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The 2015 edition of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) too will see its opening and closing ceremonies being held for the second consecutive year at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium in Taleigao. Union defence minister Manohar Parrikar made a grand announcement, to a thundering applause from the glitterati, at the inaugural ceremony of last Iffi that a new convention centre would be ready to host the festival opening in 2015. But, it appears, that things have not gone as planned

The government has constituted an expert committee to set up a common biomedical waste treatment facility at a central location to tackle the growing quantity of such waste in Goa

The defence forces medical corps have welcomed OROP but expressed the wish that the government be as sensitive to their problems as well.

The defence forces medical corps have welcomed OROP but expressed the wish that the government be as sensitive to their problems as well.

CCP’s New Project Will Cater To Hindus, Muslims, Christians

In a daylight robbery, an unidentified person robbed gold chains and a bangle from two women, including a senior citizen, at Waddev Nagar, in Honda, Sattari, on Monday.

A local NGO presented awards to social sector volunteers at an event in Bandra last week.

Thieves targeted six stores along the NH 17 at Porvorim on Monday morning and decamped with cash amounting to 70,000. Sources said the accused struck at around 5.30am and that the thieves didn’t take any goods from the stores. A medical store, supermarket, and a pet shop, automobile store and agricultural equipment shop were among the stores targeted.

Muslim community leaders in the city have decided not to use loudspeakers for the 5.30 am azan, or the call for prayer to the faithful. The decision was taken to be in consonance with the directives of the Supreme Court on loudspeakers.

Shet Faces Competition For Lone Vacancy

The Karnataka government will in a week decide on filing an interim affidavit before the central water disputes tribunal, set up to resolve the dispute between Karnataka and Goa over diverting River Mhadei waters to the Malaprabha river from the Kalasa and Banduri nullahs

What better way to pass on a social message than use the medium of performing arts? Aiming to motivate citizens to become active agents of healthy and sustainable living, the Goa state urban development agency (GSUDA) has organized a state-wide awareness programme. Street plays will draw attention to issues of open defecation, public sanitation and solid waste management

Shrubs of karvi in the Western Ghat areas of Sattari experience flowering of violet colour flowers once in a lifetime

Goa IT Professionals (GITP)’s initiative, ‘‘Goans Empowered with IT,’ has been recently launched at St Bartholomew’s high school, Chorao, to promote IT education.

Mangesh Ladu Gawas won the byelection for ward no. 5of Pale village panchayat (VP), while Baban Chari won the bypoll for ward no. 1 of Latambarcem VP. The elections were held on Sunday and the results were declared at the office of the Bicholim mamlatdar on Monday

If Goa has to achieve high levels of cleanliness, local institutions like panchayats, municipalities, NGOs and other institutions have to help in generating awareness, governor Mridula Sinha said at a meeting of coordination committee members on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at Raj Bhavan on Monday

Defence minister Manohar Parrikar clarified in the city on Monday that in the armed forces the concept of voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) as normally understood in the civilian sector did not exist. He was speaking in the context of the new one-rank-one-pension (OROP) policy of the government for retired military personnel.

The diamond merchants of BKC were long troubled by absenteeism among their workforce. Office employees cited toothache and headache to skip work.

Gujarat has witnessed the driest August in a decade this year with the rain deficit having already touched 11 per cent. Saurashtra and Kutch received meager 13.4 mm rainfall this time this month, while Gujarat region received 39mm rainfall.

Congress corporators on Monday protested against the BMC administration for not holding municipal officers accountable for the June 19 flooding in the city and the false claims of nullah desilting. They demanded a police case be registered against contractors and officials involved in the desilting scam.

Gujarat high court on Monday put an end to contempt of court proceedings initiated against Ahmedbad (rural) SP Nirlipt Rai after his explanation for not being able to spare a police officer for scheduled court proceeding in Deesa in the past.

Truant rains have led to water being drawn heavily from the dams in the state.

The family of three had gone for a ride; 3-year-old daughter is under treatment in hospital

The Thane district court has sent a clear message to practicing lawyers that quality matters more than quantity of evidence while acquitting an alleged accused in a murder caseof 2012