Pooja Sharma booked on criminal charges shockingly gets a private clean chit from Goan woman whose husband and son were kidnapped

Prinsha Agarwadekar blames agents for the demolition of house and kidnapping; CM, Siolim MLA react sharply to backtracking by Agarwadekars

Activists peeved with the ‘compromise’ of integrity and people’s emotions

Wildlife rescuers ask public help after spate of marine life emergencies

Push for heightened vigilance during monsoon season; call on State to set up permanent infrastructure for wildlife veterinary services

Vasco man Imtiyaz Shaikh is Mayor of Swindon

Fence in pvt forest violates Dy Collector’s order: Kundaim locals

Want immediate action as contractor has erected poles for a mutt

Rumdamol VP yet to recover Rs 8.5 lakh as rent from local police outpost

Panchas say this amount can be used for village development projects

Crocodile spotted in Velsao-Pale fields, farmers panic

Chinchinim panchas meet power dept staff over outages

Thieves break into 12 offices in commercial complex at Ponda

Owners relieved to find that laptops and computers untouched in most offices, except for Rs 2,500 cash stolen from an office; locals shocked as thieves targeted offices where they usually can’t steal cash

Shack owners hope the new tourism season will be profitable

Rise in theft cases in Salcete a nightmare for Xaxtikars

Residents complain burglars are targeting apartments which are empty and have easy escape routes; want police to take note of their grievances and increase patrolling, especially at night; panchayats attribute the surge in crimes to influx of migrants

18 persons get uneasy by gas leakage at Merces scrapyard, 4 admitted to GMC

Two riders narrowly escape getting buried under landslide at Bicholim

Residents demand closure of highway following landslide; want proper audit of the accident-prone road

Saad objects to liquor outlets near edu institutions and religious places

Governance crisis in Goa: GFP seeks Governor’s intervention on critical issues

Recover power dues from defaulters before harassing common man, Cong tells Min

Yet another attempt! Goa Police submit draft Goa Police Act-2024

Fifth attempt to draft the bill since 1996

Blocked drains lead to flooding in Raia, water enters six homes

Damon residents claim they had informed authorities of traditional gutters being filled with mud, but they weren’t cleared; worry about sewage seeping into homes

Trees uprooted, houses damaged as heavy rains lash Salcete

Banalkars anxious over flood risk posed by Western Bypass land-filling

Govt to auction vehicles abandoned on streets of Margao and Fatorda

31 vehicles identified by Margao Traffic Cell; owners given six months to submit claims

Loutolim P’yat flags miszoning of agri land in Regional Plan 2021, calls for correction

Manora-Raia chapel ropes in youth to cultivate fallow paddy field, sets precedent for churches

Aaron, Chandan in table tennis title clash

Chetan emerges chess champ

Cumborda SC in last four

Navelim Villagers Union move ahead

Rosary HS, St Xavier HS march on

The beats of the ghumot in an international album

A heritage Goan folk musical instrument, the ghumot is an earthen pot-shaped instrument and one of Goa’s oldest musical instruments. Now, beats of the ghumot will reverberate in a new album, ‘Namaste Bombay’, by British award-winning composer Kuljit Bhamra MBE, which will be released on online platforms today, June 28. Featured in the song ‘Goa Beach’, and played by Tony Gomes, the curiosity of the instrument will increase as the ghumot awaits a GI tag

Taking shots for the record

Come June 29, India will celebrate National Camera Day, a day to commemorate photographs, cameras and its invention

Bulldozer Injustice

The wife went to the police station but the not so hard to believe fact is that the men in khaki played the proverbial fiddle of Nero, while Rome burnt or rather the house was almost demolished

End the ‘undeclared Emergency’ first

Waste Management

Letter to the editor (28 June 2024)

ASSAGAO HOUSE DEMOLITION: Anjuna PI, and two PSIs suspended in the case

The third conspirator in the case Ashfak Kadir Sheikh, resident of Mangor-Vasco also arrested,

LOCAL DEMAND CLOSURE OF HIGHWAY AFTER LANDSLIDE AT BICHOLIM

Local had warned the concerned authorities not to throw open the road

12 INJURED IN GAS LEAKAGE AT SCRAPYARD IN ST CRUZ ; 60 AFFECTED

One woman who was badly affected is out of danger; scrapyard owner unconscious

VICTIM GIVES CLEAN CHIT TO POOJA SHARMA; DELILAH SAYS SELLOUT

Blame agents for the demolition of house and kidnapping