Manohar parrikar

The imposition of a fee on tourists taking a single photograph ranges from Rs 100 to Rs 500, in the guise of a ‘Swachhta tax’ by the Parra village panchayat, has been severely criticised by tourism industry stakeholders, who want the “unfair” trend to... read more

The recent reductions in GST rate will cost the Goa government Rs 100 crores. Reduction in GST rates for restaurants connected with hotels will only add to the burden. read more

The Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) will be executing the memorial’s work. read more

Ironically, the investment promotion board, the brainchild of former chief minister Manohar Parrikar, was set up to bypass red tapism and help the state improve its ‘ease of doing business’ ranking. read more

Department of Information and Publicity, in its press statement issued in the evening, wished people of Goa on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.It quoted late CM Parrikar as wishing people of the state on the occasion. read more

The time to abandon the NFU policy has not come yet. Instead, India should work for a global treaty on NFU that includes all the de jure and de facto nuclear weapon powers read more

Valmiki Naik, who led the protest against the casinos on Friday evening accused the Panaji MLA of never being serious about his assurance and demanded the removal of casinos from Goa altogether. read more

The future of working computers depends on Sanskrit because it is the only scientific language in the world. Even NASA agrees with this and has officially accepted this, said the HRD minister. read more

In December 2017, the government sanctioned an amount of Rs 23.55 lakh to Rahul Prabhudesai, a mountaineer attempting to scale Mount Everest in the 2018 spring-summer mountaineering season. read more

In December 2017, the Goa government sanctioned an amount of Rs 23.55 lakh to Rahul Prabhudesai, son of a Goa Forward Party leader and a mountaineer, attempting to scale Mount Everest in the 2018 spring-summer mountaineering season. read more

The four ministers were sworn in by Governor of Goa Mridula Sinha in a ceremony at the picturesque Raj Bhavan at Dona Paula in Panaji. read more

“Whatever has happened is not correct. This is not according to the principles and culture of the party we have set up. We will see what can be done to rectify it. I will take it up with the party president,” Rajendra Arlekar, a former environment minister... read more

The 10 legislators, who will not attract censure under the anti-defection law because they form two-thirds of the Congress in the state, were inducted into the BJP in the presence of working president JP Nadda and chief minister Pramod Sawant. read more

Utpal Parrikar was a contender for BJP ticket for assembly by-election here following his father’s death, but the BJP did not field him. Eventually, it was Congress’ Atanasio Monserratte who won the election in May. read more

Baraulia is among the two villages in Amethi – Hariharpur being the other – that were adopted by Sawant’s predecessor late Manohar Parrikar when he had become a Rajya Sabha MP from UP soon after being named the country’s defence minister. read more