The Navhind Times

Margao: The United Tribals Associations Alliance (UTAA) will hold a meeting on Saturday to plan a state-wide campaign demanding political reservation for Goas Scheduled Tribe (ST) community. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, UTAA president Prakash Velip, executive members advocate John Fernandes, Vishwas Gaude and Joseph Vaz, and other members said the organisation would visit []

NT Reporter Panaji Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday called upon the party workers in Goa to gear up for the 2027 Assembly elections, asserting that lotus would bloom at every polling booth as he expressed confidence that the party would return to power in the state with a big margin. []

Panaji: The state government has notified an ordinance empowering it to frame rules governing the recruitment and service conditions of employees of Comunidades and staff working in the offices of their Administrators. The Goa Comunidade Employees (Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026, was promulgated by Governor Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju on October 22 and published []

Abdul Wahab Khan Panaji: The North Goa district administration is preparing for the population enumeration phase of Census 2027, scheduled from December 1, 2026, to January 4, 2027. Online self-enumeration will be open from November 16 to 30, followed by a revisional round from January 5 to 9, 2027. Unlike the first phase, which covered []

NT Reporter Margao Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri has ruled out a return to E10 petrol, saying the government will stick to its roadmap for a 20% ethanol blend under E20. Dismissing claims of vehicle compatibility issues as a systematic campaign against the government, Puri said the transition was technically []

Claims it didnt approve Form 6 change; notices issued to Centre, poll body New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will examine all decisions of the Election Commission (EC) and annul those found not to be in accordance with law, as it issued notices to the Centre and the poll body following pleas []

Points to rising pressure on water sources Abdul Wahab Khan Panaji: Goas first-ever Spring Census has flagged resource threats in 61 of the 1,171 springs assessed in the state, including 14 classified as facing a high degree of threat, raising concerns over the vulnerability of traditional water sources amid increasing pressure on natural resources. The []

Method is now used in laboratories around the world to reveal brains mysteries Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have []

Foreign secy Misri, Election Commissioner Sandhu also issued notices New Delhi: Former deputy prime minister LK Advani, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and Election Commissioner SS Sandhu are among the many prominent figures in the list of voters who have been issued notices for discrepancies in their details furnished under the []

Ecologically sensitive areas to be protected Panaji : Town and Country Planning (TCP) Minister Vishwajit Rane on Sunday said old settlements and settlement pockets that were earlier mapped under no development areas (NDAs) and no development zones (NDZs) would be removed from these classifications, providing relief to families who have lived in the areas for []

Panaji: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant is expected to chair a meeting on Monday to discuss and consider the recommendations made by the expert team from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur, on the traffic management and road-safety arrangements for the newly inaugurated Porvorim elevated corridor. The corridor has been in the news over traffic []

Seized narcotics wasnt kept at designated facility Panaji: The district and sessions court, North Goa, acquitted Nigerian national Domnic Nweke in a 2023 drugs case after the prosecution failed to produce the seized muddemal property before the court and could not establish the case due to hostile panch witnesses. The court also directed the superintendent []

Elavenil joins Sonam, Vidarsa for second-place team finish before winning individual medal India opened their shooting campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with a double-silver haul, as Elavenil Valarivan won silver in both the womens 10m air rifle team and individual events on Sunday. Elavenil first combined with Sonam Uttam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod to []

Shafalis maiden T20I ton powers India to 114-run win over Bangladesh Reigning champions India stormed into the womens cricket T20I final at the Asian Games for a second successive edition, securing at least a silver medal with a crushing 114-run win over Bangladesh on Sunday. Shafali Verma smashed her maiden T20I century, an unbeaten 100 []

Poorvas four-wicket haul goes in vain as they lose by five wickets Panaji: Goa senior women suffered a five-wicket defeat against Baroda in a T20 practice match organised by the Baroda Cricket Association at BCA Stadium B, Baroda, on Sunday. After winning the toss and opting to bowl, Baroda restricted Goa to 96/9 in their []

The seven-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival of Shri Shantadurga Kumbharjuvekarin Devi temple at Cumbarjua concluded on Sunday with the traditional Sangodotsav, featuring tableaux from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, historical figures and social messages. Earlier, the idol was carried in a palanquin for immersion. Organised by the local panchayat and villagers, the annual event has been held []

Panaji: The seventh accused, Satish Shinde, a native of Maharashtra, who was arrested by the Goa Police Crime Branch in connection with the Porvorim firing incident, was reportedly operating two tables in a casino in Goa. He was also allegedly operating a gambling den in Mumbai, which was shut on August 28, the day of []

PTI New Delhi The question before Indian courts is no longer conservation versus development but how the two can be harmonised and sustained together, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on Saturday and described the apex court as the banyan tree of environmental justice. Tracing four decades of the Supreme Courts environmental jurisprudence, the []

NT Reporter Panaji Drinking water shortages remain a persistent issue for residents across the state, with 46 localities spanning virtually all constituencies facing water supply problems for the past three years. Consequently, these affected areas continue to rely on water tankers. According to the government, the Department of Drinking Water has undertaken measures to rectify []

Dr. Nandkumar M. Kamat Our five-billion-year-old solar system has many mysteries. Earth was formed roughly half a billion years after the sun became active. We do not know exactly what happened during this period. The sun may still preserve evidence of violent episodes from the infancy of the solar system. A study by astronomer Mutlu []

DR. LUIS DIAS Life can be curious. A radio broadcast from thousands of miles away, a BBC Proms interval talk, made me take a closer look at something hanging on my wall for as long as I can remember. A Prom concert featuring the Berlin Philharmonic is always a big draw. On September 3, 2026, []

Frederick Noronha By some chance, these five books came my way via a book exchange. It was a welcome addition. Five volumes of Konkani plays, making for a total of 20 plays. For sure, the value of such a work will only grow in time, in any Goa books collection. Listed as Volumes 1 to []

Using fossilised teeth, scientists have finally taken theT. rexstemperature and it wasnt too different from our own. Researchers once thought that dinosaurs were sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Later findings challenged that, suggesting thatolder dinosaurs were warm-bloodedand could control their body temperature. Most scientists agree thatTyrannosaurus rexwas warm-blooded, but pinning down the exact core temperature of []

On the eve of World Alzheimers Day on September 21, a look at the disease from its early signs and risk factors to its progression, complications and the importance of a healthy and supportive environment DR R. G. WISEMAN PINTO Alzheimers disease gradually destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually affects a persons ability to []