Goa News

NEW DELHI: An embarrassed Israel on Wednesday regretted a diplomatic gaffe by its Foreign Minister Mr Avigdor Lieberman, who had compared violence in India to its widely-condemned attack on a ship carrying aid to Gaza strip.

NEW DELHI: In the aftermath of the Mangalore air crash, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a fresh directive to all airlines re-defining “correct landing” procedures and to ensure that a senior cabin crew is present in the cockpit in case one of the pilots has to go out.

NEW DELHI: Only eight of the 42 pilots who were caught in a tipsy state while reporting to duty last year were terminated from service while the rest were either grounded or suspended for brief periods.

PANAJI: A delegation of students from the G R Kare College of Law and V M Salgaocar College of Law led by Ms Siddhi Usgaonkar on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor and registrar of Goa University questioning the decision of the university to suddenly increase number of subjects in the final year of the LL B course from the existing 8 to 14.

MARGAO: With declarations of results of 12th and SSC examinations, students have applied for different courses and with it comes the requirements of income, caste and residence certificates.

QUEPEM: The renovation of Quepem Municipal Garden costing over Rs 1.28 crore has come under a lot of criticism from the engineers, lawyers, and locals because of the equipment, inferior construction material and slow pace of work.

NEW DELHI: Presenting his government’s report on completion of first year, the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday vowed to fight terrorism “root and branch” and enforce the writ of the State in dealing with Naxalism and political extremism.

PANAJI: With the land acquisition process for the Greenfield airport project at Mopa entering the final phase, the government is expected to finalise appointment of consultant within a week or so to go ahead with the project that has been lingering for many years, for one reason or the other.

MARGAO: The second autopsy on the 28-year-old woman from Loutolim, who died after consuming rat poison, was conducted on Tuesday by a panel of four doctors, informed officials.

PANAJI: The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat has said that the Mormugao Port Trust authorities have decided to go ahead with their expansion plans without taking into confidence the state government, its officials and people likely to be affected, even as he said that the state government has already taken up the issue with the central government.