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has forwarded a proposal to the government suggesting that the merit list for admission to various professional courses should be prepared by taking into consideration 50 per cent marks of the HSSC examination and equal marks linked to the Goa Common Entrance Test (CET). Presently, the said ... More About: Articles , Breaking News , List
Goa CM in Delhi to meet high command
2008-02-13 10:00:00 Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat rushed to New Delhi on Tuesday to seek the intervention of the Congress high command to resolve the problem of an inevitable cabinet reshuffle. Instead of consolidating his position, a peace-formula worked out by the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party high commands earlier to defuse a crisis faced by the Congress-led coalition government ... More About: Politics , Articles , Goa , Meet
The Kashmir Food Festival? kicks-off in Goa
2008-02-12 16:48:00 The Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC), in association with the India Tourism Department, is holding ‘The Kashmir Food Festival ’ in Goa. Speaking at the launch of the festival yesterday, Syed Shahnawaz, Research Officer, Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre, Srinagar, said that KTDC is working on a package with its counterpart in Goa to get the tourists ... More About: Articles , Kicks
No decision on Minister?s name to be dropped from Goa cabinetNo decision on
2008-02-12 16:41:00 The Congress leaders in Goa are yet to take a decision on the name of the minister who is to be dropped from the cabinet to accommodate an MLA from its alliance partner Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, sources said. “Nothing is finalised… we are still discussing the matter,” All India Congress Committee General Secretary B Hariprasad told ... More About: Politics , Articles , Decision , Minister
Goa: Port town comes to standstill
2008-02-12 15:20:00 Activities in the port town were brought to a standstill on Monday, after Mormugao Bachao Abhiyan (MBA) activists and thousands of demonstrators blockaded all routes leading to Mormugao Port Trust (MPT). The agitators gave vent to their fury, after accusing the MPT of failing to resolve their grievances regarding the port?s controversial expansion plans and other ... More About: Articles , Town
Dutt-Manyata court marriage in Goa awaits final signature
2008-02-11 16:32:00 The court marriage of actor Sanjay Dutt and Dilnasheen Amir Ahmad Sheikh alias Manyata will have legal validity only after their final signature on the wedding declaration, the civil marriage registration authorities said in Panaji on Monday. Dutt and Manyata had submitted declaration of their marriage to Civil Registrar’s Office on February seven in South Goa’s ... More About: Movies , Marriage , Articles , Final , Court
Olympic gold medallists 1988 ? Seoul Games, Ambassadors for Goa Tourism
2008-02-11 08:52:00 Olympic gold medallist 1988 ? Seoul Games , Rosa Mota (centre) and Comandante Jose Vicente Moura of Portugal who were declared Ambassadors for Goa Tourism , seen with Minister for Tourism, Francisco Xavier Pacheco, at Park Hyatt. Courtesy: Herald, Goa Diaily More About: Articles , Gold
Decision on name of Goa minister to be axed for MGP tomorrow
2008-02-11 08:41:00 Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat will announce the name of the minister to be dropped from the cabinet to accommodate its alliance partner’s MLA tomorrow, a top Congress leader said. “We are still discussing. The chief minister will announce the name tomorrow,” All India Congress Committee General Secretary B Hariprasad told PTI on Sunday afternoon. Hariprasad, who ... More About: Politics , Articles , Goa , Decision , Tomorrow
I-League Preview: Mahindra United ? Sporting Club de Goa
2008-02-11 08:37:00 Mahindra United hopes restore some pride in their disappointing season by finishing the league in the top half of the table when the face Sporting Club de Goa at the Cooperage Stadium, Mumbai. The Scene With chances of a top three finish diminishing Mahindra United?s aim now would be to gather as many points as they ... More About: Preview , League
India Arrests Six Suspected Terrorists Planning Mumbai Attacks in Goa
2008-02-11 08:24:00 Indian security forces arrested six suspected terrorists heading for the financial capital, Mumbai , to carry out attacks. Three alleged members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, which is fighting Indian control of Jammu and Kashmir state, were detained yesterday on a bus in Rampur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and three others held in the state ... More About: India , Articles , Planning , Arrests
Security check at Goa hotels
2008-02-09 08:55:00 The Goa government has said that hotels, guesthouses, lodges and other accommodations will have their lincences cancelled if they do not keep record of their guests. ?Whoever does not follow regulations, their licences will be cancelled,? Goa chief minister Digamber Kamat said last evening. Recently, three suspected militants who were arrested in Karnataka confessed that they were ... More About: Security , Articles , Breaking News , Hotels , Clubs
Bali-like terror plot foiled in tourist hotspot Goa
2008-02-07 14:21:00 The Goa government has revealed that terrorists were planning Bali -like terror attacks in the state. Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik has said that the terror suspects arrested recently in Karnataka had done recces of the beaches. ?They had surveyed coastal areas and many crowded areas. We were saved because they didn?t not get RDX and money on ... More About: Terror , Articles , Breaking News
Panaji: Govt Makes Screening of Newborn Babies Mandatory
2008-02-07 14:10:00 The state government has declared mandatory screening of newborn babies born in government hospitals from March 1 onwards. “To begin with, we are making screening mandatory for the babies delivered in government hospitals,” Goa chief minister Digamber Kamat told reporters after a cabinet meeting held this evening. Talking to reporters in presence of health minister Vishwajeet Rane, ... More About: Articles , Breaking News , Babies , Govt
Goa BJP demands apology over insult to tricolour at Carnival
2008-02-06 16:23:00 Insult to the Indian national flag on Brazilian Float during Carnival parade here has snowballed into a major controversy in Goa with Bharatiya Janata Party demanding apology from the state government over the issue. The Brazilian Float, participating for the first time in the parade, had the tricolour installed on it upside down. The error was later ... More About: Demands , Articles , Apology , Insult
Goa: Grounded River Princess raises ecological concerns
2008-02-06 16:19:00 A grounded ship, the River Princess is playing havoc with the Candolim-Sinquerim coast of North Goa with parts of the rusted ship being washed ashore periodically, posing a danger to swimmers apart from polluting the coastline. Goans were ecstatic in hearing the news of the government scrapping the controversial Special Economic Zones, they have not been ... More About: Articles , Concerns
Reshuffle in Cabinet Imminent - Finance Minister to be Axed?
2008-02-05 16:01:00 Reshuffle in the Goa cabinet seems to be imminent with the coordination committee of the Congress-led alliance partners deciding ‘to bring in all the partners into the government process.’ Sources close to the chief minister confirmed that Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) legislator Ramkrishna Dhavalikar would be given cabinet berth while any Congress minister will have to ... More About: Politics , Articles , Finance , Breaking News
Fatal attraction of Goan beaches
2008-02-05 15:54:00 Goa beckons tourists to ?the land of sun, sand and sea.? We envisage splendid beaches, water sports and divine backdrops?but before you pack your bags, read this ? Goa beaches can be about deaths too! ?WE ENTICE people from India?s hinterland to our land of beaches and booze. A fatal combination for those who have never ... More About: Articles , Beaches , Attraction , Fatal
Union Ministry urged not to grant licences for mining in Goa
2008-02-05 15:41:00 It has become a major scandal that needs to be thoroughly probed. The Goa Foundation has asked the Union Environment and Forests Ministry to stop granting environment clearances for iron ore mining in Goa. The issue of granting clearances has become a major environmental ?scandal? that needs to be thoroughly probe, Claude Alvares, Director, Goa Foundation, told ... More About: Articles , Mining , Grant
Meet on climate change
2008-02-04 19:23:00 As global warming and climate change are affecting policies and priorities in natural research management and environment-related studies across the globe, the department of Forestry under College of Agriculture, OUAT here, is all set to organise a two-day national seminar on “Climate change and natural resource management,” from March 17. Supported by the Indian Council of ... More About: Articles , Climate Change , Change , Meet
India says rebels planned Goa strikes
2008-02-04 19:13:00 Indian intelligence agencies said Islamist fundamentalists planned serial bomb blasts in Goa, a tourist destination popular with Israeli visitors. They said the plan was revealed during the interrogation of Hyderabad resident Raziuddin Nasir. The arrival of a large number of foreign tourists, especially Israelis, seemed to have put the beaches on the cross-hairs of Lashkar-e-Toiba and ... More About: India , Articles
Ravi assures all help to Marketing Federation
2008-02-04 19:10:00 The Minister for Home and Co-operation, Mr Ravi Naik has assured all possible help to the Goa Co-operative Marketing and Supply Federation to strengthen its network in Goa and come out of financial crisis they are facing presently. Mr Ravi Naik was speaking as chief guest after inaugurating a godown constructed for storage of Bharat Gas ... More About: Articles
Goa carnival kicks off with Samba beats
More articles from this author:2008-02-03 17:12:00 In Goa, the celebrations have begun. The annual Goa Carnival is under way, with Brazilians joining in the festivities, and King Momo inviting you to ‘break free’. Goa shows you how fun is done. King Momo, welcome all you wonderful people, young, and young at heart. No work, all play, dance and fun. There are no ... More About: Articles , Samba , Beats , Kicks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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