Goa News

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.

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.

BICHOLIM: The ‘Lok Samruddhi Yatra’ organised by Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC), which began from Patradevi reached Mayem village late on Monday evening.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.