Goa police seize 4.3 kg cocaine, arrest 3 people including husband, wife

India, April 15 -- The Goa Police Crime Branch has seized 4.32 kg cocaine worth Rs.43.2 crore from the custody of three people, including a husband-wife duo, who had concealed the consignment in choco... Read More

Goa CM justifies 'Housie' ban as state football association calls for a rethink

India, April 14 -- Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday defended his government's decision to ban the popular community game 'Housie' (also known as Tambola). A popular game of chance, Housie, ... Read More

Goa minister sees red over nod to private jetty, says will raise with CM

India, April 14 -- Goa tourism minister Rohan Khaunte has redflagged an "approval" granted to a proposed Rs.8-crore yacht jetty in Penha da Franca, complaining that he and other local authorities were... Read More

44.15% of Goa's forest cover 'very highly susceptible' to fires: Study

India, April 14 -- As much as 1,077.7 sq km or 44.15% of Goa's forest cover is "very highly susceptible", 491.58 sq km (21.35%) "highly susceptible", and 543 sq km (15.62%) moderately susceptible to f... Read More

Goa activists team up with project-affected Khanapur farmers over Mahadayi project

India, April 10 -- Activists from Goa who have been opposing the Kalasa Banduri project have reached out to farmers in north Karnataka's Khanapur region after they spoke out against the irrigation pro... Read More

Nigerian national named in 2019 drug trafficking case discharged by Goa court

India, April 8 -- A Goa court has discharged a Nigerian national who was arrested by the Goa police on charges of drug trafficking along with two others in 2019. Additional sessions judge Kshama M Jo... Read More

Now only police inspectors with body cams can issue traffic challans in Goa: CM

India, April 4 -- The Goa government on Friday barred subordinate police officers from handing out tickets or challans for traffic violations, saying that henceforth only inspector-rank police officer... Read More

Kazakh national among 3 arrested for trafficking workers for cyber crime centres

India, March 28 -- Three men including a Kazakh national of Chinese origin have been arrested for allegedly cheating people into working for cyber crime centres in Thailand, the Goa Police said. The ... Read More

From April 1, Goa hotels have to share tourist demographic data via new webpage

India, March 27 -- The Goa Tourism Department has made it mandatory from April 1 for hotels in the state to upload data about its guests to a web-based software to help the department generate "real t... Read More

ASI to document Old Goa site after cannonballs found during excavation

India, March 24 -- The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Monday said it would document a site close to the Old Goa heritage complex, where excavation work being undertaken for the construction o... Read More

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