Pankaj Advani wins 11th Asian billiard championship
Six-time world champion Pankaj Advani on Sunday clinched the 11th ONGC Asian Billiards Championship title after defeating Thawat Sujaritthurakarn of Thailand in the final.
Although Advani was the one
Goa airport to be closed for 3 days from April 5
Goa’s lone airport is heading for an annual maintenance closure for three days during the day time from April 5 onwards, forcing airline companies to reschedule their flights for this coastal destinat
Goa: 16 arrested for illegal mining
Goa police have arrested 16 people for illegal iron ore mining.
Six persons were arrested at Morlem village, 40 km from Panaji, on Saturday, and 12 more were arrested on Sunday.
Police Inspector Sid
Allowance for housewives, petrol gets cheaper in Goa
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday presented a populist budget by slashing petrol prices by Rs 11, announcing Rs 1,000 monthly allowance for housewives, proposing to stabilise domestic gas
Ship stuck on Goa's shore 12 yrs ago, will cease to exist soon
A huge oil tanker ship that had run aground on Goa's Candolim beach 12 years ago, will finally vanish from the spot by the end of the next month, as it is being broken into parts by professional ship-
Over 100 tombstones vandalised in Goa
Over 100 tombstones in Muslim and Christian graveyards have been vandalised in a mining town in Goa, police said on Monday.
The incidents took place in Curchorem, a mining town 50 km from here. The G
Manohar Parrikar sworn in for 2nd term as Goa CM
Mr Manohar Parrikar, who spearheaded the BJP’s emphatic win in the Assembly polls with a majority of its own for the first time, on Friday took oath as chief minister of Goa at the head of a six-member coalition government.
Manohar Parrikar to take oath as Goa Chief Minister on Friday
Chief Minister-designate Manohar Parrikar and six other legislators would be sworn in as ministers here on Friday.
Senior BJP leaders including L.K. Advani and Sushma Swaraj will attend the oath taki
Man-next-door Parrikar returns as Goa CM
For BJP leader Manohar Parrikar, who was sworn in as Goa chief minister on Friday, the third stint in the top post comes with no coalition strings attached following the party's emphatic mandate in th
BJP-MGP set to form govt in goa
In Goa the overwhelming public sentiment on Tuesday was: “Don’t take our intelligence for granted.”
As news started coming of Congress heavyweights falling one by one by the wayside, the feeling on the streets of Panaji was one of profound relief and a sense of achievement at ending the rule of a party whose leaders had been accused of systematically plundering the state for personal financial gains.