Goa

A three-year-old case related to garbage disposal in village panchayats will come for final hearing on November 29 before the Division Bench of Bombay High Court at Goa. The double bench comprising of Justices D G Karnik and F M Reis directed all the VPs to file a compliance report over the garbage disposal site by October 31.

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The district authorities have finally set in motion the process to put in place a district traffic plan for South Goa. District Magistrate G P Naik on Tuesday issued directions to Sub-Divisional Magistrate and representatives of various government agencies to suggest proposals to formulate a traffic policy for the entire district.

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How an illegal hotel built on sand dunes nearly escaped High Court demolition orders, reveals CLAUDE ALVARES Our panchayats and their leaders have now become part of an all-Goa scenario of complete non-governance accompanied by acts of brazen manipulation and corruption.

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South Goa District Collector, G P Naik has sought a detailed report from the Tourism Department on the plan of action to lift away tar balls collected at various locations along Salcete’s coastal belt. The report has been asked for after Deputy Collector, Margao Johnson Fernandes toured the entire coastal belt – right from Cavelossim to Velsao – to find out the ground situation vis-à-vis the tar

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While the Goa Government repeatedly assures that environmental concerns from the large quantities of tar balls washed ashore on several beaches in the State will be dealt with quickly, it remains clueless on combating another crisis: the ongoing disintegration of a cargo vessel that has remained grounded off the shore for a decade now. Caught in a maze of red tape, the vessel River Princess con

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Goa tourism ministry will hand over the tar balls collected from various beaches to an oil refinery. Talking on the sidelines of NCP’s press conference, tourism minister Nilkanth Halarnkar told Herald that truckloads of tar balls will make their way to refineries very soon adding that no decision has been taken regarding the refinery. It may be recalled that tar balls which had surfaced on many

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Implementation of the ‘Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act’ is ‘Zero’ in Goa, according to Minister of Tribal Affairs Kanti Lal Bhuria. The Minister said he has written to the Chief Ministers of the States which have not performed well regarding the Act.

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The Gram Sabha of Seraulim village Panchayat on Sunday asked the government to notify the regional plan at the earliest. The meeting chaired by the deputy Sarpanch Joaquim Dias discussed the delay on the notification of the Regional Plan by the government and called for notifying the plan at the earliest. The meeting also discussed the damaged caused to the roads and culverts by road digging to

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The Karnataka government’s efforts to check iron ore exports are being thwarted by crafty mine owners that have secured permits to supply the mineral to steel mills in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Goa, but are instead shipping it overseas, industry sources said. Officials of the Department of Mines & Geology Hospet confirmed to Press Trust of India that permits were issued to local mining compa

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Paul Fernandes & Arvind Tengse | TNN Margao/Panaji: The deposition of tar balls on some stretches of south Goa’s beaches is turning into a complicated problem with the authorities struggling to find a way to dispose of the pollutants. Several truckloads of the sticky material are lying on the state’s worst affected beaches in Colva, Velsao and some other stretches.

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