The firefighters seen dousing the fire that was reported at a scrapyard at Nessai.
MARGAO: Fire broke out in a scrapyard located at Nessai causing a loss of Rs 40,000.
The Maina-Curtorim police suspect a mischief and are investigating the case. They have conducted panchanama and the case has been registered as a fire accident.
Firefighters put out the fire at the chemical factory at the Cuncolim industrial estate on Monday. (Ganadeep Sheldekar)
MARGAO: A chemical factory manufacturing alkylphenol at the Cuncolim industrial estate on Monday was engulfed in a major fire, which caused loss of several lakhs of rupees. However, nobody was injured in the inferno.
Police try to pacify a crowd of mining-affected people gathered outside the venue of a meeting held in Margao on Saturday to discuss the Shah panel report on mining.
MARGAO: Tension prevailed in Margao on Saturday at the venue of a meeting held to discuss on the Shah Commission report, and around 15 members of the Goa Right to Information (RTI) Activists’ Forum,
Opposition councillors seen in a protest mode during the CCP meeting on Thursday. (Nandesh Kambli)
PANAJI: Saying that the decision taken during its last council meeting, in January 2013, as regards banning exhibitions and film shootings in Panaji was ‘partial’ and ‘unjust’ towards certain parts of the city, the Mayor Ms Vaidehi Naik on Thursday said that therefore,
The PWD head office building at Altinho, Panaji.
BY TAURAPPA LAMANI | NT
PANAJI: In the run-up to the second budget of the BJP-led government on March 18, 2013, it is time for review and checks and to ascertain the fulfilment of promises made in the last state budget.
The members of South Goa Progressive Truck Owners Association addressing media at Margao, on Tuesday.
MARGAO: The president of South Goa Progressive Truck Owners’ Association, Mr Prakash Kashinath Raut Desai, on Tuesday, demanded with the government they be exempted from paying the road tax due for the next financial year since they cannot afford to pay it due to the closure of mining in Goa.
MARGAO: Opposition to the Mopa airport seems to be growing stronger, with gram sabhas of nine village panchayats in Salcete taluka on Sunday resolving to demand scrapping of the airport project while demanding expansion and retention of the Dabolim airport.
Water gushes out of the Selaulim pipeline, which was accidentally ruptured by a JCB excavator at Manora, Raia, on Saturday.
MARGAO/VASCO: The executive engineer of the public works department (water supply section), Mr P Fatarpekar on Saturday said a stretch of the Selaulim water pipeline got ruptured at Manora, Raia, after a JCP excavator working for laying parallel pipeline accidentally holed it.
Policemen round up the agitating students at the KTC bus stand in Panaji on Wednesday.
PANAJI: Coming on the heels of students protesting against mistreatment by private bus operators in Ponda and Margao, students on Wednesday blocked a number of private buses at the KTC bus stand in the capital city claiming that private bus operators are harassing them for paying concessional bus fares.
The KTC bus stand in Margao witnessed chaos on Tuesday after students blocked movement of private buses. (Ganadeep Sheldekar)
MARGAO: The Margao police on Tuesday detained ten students for blocking a number of private buses at the Margao bus stand. The students resorted to blocking the buses over the alleged harassment by private bus operators for availing concessional bus fares.
