PANAJI: The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat, assured the protesting malaria workers, appointment letters, after consulting with the Health Minister, Mr Vishwajeet Rane, the director of Health Services, Dr Rajnanda Dessai, health secretary and under secretary, revealed the legal advisor, Mr Subhash Sawant.
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Agonda wants VP to issue shack licences
CANACONA: At the gram sabha held at Agonda village panchayat on Sunday, it was resolved to send a proposal for extension of panchayat building for housing a library, post office and a mini hall for some cultural activities.
Read More »Congress yatra faces black flags at Corjuem
BICHOLIM: The ‘Lok Samruddhi Yatra’ organised by Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC), which began from Patradevi reached Mayem village late on Monday evening.
Read More »Dead end likely for 40-odd mining leases
PANAJI: The notices issued by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to 45 mining leases asking them to suspend their mining operations due to absence of environmental clearances will expire on November 18, officials say, putting a question mark on the continued operation of these mines, with a moratorium existing on new environmental clearances.
Read More »Closing ceremony of IFFI may be held in Margao
PANAJI: The opposition faced by the government on the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2011 clashing with the feast of St Francis Xavier at Old Goa could see the closing ceremony being shifted to Margao, according to sources.
Read More »Loutolim gram sabha opposes regional plan
MARGAO: Around 500 Loutolim villagers, on Sunday, gathered, perhaps for the first time, for the gram sabha to oppose the regional plan for the village.
Read More »Mickky to float new political party
MARGAO: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA, Mr Francisco Xavier Pacheco alias Mickky, on Sunday, made his intentions clear to contest from the Nuvem constituency by floating a new political party.
Read More »Navelim locals for new plan
MARGAO: The villagers of Navelim, at the special gram sabha, on Sunday, resolved to demand scraping of the regional plan for their village claiming that it is in correct and there are too many flaws and errors, which will be difficult to rectify.
Read More »Ultimately people will decide: Cong
PANAJI: Ultimately the people will decide, feels that the Congress reacting to the various issues facing the party as it enters the final stretch of the pre-election preparations.
Read More »Chinchinim villagers want panchayat to tackle garbage disposal problem on priority
MARGAO: The villagers of Chinchinim, on Sunday, at the ordinary gram sabha, resolved to direct the panchayat body not to issue construction licences for the commercial building projects in the village till the garbage disposal problem is solved.
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