Karnataka elections 2023: Goa State Industries Association president Damodar Kochkar questioned the rationale behind the decision; while Opposition parties slammed the BJP government on the move.
The state Budget has earmarked Rs 20 crore for the renovation of temples damaged or destroyed during the Portuguese colonial rule which lasted for more than four centuries.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are currently 27 active COVID cases in Goa.
Earlier, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said the party will explore political opportunities outside West Bengal and will enter the poll scene in Goa in the coming days.
Goa government will implement the New Education Policy 2020 from the next academic year from the pre-primary level.
Director of education, D R Bhagat, issued a circular to this effect, asking the institutes to compile a data of such students and submit it to the department by Monday.
While admitting that mass gatherings were a risk in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Friday said the Goa government will not ban public assembly ahead of the popular Shigmo festival, which is popular among Hindus in Goa.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said the mining activity is expected to resume in the state from next month.
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.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was told by Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the state government, that the construction of the airport has been stalled for the last ten months and the petition of the state government is pending before the apex court.
The 500-bed super speciality facility, being built under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), will be inaugurated by the end of this year.
In a faux pas, the Goa government on Thursday released a media statement wishing people on the Teachers Day and mentioning the late Manohar Parrikar as the current chief minister.
Ever since the defeat of the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls early this year -- barely six months after the party's impressive victory in the Assembly polls -- the differences within the state party's top leadership have refused to die down.
According to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, the Goa government was exploring options to ban non-Goans from starting co-operative societies in Goa, especially those which promise to double money in quick time. He has also directed the state Registrar of Co-operatives not to permit non-Goans from setting up co-operatives in the coastal state.
The state government has already launched a survey to find out how many people would benefit from the legislative amendment to provide quota to EWS in the general category.
The chief minister, who has been in and out of hospitals since early this year, is currently recuperating at his private residence here since he was shifted there from AIIMS in Delhi in October.
"People are being taken for granted. Had this happened in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, people would have stripped the politicians naked and taken them on a procession," said Velingkar
CM Manohar Parrikar said that in view of the on-going infrastructure development works in the state, the number of inbound tourists was likely to touch the 10 million mark in the next one or two years, from the current figure of nearly seven million.
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