This year has already seen 77 deaths due to drowning across the state Panaji: Govt has called on all departments and stakeholders to adopt a coordinated strategy to prevent drowning incidents along the coastline as well as in the hinterland, with chief secretary V Candavelou stressing that public awareness is one of the most effective…
Kineco will manufacture critical aerostructures for SkyDrive as the Japanese company moves towards full-scale production Panaji: Pilerne-based Kineco has entered into a strategic partnership with Japanese aerospace company SkyDrive Inc. to manufacture and supply lightweight composite parts for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.Kineco will manufacture critical aerostructures for SkyDrive as the Japanese company…
FC Goa won the Super Cup and qualified for continental competitions Panaji: FC Goa’s preparation for the AFC Champions League Two playoff against FK Arkadag is nothing like last season, when the Goan club famously put it across their opponents from Oman and made it to the group stage of Asian football’s second tier club…
Panaji: Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday that while students have the right to protest against the NEET paper leaks, the way the protest was conducted and the language used were “not fit for students”. He referred to a protest at Azad Maidan in the state capital, where placards were displayed seeking the…
Panaji: More than 18 months after permission was given to set up an automated testing station (ATS) for two-wheelers, light motor vehicles and heavy vehicles on 4,000sqm of land at the Tuem Industrial Estate, the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) is yet to hand over the plot to the entity created to operate the facility.The…
Panaji: A Pocso court has acquitted a 38-year-old man of assaulting and attempting to rape his 16-year-old daughter after she did not support the prosecution’s case.The girl, living with her father, stepmother, and siblings, had sent her headmistress a Whatsapp message that she was being beaten badly by her father, and sent her photos, following…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday that once implementation is smoothened out of the “anywhere registration” system for sale deeds, state govt wants to implement the same system in the transport department. He was speaking while inaugurating the “anywhere registration” system which allows sale deeds and other property-related documents to be registered at…
Vasco: Traffic on the Vasco-Cortalim highway remained disrupted for several hours on Wednesday after a tanker carrying about 25,000 litres of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) overturned into a roadside ditch near St Jacinto Island at Chicalim.No casualties were reported in the incident, with both the driver and cleaner escaping unhurt.According to Vasco fire station in…
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant criticized recent student protests over the NEET exam PANAJI: Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday criticised the recent student agitation over the NEET exam, saying it had “stooped to the lowest intellectual level” after placards demanding jailed activist Umar Khalid’s release surfaced during the protests.While reiterating that students have…
Goa has so far received only 637.6mm of rainfall against the climatological mean of 1,119mm Panaji: Goa crossed the 50-inch rainfall mark on Tuesday, recording about 1,270mm of cumulative rainfall since the onset of the southwest monsoon on June 1. In comparison, the state had reached the same milestone much earlier last year, within 40…
