Panaji: Muskaan (name changed), 13, a resident of Chimbel’s Indiranagar slums, recollects telling her construction worker father every day to get her a pizza and cupcakes. But it is only through the short story she recently got to pen that she felt satiated.“I could not have such food in reality but at least I could…
Mapusa: After a fatal accident that killed a 22-year-old scooterist, the Mapusa traffic cell has begun a drive against illegally parked heavy vehicles on the national highway and service roads in Colvale.Following a representation from the Colvale panchayat, traffic officials registered six cases against heavy vehicles found violating parking rules. Authorities also carried out an…
Panaji: Catherine Fernandes remembers carrying a stone on her head as a ten-year-old girl, praying for rain. It was an old village ritual, the kind passed down without explanation, simply understood to work. Now 76 and living in Calangute, her knees no longer allow her to make that particular offering to St Anthony. But she…
Panaji: The town and country planning (TCP) department has approved the conversion of 17,518 square metres of land into settlement zones across Goa, while simultaneously inviting public objections and suggestions to proposals seeking the conversion of another 30,034 sqm, according to notifications issued by the department.The land-use changes, processed under Section 39A of the Goa…
Panaji: While scrutiny increases over the unbridled use of Section 39A of the Goa Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act to alter land use classifications in the Regional Plan 2021, the TCP department has approved the conversion of more than 5.8 lakh sqm of land into non-development areas.The move, implemented through a fresh notification issued…
Panaji: The town and country planning (TCP) department has proposed to classify 41 lakh sqm of ecologically sensitive land across Goa as non-developable area. While the department claims that it is taking steps to protect ecologically fragile land, environmentalists said that these paddy fields, mangroves, khazan lands, water bodies and sand dunes are already protected…
Bicholim: Newly appointed Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president, Girish Chodankar, on Monday said his party will win a majority of seats at the forthcoming assembly election“There is anger against BJP govt. People desire change. We will get a simple majority,” Chodankar told reporters after visiting the Shri Dev Rudreshwar Temple at Harvalem.The party will…
