The second edition of the Goa Bird Festival will be held from January 12 to 14 at Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary, Canacona. The State Forest department is organising the event with the support of Goa Tourism, the Goa Bird Conservation Network (GBCN) and Birderpics.com, said Ajai Saxena, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. Oceanic bird tours would be on offer. Goa is […]
» Read moreA MIG-29K fighter aircraft of the Navy with an trainee pilot crashed off the runway during takeoff at the Goa airport on Wednesday. “The pilot has ejected to safety. Fire on the aircraft is being extinguished,” a Navy officer said. This is the first accident involving the MIG-29k. The Navy operates 45 such aircraft and they fly off aircraft carrier […]
» Read moreTwenty-four rail passengers were hospitalised on Sunday due to food poisoning after they had breakfast on-board Indian Railways’ premium train Tejas Express between Goa and Mumbai. “A case of food poisoning was reported on train no. 22120 Tejas Express upon information from passengers. The train was stopped out of course at Chiplun railway station and treatment was given to passengers […]
» Read moreThe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday won a significant Delhi bypoll, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar emerged victorious in Panaji and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) clinched the Nandyal seat in Andhra Pradesh.
» Read moreThe BJP won two key seats in the Goa bypolls, with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane winning in Panaji and Valpoi, respectively. With these results, BJP, which doesn’t have a majority on its own in the Assembly, now has 14 seats in the 40-member House, and the coalition government that it heads has the support of […]
» Read moreAhead of the crucial assembly elections in Karnataka in 2018, one of the few States in which the Congress is still in power, the party leadership replaced senior leader Digvijaya Singh as in-charge of the State on Saturday with K.C. Venugopal. And in what is being read as a reflection of Mr. Singh’s failure to put together a Congress government […]
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