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  Goa Health Minister inspects screening facilities at Dabolim airport amid coronavirus scare

  News | March 19, 2020 14:23 IST

  The Health Minister of Goa Vishwajit Rane inspected Dabolim Airport on March 19. He visited the airport for inspecting procedures adopted and screening facilities taken in the wake of coronavirus threat.

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  Goa: 3 Teenage boys killed as car plunges into ravine

  India | March 09, 2020 11:07 IST

  Three teenage boys were killed after their car skidded off the road and fell into a ravine in South Goa district on Sunday evening

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  ICG conducts national-level search and rescue exercise at Goa's Caranzalem beach

  News | March 07, 2020 11:51 IST

  National-level search and rescue exercise was conducted at North Goa's Caranzalem beach. The maritime exercise was conducted by Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on March 06. Several mock rescue operations and drills were performed by ICG.

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  Goa 'Carnival 2020' kicks off in Panaji

  News | February 23, 2020 14:37 IST

  Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant flagged off the Carnival 2020 float parade in Panaji on February 22.

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  Fire at civic-run waste treatment plant in Goa; no casualty

  India | January 13, 2020 11:18 IST

  The fire brigade got a call at 4.30 am about the blaze at the waste treatment plant located near a bus stand on the outskirts of Panaji city. "The earthmoving machinery and some other machines used to treat garbage at the plant were gutted in the blaze," the official said.

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  '70 lakh women screened for breast cancer under Ayushman Bharat'

  India | January 11, 2020 18:53 IST

  "70 lakh women have screened for breast cancer through Ayushman Bharat scheme," Irani said, adding that 30 lakh women across India have been screened for cervical cancer under the national universal health care scheme.

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  Man poses as UP minister, stays at Goa guest house; arrested

  India | January 09, 2020 11:12 IST

  "As he had shown his designation as Minister of Cooperation from the Uttar Pradesh government, he was also provided with a personal security officer from the Goa Police," the official said. After his behaviour was found to be suspicious, Goa CM brought it to the notice of the Goa Police.

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  Act against those who destroyed railway property: Goyal hits back at Mamata

  India | December 29, 2019 12:22 IST

  "I appeal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to take stern action against the culprits," the BJP leader said.

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  Congress seeks SIT probe in death of 2 Andhra youths in Goa

  India | December 28, 2019 14:05 IST

  Two youths from Hyderabad, both of them friends, fainted and collapsed while waiting outside the festival venue at Vagator beach village in North Goa on Friday evening.

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  Goa: Law student alleges threat from BJP leader over CAA social media post

  India | December 20, 2019 19:14 IST

  A law college student has filed a complaint against a Goa BJP leader for allegedly threatening him over his comments about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on the social media, police said on Friday. The BJP leader, however, denied threatening anyone on social media.

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  Onion prices remain high, soar to Rs 110/kg in Panaji

  Business | November 28, 2019 21:39 IST

  The stock holding limit was imposed in September. At present, retailers can stock onion only up to 100 quintals and wholesale traders are allowed to keep up to 500 quintals. Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday had asserted that the government was making maximum efforts to control prices.

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  Providing jobs to ex-Jet Airways employees not in our domain: Govt

  India | November 27, 2019 17:31 IST

  The Naresh Goyal-led Jet Airways, which was the largest private carrier at its time, was grounded on April 17 due to financial troubles. Jet Airways employed around 18,000 people, when the carrier suspended its international and domestic flights.

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  Withdraw 144 CrPC before IFFI begins: Congress

  India | November 19, 2019 13:07 IST

  Over 9,000 delegates are likely to attend the 50th edition of the country's largest international film festival jointly organised by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Goa government which is scheduled to be held from November 20-28.  

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  Goa tourists to stay away till October 27

  India | October 24, 2019 18:58 IST

  Goa was put on red alert for Thursday, as it has been receiving heavy to very heavy showers because of a cyclonic depression in the Arabian Sea

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  Goa to make rain water harvesting mandatory for all new constructions

  India | August 26, 2019 17:45 IST

  The government's move comes after the capital city of Panaji and some areas in Tiswadi and Ponda talukas of North Goa district faced water scarcity last week due to bursting of a pipeline.

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  Goa Cabinet Reshuffle: CM Pramod Sawant reshuffles cabinet, drops three GFP ministers

  Politics | July 13, 2019 16:43 IST

    Michael Lobo, who resigned as the deputy speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly, and three of the 10 MLAs who had earlier this week joined the BJP -- Chandrakant Kavlekar, Jeniffer Monserratte, Philip Neri Rodrigues -- were sworn in as new ministers.  

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  Swiggy delivery boys on strike in Panaji

  India | July 05, 2019 18:23 IST

  Speaking to reporters, a spokesperson for the striking Swiggy employees, Harshal Toraskar, said that the strike was called after the delivery boys were denied the payouts promised to them at the time of joining.

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  BJP's MLA Rajesh Patnekar elected as Goa Assembly Speaker

  India | June 04, 2019 12:50 IST

  "I congratulate you on winning an election on a post of Speaker. Speaker has to be neutral. You will be judged by the decisions of the House," Pratap Singh Rane told the media after the special one-day Assembly session.

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  Congress MLA, Panaji Mayor among 3 booked for molesting woman

  June 01, 2019 12:05 IST

  When contacted, Monserrate claimed that no such incident has happened. He said that he was present at the site only to oversee the demolition work being conducted by the civic body.

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  Panaji Assembly bypoll: BJP loses Manohar Parrikar's seat to Congress

  Politics | May 23, 2019 12:39 IST

  Atanasio Monserrate has won the Panaji Assembly bypoll election, with BJP losing Manohar Parrikar's seat.