The Navhind Times

The Mango House, Merces, a design-led non-profit enterprise creates livelihood for local women by providing training and upskilling for traditional skills like crochet, writes Shahin Bepari Lambe The Mango House, a Panaji-based enterprise working towards women empowerment is creating income opportunities for local women by combining traditional Goan craft skills with entrepreneurship. The handcrafts products []

NT Reporter Pernem Chief Minister Pramod Sawant called upon the younger generation to shoulder the responsibility of building a developed India, saying the benefits of the countrys progress would largely belong to Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Addressing a gathering on Independence Day at the historic Patradevi memorial, where 33 freedom fighters were martyred in []

PTI New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged political parties to rise above differences to help secure 33 per cent reservation for women in legislatures, called on the youth to take the lead in building a developed India, and warned that armed Naxalism has been eliminated but dimagi Naxals still lurked. In his []

NT Reporter Panaji Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday said the Goa Human Resource Development will create 6,000 to 8,000 jobs in the next six months, and linked the job creation to wider efforts on infrastructure, connectivity and cultural preservation. Addressing the people during the 80th Independence Day celebrations held near the old secretariat, the []

NT Reporter Panaji Goa recorded 40 cases of crime against foreign tourists between 2022 and 2024, with the police filing chargesheets in 28 cases. Trials were completed in four cases, resulting in two convictions, according to data tabled in the Rajya Sabha on August 13 by Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Shekhawat said tourism, including []

Abdul Wahab Khan Panaji A bacterium living on jellyfish found off the Goa coast has emerged as a promising source of a biodegradable polymer after researchers isolated it from Chrysaora and demonstrated its ability to rapidly produce exopolysaccharide (EPS), a class of biopolymers with potential applications ranging from food and cosmetics to pharmaceuticals and environmental []

As Goa prepares for ST reservation in four Assembly constituencies, questions arise over representation,political opportunity, rotation and whether the system will benefit those most in need MITHIL FALDESAI Four of Goas 40 Assembly constituencies are expected to be reserved for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates in the upcoming election. This is exactly 10% of the Assembly, []

NT Reporter Bicholim Mayem MLA Premendra Shet on Saturday said people should be aware of their responsibility towards serving the nation, while Bicholim MLADr Chandrakant Shetye called for unity and secularism to strengthen the country. Shet hoisted the Tricolour at a function organised by the Deputy Collectors office in the presence ofShetye. People should be []

NT Reporter Margao The Benaulim BlockCongress on Saturday launched a drive to collect relief materials for people affected by floods in Assam, with the materials to becollected at its office from August 15 to 21. The drive was launched during a programme at the Benaulim Block Congress Office, where two young entrepreneurs, Lessley Pereira and []

NT Reporter Margao Benaulim AAP MLA Venzy Viegas on Saturday said citizens must question the government over their rights, while raising concerns over land conversion, paper leaks and the state of health and education. Speaking after unfurling the national flag at his office on Independence Day, Viegas said, For 79 years the national flag is []

Agencies New Delhi Days after the Bar Council of India (BCI) ordered State Bar Councils to freeze the enrolment of NALSARs entire 2026 graduating batch, only to withdraw the move following widespread criticism and a rebuke from the Supreme Court, BCI chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra has apologised to law students and said they must always []

PTI Chamoli (Uttarakhand) Rescuers on Saturday found one more dead inside a tunnel under construction inundated with water two days ago here, leading to the death of seven workers, with the clock ticking for the couple of workersstill inside. Twenty-two people were trapped inside the three-kilometre tunnel when the water rushed in around 7 pm []

Dr. Nandkumar M. Kamat Nobody who watched India through the 1990s decades of hijackings, the Parliament attack, 26/11, hundreds of soldiers lost quietly to infiltration would have predicted where the country stands today. Uri broke something in 2016, when surgical strikes first openly put punitive cross-border action on the table. Balakot broke further []

NT Reporter Mapusa Tourism and IT Minister Rohan Khaunte, in his Independence Day address at the Administrative Office in Bardez, outlined thegovernments vision of building a Viksit Goa by balancing economic development with the preservation of the states culture, heritage and identity. Khaunte said tourism would continue to remain the backbone of Goaseconomy, while stressing []