'Threat' document on flight in Goa: Passengers under watch
After an English-Arabic document with ‘threatening content’ was found on a chartered flight at the city airport, intelligence agencies are keeping a watch on all the 243 passengers who were on board t
Unemployed Goa youths cleaning toilets abroad: Speaker
Unemployment is making youngsters in Goa desperate and forcing them to 'clean toilets in countries abroad', state assembly Speaker Pratapsing Rane said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters at the assemb
Goa on terror radar, issues advisory
Ahead of the tourist season, the Goa government on Monday claimed that it had received a specific terror threat input and asked people to remain alert, especially in the coastal regions frequented by
Goa police launch manhunt to trace missing woman from Orissa
Crime Branch has launched a probe into mysterious disappearance of a 22-year-old woman who went missing from a local police station amid reports of rape by a police inspector, sources said today.
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Mining scam: Goa CM meets Sonia Gandhi in Delhi
In the backdrop of allegations pertaining to illegal mining, Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the national capital, sources said today.
Goa speaker wants crackdown on illegal mining
Goa Speaker Pratapsingh Rane, who has sought 'time' to read an explosive Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report of the assembly, which has pegged Goa's mining scam at Rs.3,500 crore, on Friday pulled
Illegal mining: Google imagery brings Cong leader under scanner
The Manohar Parrikar-led Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which employed latest technologies including the Google Earth Satellite Imagery to track down illegal mining in Goa, has pointed out to certai
Kamat steers clear of illegal mining muddle in Goa
Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat on Monday steered himself clear of the controversies surrounding illegal mining activities in the coastal state claiming that he himself was a crusader against the unlawful activity.
Pimps luring women to prostitution in Goa
The lure of a job in a casino has landed a 22-year-old young woman from Mumbai into prostitution in Goa, police said on Friday. And officers fear there may be many more women in the same bracket.
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Night vision cameras to be installed on Goa beaches
More than 30 beaches in Goa will now have night vision camera that would keep an eye on the happenings on the shore in the dark hours, a senior tourism official said.
Director Tourism Swapnil Naik