Panaji: The office of the North Goa collectorate on Thursday sealed the amusement rides set up at Mapusa for the popular Dev Bodgeshwar jatra, as the operator of the amusement rides, including the giant wheel, allegedly operated without mandatory clearances. The crackdown, authorities said, was taken in the interest of public safety. The North Goa
A popular Twitch streamer, Jynxzi, has achieved a significant milestone in his career by completing a challenge that very few streamers ever dare to attempt. The challenge? Going live on Twitch every day in the year 2025. Yes! The popular streamer has managed to complete the year without missing a single stream. The challenge has
Margao/Canacona/Bicholim: New Year’s celebrations were overshadowed by road accidents across Goa that claimed one life and left several people injured. Melari Ningappa Bewawadar, 28, from Jayantinagar, Karnataka, was killed in a self-accident on the Manohar Parrikar bypass in Canacona on Thursday morning. Police said he lost control of his motorcycle while travelling from Margao towards
A scientist has managed to decode one of the last Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts. When some scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea in 1946, they were deemed to be approximately 2,000 to 2,300 years old and contained ancient texts. They are believed to be a collection of Jewish manuscripts containing some of
Margao: Margao has been identified as one of 48 major cities across India where Indian Railways plans to double train origination capacity over the next 5 years. The expansion plan, targeting completion by 2030, aims to address the rapid growth in passenger travel demand and reduce congestion at busy stations nationwide, says a press note.
Three students of a government college in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala have been booked for ragging and voluntarily causing hurt, while a professor has been booked for sexual harassment of a 19-year-old woman who died during treatment on December 26, police said on Friday. The case was registered on Thursday following a complaint by the victim’s
AHMEDABAD: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested former Surendranagar district collector Rajendrakumar Patel in connection with a bribery-linked money laundering case. Patel, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 2015 batch, is the second civil servant to be arrested by ED in this case. ED and the state’s ACB have registered cases against Patel
Chandigarh, Punjab Health Minister Dr Balbir Singh on Friday said the ‘Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna’ to provide free cashless medical treatment of up to ₹10 lakh to every family in the state will be formally launched on January 15. Free cashless health treatment scheme to be rolled out in Punjab on Jan 15 The universal
NEW DELHI: India’s relations with neighbouring countries are guided by their behaviour and New Delhi has the right to defend the country’s citizens when a “bad neighbour” such as Pakistan decides to deliberately and persistently continue supporting terrorism, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. ‘My message to Bangladesh…’: Jaishankar’s revelation after visiting Dhaka for Khaleda
New Delhi, The National Biodiversity Authority has continued its series of ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ disbursements with the release of ₹45 lakh to Andhra Pradesh’s red sanders farmers, officials said on Friday. National Biodiversity Authority disburses ₹45 lakh to red sanders farmers from Andhra Pradesh With these disbursements through the Andhra Pradesh State Biodiversity Board