Panaji: Drinking water minister Subhash Phal Desai said on Wednesday that if Goa does not receive rainfall over the next 15 days, the state would witness water shortage issues in some areas. Desai said that there has been no water shortage till now, and that there’s still enough drinking water for a month.“We will issue…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: The 2011 Census, for the first time, pointed to Goa’s fertility rate dropping to below replacement rate at 1.7 children per woman in the reproductive age group. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 6 showed that Goa’s fertility rate has fallen to the second lowest in the country, 1.6.Now, the directorate of education’s…
TNNPanaji: After a public backlash, Goa govt has decided to waive penalties imposed on electricity consumers for using power beyond their sanctioned load. Penalties already collected will be returned and adjusted as credit in future bills for consumers who have paid, chief electrical engineer Stephen Fernandes said on Wednesday.Fernandes said that the decision was taken…
Margao: Five police personnel, including a PSI and a head constable, were transferred to the reserve line after a video allegedly showing them collecting money from vehicle drivers at the Mollem check post without issuing challans went viral on social media.The disciplinary action — against one PSI, one head constable, and three constables — follows…
Panaji: To offer domestic and international tourists a greater variety of experiences in Goa, the tourism department has outlined plans to offer over 60 tourism activities in the state without any financial burden on the state exchequer. From skydiving and seaplanes to feni trails and wildlife safaris, the department wants to ensure tourists have something…
NERVES OF STEEL: Socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia — fresh from his incarceration in a Lahore prison — addresses a public meeting in Margao At 94, Rafael Viegas still remembers June 18, 1946 — the afternoon that helped change Goa’s history. “I was there,” he says.Eighty years later, Viegas can still picture the scene in…
On June 18, 1946, Ram Manohar Lohia did something extraordinary in Goa. He didn’t merely challenge Portuguese colonial rule, he handed people their self-belief. Standing before a gathering of Goans who had long submitted to oppression, he called on them to overthrow their colonial masters. But more importantly, he sold a dream to the people…
The Portuguese were dictators, plain and simple. We had no civil liberties, no freedom of speech. When Ram Manohar Lohia was arrested in Margao on June 18, 1946, something changed. People rose in defiance. Satyagrahis took to the streets unarmed, and the Portuguese responded with bullets at Patradevi and elsewhere. People died for this soil….
Before June 18, 1946, the movement for Liberation existed only at an intellectual level. Ram Manohar Lohia brought it onto the streets, addressing the historic gathering at Margao. The demand was civil liberties—freedom fighters had concluded that without basic freedoms, people could not organise, and any direct demand before Salazar’s regime would be futile. Satyagraha…
BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT: The June 18, 1946 gathering in Goa was a defining moment in the fight for freedom On June 18, 1946, nearly a year before India’s Independence, Ram Manohar Lohia’s clarion call galvanised Goans, igniting Goa’s freedom movement that culminated 15 years later on Dec 19, 1961. As Goa marks 80 years…
