A ruling party legislator has said that drug runners had a grip over coastal Goa and that they would soon have enough clout to even shoot the state’s chief minister and home minister.
Agnelo Fernandes, Congress legislator from Calangute, arguably Goa’s most popular tourism hub, said late Monday that the state police had ‘miserably failed to [...]
Panaji, Nov 13 (IANS) As many as 68 fishermen were still missing after being trapped in Cyclone Phyan which passed through the Arabian Sea earlier this weekback, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said here Friday.
‘The 68 fishermen were on board four fishing trawlers and one canoe, which were caught in Phyan. The government will give [...]
Ahmedabad/Panaji, Nov 11 (IANS) About 80 fishing trawlers, with an average of 10 men in each, are missing in cyclone-hit Arabian Sea, organisations of fishermen along India’s west coast said Wednesday.
As Cyclone Phyan intensified and tore northwards, slated to make landfall along the north Maharashtra-south Gujarat coast late Wednesday night, there were reports of boats [...]
Panaji, Nov 11 (IANS) Weeks after Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik consistently denied the sale of drugs in the state, a senior police official has admitted that there could be a possible increase in the narcotics trade and rave parties during the forthcoming tourist season.
The official said that Russians, Africans and Indians too were involved [...]
Panjim, Oct 15 (ANI): Goa Police on Thursday claimed a breakthrough in the serial killing case, with the arrest of a person.
Police said that Thursday’s arrest is in connection with the four mysterious deaths.
In last five days Goa Police recovered ten [...]
Panaji, Sep 19 (IANS) Twenty tourists, including three medical students from Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar town and a family from Delhi, were saved by lifeguards from drowning off the popular Baga beach along the north Goa coast Saturday.
The tourists, three of whom were allegedly drunk, were caught in the dangerous riptide which swept them off their feet [...]
