Goa News

SME News, Friday, Feb 01, 2013
PANAJI: The state government of Goa has decided to put an end to purchasing power from Reliance Power Plant, from the next fiscal. This decision comes in the wake of high rates incurred for such purchases. Manohar Parrikar has made the announcement, the Chief Minister of the state. The agreement ...

SME News, Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013
PANAJI:  Over 1.8 million domestic tourists visited the state from April to December 2012, Goa's tourism ministry said Tuesday.   In a written reply tabled during the first assembly session of 2013, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said that 18,35,268 domestic tourists ...

SME News, Monday, Jan 28, 2013
PANAJI:  The Goa government is working on a financial package for people in the state's mining belt who have lost jobs or ancillary businesses following the ban on iron ore mining, Governor Bharat Vir Wanchoo announced Monday.   Every person rendered unemployed by the ...

SME News, Monday, Jan 28, 2013
PANAJI:  Buying fish for the rice plate has got dearer for Goans with prices escalating sharply due a strike by trawler owners.   Fishing trawler owners from Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka struck work Friday after the central government classified fishing as an industrial ...

SME News, Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013
PANAJI:  Star hotels and resorts in Goa could soon have pigs, cows and poultry to gobble up their garbage generated in-house.   Such "animal farms" operated by hotels is on the agenda of Francis Braganza, president of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa ...

SME News, Saturday, Jan 05, 2013
PANAJI:  The Goa government Friday launched the Griha Aadhar scheme, which will give a monthly allowance of Rs.1,000 to housewives to combat inflation.   Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar disbursed cheques of Rs.1,000 to beneficiaries under the scheme at a function here Friday ...

SME News, Friday, Dec 28, 2012
PANAJI:  The church in Goa Friday expressed concern about thousands of mining workers who are facing the axe following a Supreme Court-enforced mining ban in the state.   "While the church cannot but condemn any illegalities in mining and the plunder of the land, her ...

SME News, Friday, Dec 28, 2012
NEW DELHI:  Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar Thursday sought a special economic package from the central government for people affected by the ban on the mining industry in the state.   "The centre should sanction a special financial package for people whose ...

SME News, Thursday, Dec 20, 2012
MUMBAI:  Playboy, the entertainment company tagged ‘Adult’ is now coming up with a brand new ‘clean’ image in India  with its first Beach Cafe at Goa. Amid a licensing contract, PB Lifestyle has introduced the brand Playboy in the country and company is planning to ...

SME News, Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012
PANAJI: State Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has assured 'food security' to all those families affected by the stoppage of mining activity in the state. The halt is expected to impact over three lakh people dependent on it.   While addressing the 52nd Goa Liberation Day at ...

SME News, Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012
PANAJI:  A lot of dirty corruption is still on in the lower levels of governance in Goa, although overall it has been reduced by 50 percent, said Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar Wednesday.   Speaking at the Goa Liberation Day rally in the state capital, Parrikar said that ...

SME News, Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012
PANAJI:  Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Goa Dec 20 to assess the impact of the mining ban in the state, a state Congress leader said Monday.     Speaking to reporters in Panaji, state Congress president Subhash Shirodkar said Rahul Gandhi would ...

SME News, Monday, Dec 17, 2012
PANAJI:  Goa loves its fish fried and curried. But fishermen in this coastal state are now fuming over trawlers from Karnataka and Maharashtra "poaching" in the state's waters.   After recent incidents of high-powered boats from neighbouring states coming in by ...

SME News, Thursday, Dec 13, 2012
PANAJI:  Tourist numbers in Goa are expected to swell to 35 lakh during the forthcoming season, state Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said Wednesday.   Speaking to reporters at the state secretariat, Parulekar said domestic tourists visited Goa in droves in the period from ...

SME News, Monday, Dec 10, 2012
PANAJI:  A Supreme Court-appointed committee has virtually confirmed the massive illegal mining scam in Goa, vindicating anti-mining activists who have been campaigning against the menace for over a decade.   After the central empowered committee (CEC) submitted a report to ...