Facing flak from local NGOs over the failure on the garbage front, the Colva village Panchayat has set in motion an exercise to put a garbage collection and disposal mechanism in place in the tourist village.
With the Salcete Block Development Office adopting Colva village along Salcete

Even as the draft Concession agreement to be inked between the Margao Municipal Council and Fomento is undergoing final touches, questions are raised whether it would finally cost the civic body Rs 12 crore to tackle the waste at Sonsodo for the next 25 years.
Fomento had bagged the tender for the treatment of waste and construction of land fill site for Rs 7.31 crore.

In a move which may put hospitals, nursing homes and medical institutions in a tight corner, the Margao Municipal Council on Monday issued a note asking all establishments generating bio-medical waste to stop disposing off the waste within the jurisdiction of the civic body with immediate effect.
MMC Chief Officer Prasanna Acharya told Herald that it is not the look out of the civic body how the

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat

Even as the city of Margao looks forward to the signing of the concession agreement between the Margao Municipal Council and Fomento, which will set into motion the plan to dispose off the city

The Margao Municipal Council appears not only looking forward to sign the Concession agreement with Fomento to dispose off the city

Caurem villagers under the banner of Caurem Adivasi Bachao Samiti on Thursday sought the intervention of the Chief Minister and the Indian Bureau of Mines to stop the mining operation at the Devapan Mine immediately.

The villagers called on the Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat at his Malbhat residence here this morning and impressed upon him the need to stop the operation with immediate effect.

Strange it may seem, but true.

Environmentalists and social activists on Tuesday blamed the authorities concerned for turning a Nelson

SGPDA Chairman Mauvin Godinho has said the planning body will put in place the comprehensive development plan for Margao city after taking the public views into account.

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