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Commander Nishant Singh, a fighter pilot of the Indian Navy, was laid to rest with full military honours at Goa on 11 Dec 20. Commander Nishant did not survive the Mig-29K crash off Goa on 26 Nov 20. His wife, Mrs Nayaab Randhawa received the tricolour and her husband’s uniform from the Commanding Officer of the squadron. The son of a naval officer, Commander Nishant was a Qualified Flying Instructor adept on Kiran, Hawk and Mig-29K fighter aircraft. The Indian Navy has lost one of its most accomplished aviators in Cdr Nishant as he had also received advanced strike training…

Panaji: Goa witnessed three rescues today. A couple hailing from Mumbai were rescued at Arambol by Drishti Lifesavers while a male was rescued at Palolem during a kayaking accident. This is the fourth kayak related rescue in the last month. At around 16:40 hrs at Arambol, a couple in their thirties entered into the waters wearing their personal life jackets. After a while, the duo felt comfortable and took off their life jackets and continued to swim. A short while later Drishti lifesaver Manoj Parab noticed the couple gesturing for help as they seemed to have got caught in a…

Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai today challenged the Chief Minister to state whether has any guts to stop the ‘Yogi Model’ of Governance from entering into Goa. He warned that there will be no beef on the Goan platter this Christmas as Karnataka has banned all slaughter of live stock. Vijai said “If the supply is stopped from Karnataka, then there won’t be any beef on the Goan platter this Christmas. There will be no beef for those who have it as their staple diet. An attempt is being made to create a divide between communities” he said. “There is a…

Goa despite being a rich state culturally and even financially has unfortunately been reduced to shambles thanks to its successive wrong governance by both the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party and the ensuing Zilla Panchayat elections should be an opportunity for Goans to tech these parties a befitting lesson said Aam Aadmi Party. AAP Goa convener Rahul Mhambre urged the people of Goa to vote and elect the candidates fielded by AAP so that the corrupt and anti-Goan political parties get a clear message that Goans want to be ruled by people of the State and not Delhi…

PANJIM: Goa today reported 104 new positive Covid-19 cases today. while there 130 recoveries and zero deaths reported today. The active cases stand at 1187, the samples tested today are 1644, the total deaths are 703 and recovery rate is 96.16 percent.

It is utter disgraceful that Congress has been trying to cover up their sins, corruption and misdeeds by making allegations against former CM late Manohar Parrikar, who has been instrumental in bringing to book the large-scale loot through illegal mining. It is worth recalling that during Congress-led government’s rule in the state, there was unaccountable, uncontrolled and unprecedented extraction of Iron Ore violating all the laws. Their own Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, had instituted Justice Shah Commission to investigate into the illegalities, which was placed before the Parliament. Then Union Environment Minister Jayanti Natarajan, who is also a Congress…

The Directorate of Food & Drugs Administration (FDA), Goa has set up Goa State Price Monitoring & Resource Unit Society (PMRU) with the help of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, New-Delhi. The PMRU will function under the direct supervision of the Director, Food and Drug Administration; from the premises of Directorate; at Bambolim-Goa. The primary objective of PMRU is to ensure availability of medicines throughout the State at the notified price; to monitor the prices of pharmaceutical formulations including medical devices; monitoring the price movement of scheduled and non-scheduled Pharmaceutical formulations; collection and compilation of market based data of pharmaceutical formulations;…