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PTI New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday said the Centres response on capping the trade margin of anti-cancer drugs at 30 per cent of the maximum retail price (MRP) is hardly anything to be happy about and questioned why the government cannot cap trade margins of other medicines. The Centre, which has earlier come []

PTI New Delhi Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday decried Rahul Gandhis march to the Supreme Court as a drama, alleging that the Congress has been blaming the Election Commission for its defeats while its own visionless leadership is responsible for the electoral setbacks. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, he also []

PTI New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday said there was a need to balance religious sentiments with public health concerns while considering restrictions on firecrackers in Delhi-NCR. The top court said that people should voluntarily adopt less polluting ways of celebrating festivals rather than relying on restrictive judicial orders. A bench comprising Chief Justice []

Through Articurate, ceramic artist Archana Desai creates functional pottery while working towards establishing her own studio CHRISTINE MACHADONT BUZZ Pottery began as a hobby for Archana Desai, who first tried the craft during a class at her friend Sonali Bolars studio. Having grown up around women who enjoyed knitting, sewing and painting, Desai also took []

VINIKA VISWAMBHARANNT BUZZ The memory of a police jeep arriving at his school and asking teachers to send students home remains with 77-year-old senior journalist, Gurudas Sawal. It was the eve of Goas Liberation, an event he witnessed as a schoolboy. Decades later, he draws on such memories and years of political reporting in his []

NT BUZZ The Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) has selected Konkani tiatr artistes Antonio Sebastiao Xavier Rodrigues, popularly known as Jack Rodson and Felipe Norman Fernandes, known as Normandez, for its Lifetime Contribution to Khell/Khell-Tiatr Awards. Instituted in memory of late Rosario Rodrigues, the awards recognise artistes who have contributed to the development and promotion []

NT Reporter Panaji Expressing displeasure over repeated job scams where individuals have lost lakhs of rupees, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday announced that a detailed inquiry has been ordered into the recent scam linked to the excise and accounts departments. Speaking to the media at Mantralaya in Porvorim, Sawant said investigation will also probe []

NT Reporter Panaji The state government will appoint water inspectors to monitor wastage and issue guidelines to regulate the use of potable water, Minister for Drinking Water Subhash Phal Dessai announced on Saturday. Urging people to use water judiciously, Phal Dessai said the government is exploring restrictions on private swimming pools and examining technological solutions []

NT Reporter Panaji A month-long house-to-house verification drive will commence next week as booth level officers (BLOs) will move to re-enrol eligible citizens whose names were omitted during this years special intensive revision (SIR) process. The campaign targets approximately 1.39 lakh deleted voters recorded during the SIR drive. Reinstatement depends on meeting specific eligibility conditions. []

Shoma Patnaik Panaji Goan industry got hit by a power tariff hike on Saturday, as the government passed on the burden of higher power purchase cost to industrial consumers in the state. The upward revision in electricity charges for industries is until January 2027, and is with immediate effect. The tariff hike is earlier than []

NT Reporter Panaji Goa welcomed 76.9 lakh tourists between January and September, with a marginal increase of 0.76 per cent in footfalls over the 76.32 lakh tourists during the corresponding period in 2025. Domestic travellers powered the tourism count during the first nine months of the year even as the number of foreign tourists decreased []

NT Reporter Margao Priol MLA Govind Gaude on Saturday said artificial intelligence (AI) wouldnot replace humans, but urged students to master the technology without becoming entirely dependent on it. He spoke about its applications across various sectors while cautioning against its blind use. Gaude was speaking at the Seva Sankalp Abhiyan Sankalp Manthan programme []

NT Reporter Panaji The North Goa Fast Track Special Court has discharged a man accused of having sexual intercourse with a woman on the false pretext of marriage, observing that a marriage not taking place due to intervening circumstances does not, by itself, establish a fraudulent promise made with deceitful intent from the beginning of []

NT Reporter Panaji The state Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister PramodSawant on Saturday, approved a series of proposals, including the relocation of the proposed water supply project from Mirabag to Panchwadi, the creation of 100 posts under the Comunidades administration, and the extension of consultancy services for preparing a tourism master plan and policy. Addressing []

NT Reporter Siolim The long-standing demand for an upgraded fish market in Siolim is being addressed with the laying of thefoundation stone for its reconstruction at an estimated cost of Rs 1.1 crore under the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC). The project, whose foundation stone was laid on Friday, involves dismantling the existing dilapidated []

NT Reporter Margao Despite the cancellation of permission for the Goy Rakhonn Yatra, the Congress has said they will continue with the plan tohave their leader Rahul Gandhis participation on Sunday. Terming the yatra a grand success, the party said this success has caused worry for the BJP. Speaking to media on Saturday at the []

Flags casteist divisions during elections as a major challenge New Delhi: Coining a slogan, We Will Do It, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asserted that India will become a developed nation by 2047, but flagged casteist divisions during elections as a major challenge. Addressing the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Sabha to mark a quarter-century as []

Agency to be selected to organise road shows Panaji: The Tourism Department plans to spend Rs 4.35 crore on promotional road shows in Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, with an estimated Rs 1.45 crore to be spent in each state. The department has retendered the request for proposal (RFP) to select an agency to []

Prolonged closure unreasonable: Mayor Panaji: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) plans to reopen the Campal football ground, which has remained locked for around one-and-a-half years, mayor Rohit Monserrate said after the corporations monthly meeting on Wednesday. Monserrate said the prolonged closure of the ground was unreasonable, particularly when Panaji has limited recreational []

Study says maintaining landscape connectivity is essential for preventing genetic isolation Abdul Wahab Khan Panaji : Goa may be a small part of Indias Western Ghats, but it holds strategically important habitat for the sloth bear, with a new national assessment identifying 357 square kilometres of suitable habitat in the state, including 37 sq km []

An Indian-born cheetah named KJP21 has given birth to five healthy cubs in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, it was announced on Monday. The new births took the total number of the big cats in the country to 60. |ANI

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 []

Assistant commandant among deceased four Jammu: Four Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, including an assistant commandant, were killed after a colleague allegedly opened fire in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening, officials said. The incident took place around 7.30 pm at Sewa-III hydroelectric power project located at Mashka village in Basohli, []

Integrity report reveals failure to report approaches Panaji: Nearly nine months after the match-fixing case was taken up, Goa Football Association (GFA) on Tuesday announced disciplinary action against 13 players and a former team official, who also happens to be a police constable, suspending them from all football activities pending further investigation. The Navhind Times []

Amresh Parab Panaji: To boost crime prevention and public safety, the Goa police department has proposed introducing a real-time mobile application to record the details of individuals renting cars or bikes across the state. The police department informed transport officials that the existing Goa police app could also be adapted for this purpose. Under the []

Vasco: Mormugao police have arrested an 18-year-old youth for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl at his house on Monday night. Mormugao DySP and SP Gurudas Kadam said the accused and the girl are distant relatives and that their families live close to each other. The incident, police said, occurred after the family of the accused []

Centre approves funding for reservoir, subject to state water reforms Panaji: The states Salaulim Irrigation Project, Sanguem, is set for an overhaul after the Ministry of Jal Shakti identified it for extension, renovation and modernisation (ERM) at a cost of Rs 741.77 crore. The redevelopment aims to increase the area under irrigation of the Salaulim []

Panaji: To facilitate boat movement along a 2.1-km stretch of a tributary of the River Mapusa at Moira and to improve the flow of monsoon runoff to reduce flooding of adjoining paddy fields, the Captain of Ports (CoP) Department has proposed a desilting project. It has invited bids to prepare a Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment []

Shahin Bepari Lambe Panaji: The Quepem Municipal Council (QMC) has adopted a digital, citizen-assisted approach using QR code and a Google Form to map pet dogs, stray dogs and stray cattle, even as other municipalities mainly carrying out the animal enumeration through manual ward-wise field surveys. Through the QR code, residents can identify animals in []

Panaji: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday granted bail to Rohan Harmalkar in a money laundering case registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Single judge Justice S G Chapalgaonkar said that prolonged incarceration without trial progress in predicate offences violates the constitutional right to a speedy trial guaranteed under []

PTI New Delhi Researchers have developed a new dataset aimed at helping AI systems acquire capabilities to monitor crops across vast agricultural areas, identify what is growing in individual fields and even estimate when crops are sown, harvested and how much they produce. A multi-satellite dataset has been developed by researchers from the Indraprastha Institute []

PTI New Delhi Upping the ante over the SIR row, the Congress on Friday staged protests by attempting to march towards state election commission offices in various parts of the country, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumars immediate arrest, removal from office, and an independent review of all decisions and electoral roll changes made under []

NT Reporter Panaji Taxi travel in Goa is set for a major fare restructuring, with the State Transport Authority notifying new distance slab-based rates for yellow/black taxis as well as tourist taxis, motor cabs and maxi cabs, replacing the fare schedules notified in August 2021. The new rates come into force from their publication in []

NT Reporter Vasco Goas first foreign charter flight of the 2026-27 tourist season is scheduled to arrive at Dabolim airport on September 30, with around 180 tourists from Russia. An Aeroflot charter flight is expected to bring the tourists from Russia. During the tourist season from October to March, around 144 foreign charter flights are []

NT Reporter Panaji Keeping ethanol production in mind, the Sanjivani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd at Dharbandora will resume operations from the next crushing season after the state cabinet approved its revival under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model on Friday. Speaking to mediapersons at Mantralaya, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said a private bidder has been finalised []

NT Reporter Panaji Goa is set to expand its artificial intelligence-based traffic enforcement network, with 701 additional AI cameras proposed to be put up at 68 locations in the next phase. This will take the technology-driven enforcement system well beyond the 348 cameras already installed at 26 locations. Between four to 15 cameras will be []

PTI New Delhi Three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allies Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) on Friday sought a clearer explanation from the Election Commission (EC) regarding concerns raised by two Election Commissioners over the voter list revision, with Union Minister Chirag Paswan warning that []

PTI Chennai A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Friday sentenced four active cadres of the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) to life imprisonment for the murder of a Hindu Munnani leader in Coimbatore in 2016. The verdict marks NIAs first conviction involving PFI operatives since the government of India banned the []

PTI New Delhi As many as 111 MPs and MLAs changed their parties after winning elections to Parliament or state assemblies between 2022 and 2026, with the highest number of such switches recorded in Nagaland and West Bengal, according to an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch. The analysis, []

Panaji: The Captain of Ports Department (CoP) on Thursday said that the recently floated tender for the operation and maintenance of its terminal building and allied jetty facilities does not involve privatisation or transfer of ownership of government assets. There is no proposal to sell or privatise the Captain of Ports terminal building or government []

Panaji: Goa Polices tech-driven policing will serve as a guideline for informed implementation across the country Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Alok Mittal said on Thursday. Goa Police on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BPR&D, Union Ministry of Home Affairs, for the tech-driven implementation of the One Year []

Vasco: Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal has approved the establishment of a Seafarers Welfare Centre at Mormugao Port. He also said that an existing reputed Maritime Training Institute/College in Goa was being considered for affiliation with Indian Maritime University to strengthen maritime education and training. The approval for Seafarers Welfare Centre []

Panaji: The River Navigation Department (RND) is set to expand the Ro-Ro ferry network with the introduction of two new 21-m ferries on the DivarSao Pedro route. The service is expected to commence early 2027. RND Director Vikram Rajebhosle said the new Ro-Ro service would not begin before December, with the department currently targeting the []

Patna: Days after the horrific molestation case in Bihars Jamui district, a girl was allegedly harassed in public by a group of people in Samastipur and a minor was sexually assaulted in Muzaffarpur, prompting the Opposition to target the BJP-led NDA government over the law and order situation. The fresh incidents led to the arrest []

Khalid Jamils side begin run of friendlies against World Cup teams New Delhi: Three years after lifting the SAFF Championship at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, the Indian mens national team return to familiar territory, to begin a demanding run of international friendlies with a first-ever meeting against Panama. The match will kick off at 7.30 []

Panaji: Goa endured a batting collapse as their two-day All India U-16 JY Lele Invitational Cricket Tournament match against Chhattisgarh ended in a draw at the Infipro Sports Academy Cricket Ground. Chhattisgarh, who made 212/9 in their first innings, bowled Goa out for 120 in 66.4 overs to secure the first-innings lead points. Vishram Parab []

Traffic congestion eases along the stretch Panaji: Stung by criticism over traffic chaos in the last few days, the state government on Wednesday opened an exit point on the Atal Setu for motorists travelling from Merces and Bambolim towards Porvorim, Calangute and other destinations. There were traffic concerns around the newly inaugurated Porvorim elevated corridor. []

News report says Election Commissioners had objected on record at least 14 times over past 10 months; EC says decisions unanimous New Delhi: Differences in the Election Commission with two election commissioners repeatedly dissenting over the SIR of voter list spilled into the open on Wednesday, triggering Opposition demands for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumars []