The Fatorda Block Congress Committee led by PCC general secretary Vijay Sardessai called on Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat and KTC Chairman Reginaldo Lourenco to unequivocally voice the opposition of the local Congress against any attempts to dump garbage for land filling near the KTC bus stand.

THE fate of the three notified special economic zones (SEZs) in Goa

On the occasion of World Earth Day, which was celebrated recently, Big 92.7 FM addressed key issues concerning the environment while increasing awareness on matters of global concern such as fuel conservation, water conservation, global warming, etc In an effort to increase awareness, Big 92.7 FM held a massive signature campaign across the state. In addition a candlelight rally was held in the evening to coincide with World Earth Day, starting from Kala Academy, winding its way right down to the municipal garden in Panjim.

Believe it or not, about 310 houses in Aldona do not have toilet facilities. Despite repeated efforts by a resident to highlight the issue, the Aldona panchayat has allegedly not enforced the need to have toilets in houses, while issuing occupancy certificates to the owners. Unhappy with the Aldona Panchayat for taking the issue lightly, residents passed a resolution at the gram sabha of Aldona on Sunday, stating that the panchayat should not issue occupancy certificates to new houses without proper toilet facilities.

Medical tourism in Goa gets a major fillip with Goa's Victor Hospitals and Medical Services and Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital (KLES) Belgaum collaborating to provide an all encompassed health care and educational services in medical tourism. To begin with, the joint venture will focus on super-speciality health care facilities in the field of cardiology and cardiac thoracic

The commencement of the controversial coal handling activities in Port town after nearly a gap of two-and-half months on Wednesday, has prompted the Mormugao Bachao Abhiyan (MBA) to submit a memorandum to Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), to stop activities at Berth No 10 and 11 immediately, if not would be forced to commence a peaceful agitation.

The proposal of the Task Force on the Regional Plan 2021 to identify eco-sensitive zones so as to protect forests, khazan lands and heritage sites from mining, large industries and real estate developments is a sensible one. The report of the task force has correctly stated that Goa is facing tremendous development pressure on its limited land resources, mainly as a result of property speculation and not owing to the natural growth of the population.

GreenGoa will organise a presentation and workshop on reusing and recycling waste on May 5, at Mineral Foundation, Velho building, Panjim, at 5:30pm. Tania Anselmo, a young environmentalist from Portugal who reuses waste creating useful items like jewellery, bags, purses etc in Lisbon will teach participants simple reulitization techniques of commonly found waste in Goa.

Claiming that the vector borne diseases are limited mostly to construction sites, the State Task Force on vector borne diseases, which held its maiden meeting today decided to focus on eliminating the diseases from the State. Addressing a press conference, after chairing the meeting of State Task Force Health Secretary Anand Prakash stated that though the diseases cannot be eradicated completely it can be controlled.

In a bid to collect data on Migration from Goa as well as into the State, NRI Affairs Department in collaboration with the Centre for Development Studies, the Department of Planning and Statistics, of the Government of Goa and the Xavier Centre of Historical research will conduct Goa Migration Monitoring Study. Disclosing this at a press conference, the NRI Commissioner Eduardo Faleiro said that the purpose of the study is to collect data on migration from and into Goa and analyze its impact on the social and economic situation of the State.