A student of St Thomas school, Cansaulim, Akshay Naik, 14, drowned at Arossim beach on Tuesday when he had gone for a swim with his friend. Naik, a resident of Velsao and a Class VIII student, had gone for a swim after answering his exam on Tuesday, as Wednesday would be a Holi holiday. He was with [...]

Panchayati Raj minister Laxmikant Parsekar has warned village panchayats that panchayat bodies would be dissolved if it deprived women members of their right to become sarpanchas. Speaking to TOI, in the backdrop of recent developments in Bhoma-Adcolna panchayat in Ponda, to keep the sarpanch post vacant for over three-and-a-half months, Parsekar said if the government found male panchas deliberately keeping women [...]

The Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) doesn’t have enough funds to pay salaries to staff, pension to pensioners or honorarium to its councillors. The financial crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party controlled CCP has been blamed on the previous dispensation. Speaking to TOI, Panaji mayor Vaidehi Naik said the council has discussed the financial [...]

Anjuna police on Tuesday night arrested and later released on bail Sanjay Govekar, owner of a bar and restaurant, at Dando, Anjunafor allegedly playing loud amplified music beyond the permissible time limit without taking permission from competent authority. After complaints by the locals, police conducted the raid and nabbed Govekar, resident of Soranto wada, Anjuna. Residents [...]

A massive fire broke out in a shop that houses the office of Goldstar machinery and general company on the Isidora Baptista road, behind Grace Church, Margao late Saturday evening. Officials from the fire and emergency services (F&ES) stated that prima facie it appeared that the fire was caused due to short circuit which engulfed [...]

MARGAO: Chief Minister Digambar Kamat took time off to take his family out for lunch, while PWD Minister, Churchill Alemao headed to Old Goa to attend a mass on the eve of counting of ballots. Daughter Valanka is believed to have also attended a Mass at Old Goa on Monday evening, while uncle Joaquim traveled to [...]

High turnout could differ results in constituencies MARGAO: The huge turn out of voters in Congress stronghold of Salcete has thrown up questions whether the turn out would hit the heavyweights in the political arena over the decades. The heavyweights, however, begged to differ. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said the question whether the turn out [...]

Aldona MLA Dayanand Narvekar on Monday stated that if Jeetendra Deshprabhu is given Congress ticket to contest from Porvorim constituency, then neither he nor the Porvorim Block Congress committee will support his candidature. Addressing a press conference at Porvorim, Narvekar said the Congress party has a right to stake claim on Porvorim constituency and under [...]