The Navhind Times

Govt plans to develop Gopakapattana port in Goa Velha Panaji: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday said that the original site of the Shri Saptakoteshwar temple at Divar will be revived after nearly 450 years as part of the Koti Tirtha Corridor Development Project, and the restoration would be completed within a year. The project []

Power Minister cites summer heat Panaji: Amid widespread public concern over unusually high electricity bills, the electricity department has revealed that it received 2,469 complaints regarding incorrect billing from consumers between April 1 and the present date this accounting year. Of the total complaints received this year, 1,278 were for incorrect billing, 606 for high []

Panaji: Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah will arrive in Goa on Saturday evening on a two-day visit. He will inaugurate and name the new Bharatiya Janata Party state headquarters located on the Old Goa bypass on September 6 at 4 pm, after which he is expected to interact with the state BJP leadership. []

Vasco: A 37-year-old motorcycle rider was killed on Friday afternoon after a high-end car allegedly collided with his two-wheeler and dragged it for nearly a kilometre before both the vehicles caught fire at Upasnagar, Sancoale. According to sources, the accident occurred around 2.15 pm when the car, approaching from an internal road in Upasnagar, collided []

Kyiv: Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, local officials said Friday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said US envoys are expected to visit Kyiv within the coming days as part of renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches into []

Access to justice should not remain a mere chimera New Delhi: In a bid to ensure that the attrition of the experienced judicial talent stops and access to justice does not remain a mere chimera, the Supreme Court has directed seven states to raise retirement age of judicial officers from 60 to 62 years. A []

Panaji: Motorists can expect traffic restrictions and diversions on key routes from September 5 to 7 as Union Home Minister Amit Shah visits Goa to attend the Western Zonal Council meeting and other programmes, including the presentation of the Presidents Colour to the Goa Police. According to the Traffic Police advisory, restrictions on September 5 []

India must cater to the food requirements of a large population with rising incomes and changing dietary preferences, simultaneously reducing its dependence on imported fossil fuels Indias push towards ethanol is being presented as an important step towards energy security. This is easily understandable since we import a large part of the crude oil we []

PTI Chennai The Tamil Nadu government has issued work orders for nearly 1.28 lakh gold rings, costing approximately Rs 220 crore, to two jewellery retail chains under the Maternal uncle gold ring scheme for newborns, a poll promise made by TVK, an official said on Saturday. Over one lakh gold rings are required to implement []

PTI New Delhi Passengers flying out of Indian airports will no longer be required to carry a physical boarding pass, as immigration authorities have decided to do away with the stamping of this document from September 1, officials said on Saturday. Instead, passengers travelling abroad will have to produce an e-boarding pass on their smartphones []

PTI New Delhi The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday condemned Congress for its decision to sing just two stanzas of Vande Mataram at its events and vowed to protect the dignity and the national status of the full version of the national song. In a 10-point resolution passed at a meeting here of its []

NT Reporter Panaji Goas decision to make cancer a notified disease will give the state a more comprehensive picture of its cancer burden, but the notification itself does not announce any new financial benefit or reduction in treatment costs forpatients. Under the public health departments notification dated August 20, all newly diagnosed cancer cases, including []

NT Reporter Mapusa Rovina Pereira Lobo, who has been lodged in judicial custody at the Colvale Central Jail since her arrest in connection with the 2020 double murder of her husbands aunts, has now been arrested by Colvale police in a case of alleged smuggling of drugs inside the prison. The arrest follows an investigation []

NT Reporter Panaji Goa recorded 169 road accidents per lakh population in 2024, the highest rate among all states and Union territories nationally, ahead of Kerala (136) and Tamil Nadu (88). While Goa may not lead India in terms of total road accidents by absolute vehicle volume, it consistently lands in the top five states []

NT Reporter Ponda Goa Forward Party (GFP) president Vijai Sardesai, at a meeting in Mollem on Saturday warned thatif pending payments tosugarcane farmers werenot cleared before the Assembly session, the party would bring sugarcane to the Assembly to highlight the issue. Sardesai visited villages in the Sanvordem constituency as part of the partys Jai Gaon, []

NT Reporter Panaji The District and Sessions Court, North Goa has rejected bail applications of Zakaulla Khazi (21) from Caranzalem and Riyan Bagwan (18) from Tonca in connection with June case of alleged trespass and assault at a Caranzalem guest house. The order was passedon Friday. The court observed that in view of the gravity []

NT Reporter Ponda A tense exchange between Aframent-Shirshirem residents and Water Resources Minister Subhash Shirodkar over water-related issues and the naming of their internal road as NH 566 was brought under control after Shirodkar assured the residents that their grievances would be heard and addressed. The confrontation took place after the inauguration-related programme for the []

NT Reporter Margao The Global Romi Lipi Abhiyan (GRLA), while congratulating the Tiatr Academy of Goa and the Tiatr fraternity on Tiatr being recognised nationally as an element of Indias Intangible Cultural Heritage, said the recognition should also lead to equal recognition for the RomiKonkani script. This is a proud moment for Goa and a []