Panaji, October 22, 2020 The Goa Investment Promotion Board is organising a Roundtable discussion with Norwegian Companies on investment opportunities in the state of Goa on October 23, 2020. The discussion will be held in association with Norwegian Business Association India (NBAI). The discussion will focus on investment opportunities in the state mainly in maritime, manufacturing and oil and gas sectors. Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant will address the Roundtable discussion through a virtual mode. Shri J. Ashok Kumar, IAS, Secretary for Industries and Smt Vandana Rao, IAS , CEO IPB will be presenting a brief on investment…
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PANAJI: Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) spokesperson and leader Adv. Surel Tilve poses 5 questions to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, asks to give the answers to every Goan. Almost a day after the volunteers, activists and members of the Aam Aadmi Party were arrested for holding a protest in front of the official residence of the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at Altinho in Panaji, Adv. Surel Tilve, spokesperson and leader of Aam Aadmi Party, addressed a press conference in Panaji. In this media address, he posed 5 questions to the Goa chief minister on behalf of goans and has asked Sawant…
In view of the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of India had taken a series of steps to curtail the inward and outward movement of international passengers since February, 2020. The Government has now decided to make a graded relaxation in visa and travel restrictions for more categories of foreign nationals and Indian nationals who wish to enter or leave India. Therefore, it has been decided to permit all OCI and PIO card holders and all other foreign nationals intending to visit India for any purpose, except on a Tourist Visa to enter by air or…
Panaji: The Goa Foundation has said that Rs 717 cr will again go down the drain on mining front. It said that the Supreme Court, on 13.10.2020, passed an order permitting a few miners additional time till January 31, 2021 for transporting ore extracted before March 15, 2018. The Goa Foundation put up a strong protest during the hearings, arguing that the ore, after the statutory period of 6 months calculated from 30.1.2020), now belonged to the Goa government and to the people of the State. “In all likelihood, we (the people of the state of…
PANJIM: Delhi Police has encountered 1 accused and arrested 2 in Delhi in the Porvorim ATM theft case. This was done in close coordination with the Goa Crime Branch and Goa Police. Sources have said that cash amount of Rs 3 lakhs was recovered from the accused. Unknown miscreants committed theft of an entire ATM machine of Union Bank of India. Sources had revealed that the machine of Union Bank of India was loaded with cash worth Rs 20-25 lakhs. The culprits committed the thefts after snapping the CCTV cables.
Panaji: The Goa Pradesh Congress Party workers on Wednesday gheraoed the officials of the Social Welfare department and the Directorate of Accounts over the non-payments of monthly pensions to DSSS and Grha Aadhar Beneficiaries. The morcha was led by GPCC vice president Sankalp Amonkar and the spokespersons Amarnath Panjikar amongst other leaders. The volunteers first gheraoed the social welfare officers who told them the bills have been sent to the Accounts department four months ago. “The social Welfare department tells us the Bills have been raised four months ago whereas the Accounts department says they have not…
PANJIM: Goa today reported 308 new Covid-19 postive cases. While there were 408 recoveries and 2 deaths. As per the DHS bulletin, a 87 year old patient from Pomburpa with Atrial fibrillation and 59 year older patient from Ambelim with Diabetes succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile the active cases stand at 3099, the total deaths tally is at 557 while 1262 samples were tested toda