Siemens eyeing double-digit growth in urban, infra segments
Riding high on the exponential growth of urban centres and the resultant demand for infrastructure, electronics and electrical engineering major Siemens is eyeing double-digit growth in revenues from
Music composer Anthony Gonsalves passes away
Legendary music composer Anthony Gonsalves died at a hospital here after a bout of pneumonia, family sources said on Thursday.
The end came last night at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, where h
In Goa polls, BJP wants to encash on mining issue
After exposing the Digambar Kamat led government on illegal mining front, Goa BJP has now woven its election campaign around the raging issue, promising people to save legal mines and providing them a
Goa BJP hits poll gear without main candidate
For the first time in more than a decade, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa has stepped into poll gear without projecting its chief ministerial candidate.
After propping up its poster boy, tech
Union Mines Ministry not in favour of hike in export duty
The Union Mines Ministry has expressed its reservation over Finance Ministry's decision to increase export duty on the low grade iron ore in the country, a senior official said on Friday.
"The Mines
Papa Rock drowns off Goa
The Indian rock scene suffered a big setback on Thursday as Amit Saigal, founder-editor of music magazine Rock Street Journal, died after an asthma attack while swimming off the coast of Goa.
Goa mining industry fears bleak future due to export duty hike
The iron ore mining industry in Goa is wary of the 10 per cent hike in export duty imposed by the Ministry of Commerce and said this taxation would further 'cripple the trade'.
On December 30, the M
15-year-old mentally challenged raped in Goa
A 15-year-old mentally challenged girl was raped inside a toilet of a Church-run centre for the handicapped, police said on Monday.
According to police, the girl was lured to the toilet by a man name
‘cong sensitive towards goa environment’
Addressing a 50,000-strong gathering here on Saturday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke at length about how her party was sensitive towards Goa’s environment — something which the local Congress has been repeatedly criticised about, given the illegal mining scam.
‘Assembly polls likely together’
Assembly elections in five states due next year may to held together, the Election Commission indicated Friday.