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Child molested at Chicalim, driver held
Vasco police arrested a goods carrier driver from Banda, Maharashtra, for allegedly molesting a four-and-a-half-year-old girl at the Naval Colony in Chicalim on Friday evening. Police said Sudesh Parab, 39, was engaged by a naval officer to transport his luggage out of Goa as he has been transferred. While waiting for the luggage to be loaded, Parab mingled with the children playing in the compound in the evening and molested the girl. When her mother got to know about the incident, [...]
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Zuari bridge to be closed on Sunday
The Zuari bridge will remain closed for all types of vehicular traffic on Sunday, May 19, 2013 from 6 am to 9 am for taking deck levels. An official press release said that ferry boats will ply between Cortalim and Agassim during the three hours. The ferry service will be available only for passengers and two-wheeler vehicles, the statement said. Six ferry boats will be deployed on the route. No four- wheeler and three wheelers/other light vehicles or heavy vehicles [...]
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Most markets face shortage of vegetables
Most markets in various towns and cities in the state had very low stocks of vegetables due to the ongoing transporters strike. The stock of vegetables in Margao’smain markets - Gandhi market and SGPDA market – dwindled sharply on Wednesday, as the trucks engaged in supplying vegetables to Goa from Belgaum failed to enter the state in response to the strike call by the transporters’ unions to protest against the entry tax on vehicles imposed by the state government. Sources said only those vehicles transporting goods to [...]
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HJS condemns Congress, NCP and BJP’s support to cow slaughter in the state
Hindu JanajagrutiSamiti (HJS) condemned Congress, NCP and BJP’s action of supporting beef-eating population of the State. These parties are worried about the vote bank of minorities. Manoj Solanki, state convener, HJS said in this land (Goa) that has a long tradition of worshiping cows, people striving to save cows are called as fanatics. “The BJP, Congress and the NCP may succumb to pressure of some organizations and support cow slaughter, but the majority cow-worshipping population of the state shall not [...]
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Sarabjit’s body reaches Amritsar; India erupts in anger
The body of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was brought on Thursday evening here onboard a special Air India aircraft from Lahore, where he died following a murderous assault in a jail. It was a grim end to the battle waged by his family to secure his release after he had spent over two decades in Pakistani jails as the plane landed at Rajasansi Airport where political leaders, including Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and minister of state for [...]
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Beef dishes still off most menus
Though the high court of Bombay at Goa has conditionally allowed the slaughter of cattle at Goa meat complex (GMC), Usgao, most stalls across the state were still shut and cold storages had no beef stock, as the non-availability of animals prevented resumption of activities at the abattoir. A few cold storages did sell some quantities of beef, but stalls supplied by the Usgao abattoir did not lift their shutters on Wednesday due to non-supply of meat despite the court order on Tuesday. “No [...]
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Fatorda youth vow to protect their paddy fields
Raising its objections to the proposed Fatorda lake project and the plans to shift the Margao bus stand, Fatorda Youth Association warned that the farmers from Fatorda would not remain silent if the two proposals were implemented. The association has claimed that both the projects would come up in existing paddy fields and the fields would in turn stand to get destroyed. Association president Floriano Miranda said that state government should protect the existing fields and not destroy them with projects such as the Margao [...]
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Goa looks to increase medical seats to 250
Goa plans to increase the number of medical seats in the state from the present 150 to 250 soon, health minister Laxmikant Parsekar said on Saturday. The state has only one medical college, which is run by the state government – the Goa Medical College and Hospital at Bambolim. Parsekar said that the increase in medical seats is one of the many efforts by the state government to improve health care facilities in the state. Goa government has recently increased [...]
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This year, school even after exams
The examinations were over but students couldn’t holiday. Schools in Goa were forced to call back students to make up for the shortfall in the instructional days for the year, even though exams for 2012-13 were already done and dusted. Chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who is also the education minister, warned schools against winding up the academic year before the recommended 195 instructional days were completed. The directorate of education (DoE), too, issued a circular prohibiting schools from declaring the [...]
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