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.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant flagged off the Carnival 2020 float parade in Panaji on February 22.
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.
"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.
"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.
"I appeal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to take stern action against the culprits," the BJP leader said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Atanasio Monserrate has won the Panaji Assembly bypoll election, with BJP losing Manohar Parrikar's seat.
Voting began at 7 a.m. with 22,482 voters eligible to cast their votes, of which 10,697 were male and 11,785 female.
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