The Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Sripal Naik has advocated the need for planting more and more trees to maintain Goa green and said that "Paulonia" a new variety and one of world's

A public meeting has been called on Saturday at Char Rasta, Canacona to chalk out the future course of action to be taken against Penguin Alcohol Company for the alleged release of waste molasses in

The All India Fishermen Workers Federation (AIFWF) has called upon the Goa government to strictly enforce the marine regulation act which prohibits fishing by trawlers and purseiners within 5 km of

Forest Minister Prakash Phadte has stressed the need for tree plantation on the available land for the balanced ecology. He said, Goa, through a tiny State has 38 per cent forest cover and that

Trafic on the National Highway No 17 at Canacona was paralysed for nearly two hours as residents blocked the road opposite the taluka office on Wednesday morning. The residents, mostly from the

The ban on mechanised fishing till August 15 which had been imposed by the High Court in an ad-interim order passed last year, is now sought to be modified to July 31 by the Government of Goa/ In an

Leader of the Opposition, Luizinho Faleiro has asked the service institutions to launch a massive programme to eradicate plastic garbage in Goa and supplement the government efforts in this

The residents of Barcem and its adjoining villages in Quepem and Canacona talukas claim that drinking water in the area is no longer safe as some unscrupulous companies are "dumping molasses" into a

June this year saw Goa receive 40 per cent less rainfall than normal. So far Goa has received 62 cm of rain when the average was more than 100 cm in the last few years. In June 2000, the level

Reconstruction work of a village--Devgadh in Rajkot district of Gujarat which Goa has adopted, has begun in full swing after the Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar handed over a draft of Rs 1.10 crore