Новости за 30.06.2015

Taxi aggregators like Uber and Ola, which recently had a meeting with state transport commissioner Sonia Sethi, have introduced a host of security features for commuters — especially women travelling alone in Mumbai.

In a first, the external affairs ministry has advertised for consultants to join South Block on a contractual basis. These international relations experts are expected to add intellectual heft to MEA's policy-making machine.

In a first, the external affairs ministry has advertised for consultants to join South Block on a contractual basis. These international relations experts are expected to add intellectual heft to MEA's policy-making machine.

BJP’s first Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ six month old government appears to be in a limbo, as besides the CM, at least three senior cabinet members and more than a dozen high ranking bureaucrats led by Chief Secretary Swadhin Kshatriya are on a week long foreign tour or are on leave.

The Mumbai BJP on Monday deliberated on the Bombay high court's recent judgement on temporary mandaps and pandals on the city roads for religious festivals, it is learnt.

A delegation of the Goa seamen association of India (GSAI) held a meeting with the South Goa MP Narendra Sawaikar on Tuesday urging him to take up with the Central government their long-pending issues

Deputy speaker Anant Shet inaugurated the process of conducting survey of the houses in Mayem area as the execution of solution over custodian of evacuee property issue

Sports minister Ramesh Tawadkar along with SAG executive director Sandeep Jacques and executive engineer J Chimulkar conducted a site inspection of a sports ground in Poinguinim on Tuesday for the forthcoming national games to be held in November 2016

Exposing the conduct of the officials in granting nod to Construction activities of Goa Marriot Resort, the high court of Bombay at Goa has held that the state government approvals for the Hotel project are vitiated by malice in law and colourable exercise of power. “The authorities which are the custodians of power cannot be influenced in its exercise by considerations other than that for which the power is vested in them in the first place,” the high court remarked.

Sports minister Ramesh Tawadkar along with SAG executive director Sandeep Jacques and executive engineer J Chimulkar conducted a site inspection of a sports ground in Poinguinim on Tuesday for the forthcoming national games to be held in November 2016

Bharat Ankush Sawant, 24, a resident of Sheluk Badruk from Nagargao Sattari panchayat area died due to electrocution on Saturday

A 19th century building which was in a dilapidated condition and housed the post office for many years was reduced to rubble within a few hours after Quepem municipal council razed it on Monday

55-Yr-Old Motorist Was Knocked Down By Speeding Truck

Information technology and mining engineering seats in Goa colleges have seen few takers in recent years. But, this year, all engineering degree seats in Goa, including these two relatively unpopular streams, have gone full, with a record number of students answering Class XII exams and admissions to one engineering college being temporarily stalled by Goa University

Twenty-one children of class V and VI from Mahanandu Naik high school at Bhoma in Ponda were admitted to the Betki primary health center after a student found a lizard in the midday meal served to them during school interval on Tuesday morning. All students were later discharged from the hospital

he wildly-fluctuating vegetable prices in Goa have left the common man with no relief, especially with fish prices hitting new highs every day. The prices of French beans, carrots, tomatoes and potatoes sees a variation of 20-30 across markets in Goa (see chart), allegedly due to rain-spoiled vegetables, poor crops and transportations problems, according to vegetable vendors

A scrumptious iftar meal after sunset, breaking the day-long fast can be gratifying. For others, the meal at suhoor (meal before dawn break) is crucial than iftar. Although, if not monitored properly according to one’s dietary needs, fasting with two big meals to start and end the days of the holy month could lead to piling up of extra kilos and also play havoc with blood sugar levels

A reshuffle in postings of eight senior police officials of Goa was carried out on Tuesday.

Goa governor Mridula Sinha on Tuesday sent former minister and assault case convict Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco’s mercy petition to the state government, asking it to take a legal opinion on it

Students require holistic education to be able to solve real problems of the world. The educational system in the country with its separate departments and faculties doesn’t impart holistic education to students

A five-day wet spell yielding 38cm from June 18 to 22, almost half of the 30-day total, helped the monthly rainfall average rise towards the normal range

Almost 85 per cent of the construction work of three lecture halls and 95 per cent of the work on the girls’ hostel at Goa Medical College and hospital, Bambolim, is complete and both are expected to be ready by July end

The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has decided to issue directions to all municipalities including the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to connect all the waste water generated from establishments involved in slaughtering animals to sewerage treatment plants and similar facilities, to avoid water pollution

The state children’s court on Tuesday sentenced Ganesh alias Sachin Sawant to undergo 10 years imprisonment on charges of raping a seven-year-old girl in Sattari, in 2011. The court has directed him to also pay a fine of 2 lakh.