Editorial

GOA Pradesh Congress Committee President Luizinho Faleiro has urged the party high command to accept his resignation tendered by him almost a year ago. Faleiro’s insistence on quitting comes at a time when the party should have been strategising to contest the two vacancies in the state Assembly as well the seats in the panchayat elections. Faleiro was selected to ... Read More »

A fatal accident on Sunday morning at Naibag in Pernem taluka claimed two lives on National Highway 17. Two other people had died in the vicinity on March 25 this year. More than a dozen people have died in various accidents on the NH17 stretch in Pernem over the last three years. Accidents on the stretch of the NH 17 ... Read More »

THE state agriculture department has enrolled 25,000 farmers under the Soil Health Card Scheme and issued cards to 23,000 of them. Though the scheme was flagged off by the Prime Minister in February 2015, the state did not enroll any member till a year after the launch. The scheme is aimed at promoting soil test based and balanced use of ... Read More »

While the state government has been speaking of adopting various measures to check the rising numbers of fatalities in road accidents, it has failed to install traffic signals, which could prevent rampant traffic violations that often cause accidents. The state has a few traffic signals to keep traffic under restraint. Every year on an average, 300 persons die in road ... Read More »

There is uncertainty over elections to at least ten panchayats over the issue of reservations and delimitations as a result of three court orders, two from the Bombay High Court and one from the Supreme Court. Please like & share: Read More »

The representatives of the mining industry in Goa are planning to approach the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad to develop a framework for monitoring air quality in mining areas in view of the striking disparities in the readings of air quality of the iron ore leaseholders ... Read More »

The Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB) is going to establish India’s first sand dune parks on selected beaches in the state. The GSBB is also working out plans to restore sand dunes where they have deteriorated. In October last year, the GSBB had sent a proposal to the government to designate the turtle nesting sites at Mandrem, Morjim, Agonda and ... Read More »

The government is going to redraft its solar policy to facilitate solar power generation on a larger scale, with a target of 150 MW by 2022. Please like & share: Read More »

Fisheries Minister Vinod Palyekar has proposed to set up a separate and dedicated entity, Goa Fisheries Corporation to sell fish to Goans at subsidised rates. As fish is a staple food for a majority of Goans they would welcome the initiative and patronize the GFC shops or vans whenever they become operative. Please like & share: Read More »

A TUG of war appears to be going on between mining companies with operations at Sonshi and the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) over the issue of recording of air pollution levels in the operational mining areas. Please like & share: Read More »