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PTI Auckland India and New Zealand on Saturday elevated their ties to a strategic partnership, set a target of doubling their annual bilateral trade to Rs 35,000 crore by 2030 and decided to ramp up maritime security ties, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Kiwi counterpart Christopher Luxon vowed to work towards a peaceful []

Amresh Parab Panaji Goa Police is set to strengthen highway patrolling by deploying additional vehicles and implementing a detailed operational plan to enhance police visibility and ensure quick response to distress calls. A senior police officer told The Navhind Times that seven more four-wheelers will be added to the current fleet of three highway patrol []

PTI Hanoi Fifteen Indian tourists were killed after a speedboat they were travelling in capsized off Vietnams Phu Quoc Island on Saturday, the Indian Embassy in Hanoisaid. There were 36 people 32 Indian tourists and four local crew members on board. Of them, 21 were rescued. The Vietnam government ordered an immediate investigation []

NT Reporter Panaji Stating that spirituality can bring stability and compassion in politics, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday stressed on the need to integrate spirituality, ethical values and a spirit of service inpublic life. The Chief Minister was addressing the inaugural session of a conference on Politicians on Spirituality in Politics for a Peaceful []

Abdul Wahab Khan Panaji A recent scientific study has revealed that Goas Geographical Indication (GI)-tagged Khola chilli possesses higher antioxidant compounds, better stress tolerance and superior phytochemical properties than the widely marketed Byadgi chilli. The research attributed these advantages to the unique geo-climatic conditions of Canaconas Khola village and its traditional organic farming practices. Published []

PTI Visakhapatnam Future wars may be fought with Artificial Intelligence, but they will still be won by national resolve, trained soldiers and robust military power, Defence Minister Rajanth Singh said on Saturday. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony of INS Mahendragiri here, Singh also said Andhra Pradesh has emerged as a new powerhouse of Indias defence []

PTI Ayodhya Ram Temple Construction Committee Chairman Nripendra Mishra on Saturday said the alleged donation theft at the Ayodhya temple was a disgraceful blot, and everyone felt utterly humiliated because of it. He expressed confidence, however, that the temple management system would be improved to avoid a repeat of such incidents. Mishra arrived in Ayodhya []

Amresh Parab Panaji For the first time, Goa Police are introducing two-wheelers to the Police Control Room (PCR) fleet, which currently has over 55 four-wheelers, to respond to distress calls within minutes. A senior police officer said the introduction of two-wheelers will help the police reach incident spots without any hurdles, thereby improving the response []

AP Dubai A series of unclaimed airstrikes hitting Iran right after the US announced it had finished its own attacks has once again raised questions about who else might be targeting the Islamic Republic. The strikes occurred on Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury its late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hitting multiple areas []

NT Reporter Mapusa A 25-year-old electricity department employee from Maulinguem, Bicholim, died on Friday morning after suffering an electric shock while trimming trees at the Assonora water treatment plant. According to police, the incident occurred around 9:30 am while the deceased, identified as Manthan Aroskar, was clearing overgrown tree branches at the plant. During the []

Abdul Wahab Khan Panaji Industrial pollution, agricultural runoff, plastic waste, encroachments and unregulated tourism are damaging Chorao Islands fragile environment, with researchers warning that loss of mangroves, disturbance to bird habitats and declining ecological resilience could threaten the islands long-term survival unless conservation efforts are improved. A new study shows that while ecotourism has boosted []

Mbappe, Dembele dazzle as France dump Morocco 2-0 France booked their place in the World Cup semi-finals with a 2-0 victory over Morocco in Boston, powered by another decisive display from Kylian Mbapp. The France captain endured a frustrating first half, seeing a penalty saved by Yassine Bounou, but responded in style after the break. []

Defending champions Argentina face Swiss hurdle en route to semis Argentina will look to keep their World Cup title defence alive when they face Switzerland in the quarter-finals in Kansas, but Lionel Scalonis side arrive after surviving back-to-back scares in the knockout rounds. After edging Cape Verde in extra time, the defending champions produced a []

England seal five-match series 3-0 after nine-wicket win in fourth T20I Southampton: India will look to avoid a rare T20 International whitewash when they take on England in the fifth and final match here on Saturday after suffering a crushing nine-wicket defeat in the fourth game that handed the hosts an unassailable 3-0 lead in []

Panaji: The Goa Football Association (GFA) Executive Committee has resolved to invite applications from eligible players for the constitution and formal formation of the GFA Players Association, a move aimed at providing footballers with a recognised platform to represent their collective interests and contribute to the development of the game in the State. The association []

Parliament panel holds consultation with states stakeholders on One Nation, One Election Panaji/Margao: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), as part of its deliberations on the One Nation, One Election initiative, held stakeholder consultations in Goa on Friday to discuss the proposal for simultaneous elections across the country. The committee is examining the Constitution (One Hundred []

Panaji: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ruled that GI pipes and mild steel cannot be used in the construction of a beach shack at Betalbatim, Colva. While examining the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authoritys (GCZMA) policy of permitting mild steel-framed structures for beach shacks, the NGT observed that allowing steel and prefabricated material indicates []

Revenue Minister and Panaji MLA Atanasio Babush Monserrate met with shop vendors at the Dona Paula Jetty in Goa to hear their grievances ahead of Mondays scheduled replacement of their temporary kiosks with new and improved facilities. The meeting addresses a key Goa news development aimed at improving infrastructure for local vendors.

Months of innovation, coding and teamwork have earned five Goan students a place among the worlds top young robotics talent NT KURIOCITY Five school students from Goa have been selected to represent India at the FIRST Global Challenge 2026, an international robotics competition to be held in Incheon, South Korea, from October 7 to 10. []

I am a Class 12 PCB (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) student with a strong interest in English, psychology, biology and neuroscience. I enjoy understanding human behaviour, the brain and biological sciences. What career options would be most suitable for me and what educational path should I follow to pursue them? Rajesh Sawant I would suggest []

Don Bosco College, Panaji, launched its Silver Jubilee celebrations to commemorate its 25th anniversary. The celebrations began with a Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, Panaji, celebrated by Fr. Clive Telles, Provincial of the Salesian Province of Panaji. Students, faculty, alumni, former staff and invited guests later attended the inaugural function on []

Mushtifund Higher Secondary School, Cujira, welcomed its new batch of Class 11 students for the academic year 202627 at a function held recently at the Indishila Auditorium, Cujira. Founder and CEO of SoFueled, an IT services organisation, Prajyot Mainkar attended as the chief guest. Also present were Mushtifund Saunstha treasurer, Dilip Dharwadkar, manager (Administration and []

Both sides push for swift trade and investment frameworks Melbourne: India and Australia on Thursday sealed a raft of landmark pacts spanning civil nuclear energy, maritime security and critical minerals sectors, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese reinforced the vital role of the bilateral partnership in ensuring a peaceful Indo-Pacific. []

Says Centre sanctioned Rs 16,440 cr since 2014 Panaji: Stating that the Centre has sanctioned road infrastructure projects costing more than Rs 16,440 crore for Goa since 2014, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday sought continued support from the central government for key infrastructure projects in the state. Sawant said that the construction of a []

Panaji: To protect Goan identity in the fishing trade, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday announced that the fisheries department will issue mandatory fish seller cards to traditional fishermen. Sawant said only those possessing these cards will be allowed to sell fish in markets and villages, adding that a 15-year residence certificate will be compulsory []

Gandhinagar: Asserting that hydrogen is the future of the transportation industry, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the government is conducting trials on 10 routes across the country on its use as fuel. The trials are under way on Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Konark-Puri, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Pune-Mumbai, Jamshedpur-Kalinga Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi, Kochi-Edappally, []

Commuters are forced to jump over and navigate massive waterlogged potholes at the Margao Kadamba Bus Stand, risking injury. Despite repeated public outcries and promises of pre-monsoon repairs by authorities, South Goas primary transit hub continues to remain waterlogged and hazardous for passengers and drivers. |Amati Konduri

Panaji: A total of 129 Ganesh idol makers have registered on the Goa State Pollution Control Boards (GSPCB) online vendor portal, introduced for the first time this year to monitor the Plaster-of-Paris (PoP) content in Ganesh idols. The Director of Environment has set July 15 as the deadline for all those involved in the idol []

The Special Court, North Goa, held the first hearing in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case against the directors of Birch by Romeo Lane at Arpora, including the Luthras and others. Special Public Prosecutor Adv. Siddharth Samant briefed on the proceedings.

NT Reporter Panaji Alleging that Goans are being denied adequate healthcare benefits, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday urged Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to provide annual health insurance of Rs 10 lakh to every Goan family without any income criterion. Many Goans are forced to seek expensive treatment at private hospitals because of gaps []

NT Reporter Margao The Electricity Department is accelerating the commissioning of its newly laid underground cabling network and charging new transformers in Navelim as part of a long-term effort to address recurring power disruptions in the constituency. Officials said some of the transformers connected to the new underground network will be commissioned within the next []

NT Reporter Panaji The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Wednesday directed the committee, constituted by the court on June 18, to complete its report suggesting amendments to the Goa Prison Rules, 2021, for the establishment of open correctional institutions (OCIs). The direction wasissued during the hearing of a suo motu matter concerning compliance []

NT Reporter Panaji The North Goa District Road Safety Committee has directed the Public Works Department (PWD) to submit monthly division-wise reports on pothole repairs. It also decided that road accident statistics will be compiled and published every six months with a detailed break-up of fatalities, injuries, causes and accident-prone locations. The directions were issued []

NT Reporter Ponda Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday assured the people of Ponda that he had come to solve your problems, not for politics while holding an on-the-spot Janata Darbar at Rajiv Gandhi Kala Mandir in the absence of an elected MLA for the constituency. Responding to questions over the opening of an MGP []

NT Reporter Panaji A police complaint has been filed against Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) general secretary Vishvesh Naik and treasurer Ajay Kholkar, alleging the illegal expulsion of 10 primary members, financial mismanagement and other irregularities within the party. In a complaint with Panaji police, Licio Roncon, Rahul Naik, Premanand Gaude, Dagley Fernandes, Melvin Da Silva, []

NT Reporter Margao With football fever gripping Goa during the World Cup, Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Wednesday drew a sporting parallel to predict a decisive victory for the Congress in the next Assembly elections, forecasting a 12-0 score against the BJP in Salcete and Mormugao. There is a World Cup going on in []

AP Dubai United States President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday that the US was preparing for another night of strikes, just hours after he said the ceasefire was over because of Iranian attacks. A day after assaults on commercial shipping escalated into an exchange of fire on Iranian and US military targets, Trump renewed []

NT Reporter Panaji Observing that despite directions from the Supreme Court nearly a decade ago and a state monitoring committee meeting held a year ago, Goa has made little progress in establishing halfway homes and long-stay homes for people with mental illness and homeless persons, the Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) on Wednesday recommended that []

Amresh Parab Panaji The response time of Goa Polices Police Control Room (PCR) vehicles to distress calls has improved considerably, dropping from over 18 minutes in December 2023 to 8.27 minutes in June 2026. State police aim to reduce this response time even further to six minutes. Our target will be to bring the PCR []

Probe agencys act politically motivated, arbitrary and illegal Kolkata/New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has frozen three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), holding deposits worth Rs 440 crore, under the anti-money laundering law following searches in an alleged funds misappropriation case. The TMC called the EDs act politically motivated, []

Ayodhya: A preliminary SIT report has identified Avinash Shukla as the prime accused in the alleged theft of devotees offerings at the Ram Temple here, linking him to a suspected 40-day racket involving nearly 70 instances of pilferage from the donation-counting system, sources said on Wednesday. The interim findings of the three-member special investigation team []

Kolkata: One of the prime accused in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in West Bengals Baruipur was killed in an alleged encounter early on Wednesday after he snatched a firearm from a policeman and tried to escape from custody during a crime scene reconstruction exercise, a senior officer said. The encounter []

Melbourne: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived in Australia on the second leg of his three-nation tour during which he will hold talks with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese and interact with the Indian diaspora. Landed in Melbourne, Australia. This visit will add vigour to the India-Australia comprehensive strategic partnership, Modi said in a []

EDITORIAL Agriculture reforms require field accountability and stronger implementation Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday warned officials of the Agriculture Department of action if they fail to perform their duties. Speaking at Krushi Pe Charcha in Sankhali, he advised agriculture officers not to limit themselves to office work but also to step into the fieldregularly []

The Ministry of External Affairs recently clarified that an Indian passport is a travel document and not a proof of citizenship. Legally perhaps, the statement is correct. Yet it has triggered questions in the minds of Indian citizens that extend far beyond passports. How does one prove Indian citizenship? Although the question appears straightforward, the []

Common misconceptions about gum health often prevent individuals from seeking necessary treatment, leading to preventable tooth loss and systemic health complications DR. RAHUL LOLIENKAR Periodontal disease is an immune-mediated breakdown of dental supporting structures manifesting clinically in a vast assortment of ways, such as gingival morphological alterations, gingival bleeding, oral malodour, gingival recession, pocket formation, []

PTI Wayanad At least three people were killed, 10 injured, and five remained missing after a rain-soaked mound of excavated earth gave way at the site of a multi-crore tunnel project in Meppadi panchayat in this hill district, with two state ministers describing the landslide as man-made. According to officials, the landslide occurred near Meenakshi []

PTI Jakarta India on Tuesday agreed to supply BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles and Astra air-to-air missiles to Indonesia, marking a significant expansion of defence ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Prabowo Subianto underlined the importance of deeper bilateral partnership for a free and peaceful Indo-Pacific. The two sides inked 14 agreements to enhance []

NT Reporter Sankhali Advising agriculture department officers not to limit themselves to office work but to also be out in the field, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday warned that strict action would be taken against officials who fail to perform their duties sincerely. Addressing an agricultural conference in Sankhali, Sawant urged officers to regularly []

NT Reporter Pernem In a shocking incident, a nurse from the Government Hospital and Research Centre, Tuem, was brutally attacked by a youth armed with a knife outside the main gate of the Community Health Centre (CHC), Pernem, on Tuesday around 4.45 pm. According to eyewitnesses, the accused stabbed the victim four to five times, []