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Panaji: Agriculture minister Ravi Naik, a two-time former chief minister, died early on Wednesday at 79. CM Pramod Sawant told TOI that Naik suffered a heart attack at home, and was shifted to a private hospital in Ponda, where he breathed his last. His body was then shifted to his Ponda residence, where people began streaming in to pay their last respects.He is survived by his wife, two sons, daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren. "A stalwart of Goan politics, his decades of dedicated servi ...Read More >
Panaji: With the demise of agriculture minister Ravi Naik, political activity picked up pace in the state as MLAs covet the vacant cabinet berth, reports Murari Shetye.Ponda had four ministers when BJP formed govt in 2022 -- WRD minister Subhash Shirodkar, power minister Ramkrishna 'Sudin' Dhavalikar, former art and culture minister Govind Gaude and Naik. After Naik's death, the number of cabinet berths in Ponda taluka dropped to 50%.On June 18, CM Pramod Sawant dropped Gaude from his cabinet af ...Read More >
Ponda: Only once during the hour-long funeral ceremony of minister and former chief minister Ravi Naik did any mourner wail, albeit briefly. It was not because the hundreds who had gathered were not fond of Naik, but because they wanted to bid a farewell befitting his jovial persona.At the funeral held on the hillock in front of Naik's house, an exception was made. Speeches by CM Pramod Sawant, Union minister of state Shripad Naik and others preceded the last rites. Every time a speaker sang his ...Read More >
Panaji: Goa has rolled out a clean energy roadmap 2050 towards building a clean, green, and sustainable Goa. Chief minister Pramod Sawant inaugurated the workshop for the implementation of the roadmap on Wednesday, highlighting key launches such as the Goa Renewable Energy Capacity Planning, the Net Positive Panchayat (NPP) Initiative, India's first programme aimed at making every panchayat energy self-sufficient, and an MoU with the SELCO Foundation to solarise healthcare facilities across the ...Read More >
Panaji, Oct 1 (PTI) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday praised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for its "century-long service and dedication towards nation-building" and its role in "shaping India's cultural ethos". In a social media post, he also hailed the release of a special postage stamp and a commemorative coin by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to mark the centenary of the RSS. It is for the first time in independent India's history that the image of Bharat Mata has feature ...Read More >
Panaji, Sep 27 (PTI) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma at his official residence here. Sharma is in Goa to attend the third edition of the Digital Democracy Dialogue, organised by the Pune-based Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini. The leaders met at the Goa chief minister's official residence in Altinho. In a post on X after the meeting, Sawant said he was "delighted to receive traditional garments made from Kosa silk, crafted from the natural treasur ...Read More >
Panaji (Goa) [India], September 26 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant paid tribute to TB Cunha on his death anniversary at Azad Maidan, Panaji, remembering him as a hero of the Goa freedom struggle. Speaking to the reporters, Pramod Sawant said, "Today is the death anniversary of TB Cunha, the hero of the Goa freedom struggle movement. On behalf of Goa and the people of Goa, I pay my respects to him... Goa will always remember him..." Also Read | Tata AIG Suspends Cashless Payments at Max ...Read More >
Panaji (Goa) [India], September 26 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant paid tribute to TB Cunha on his death anniversary at Azad Maidan, Panaji, remembering him as a hero of the Goa freedom struggle. Speaking to the reporters, Pramod Sawant said, "Today is the death anniversary of TB Cunha, the hero of the Goa freedom struggle movement. On behalf of Goa and the people of Goa, I pay my respects to him... Goa will always remember him..." TB Cunha is popularly known as the "Father of Goan nat ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to May 2019, when EC had changed the guidelines to allow EVM counting to proceed regardless of postal ballot counting stage. The 2019 change did not rule out chances ...Read More >
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday that Sanvordem BJP MLA Ganesh Gaonkar will win the election to the post of speaker, the election to which will take place on Thursday. Gaonkar filed his nomination on Tuesday in the presence of Sawant, ministers, and coalition MLAs."We have 33 MLAs, and we will win the election. I congratulate Gaonkar," he said. Wednesday is the last day to file nominations.Gaonkar and Quepem Congress MLA Altone D'Costa -- who filed his nomination last week -- ...Read More >
Panaji: Two-time Sanvordem BJP MLA, Ganesh Gaonkar, was elected as the new speaker of the assembly on Thursday. He secured 32 votes against seven.Shortly after getting elected, Gaonkar said he would apprise all members of the rule book for the efficient functioning of the House. "We are here to discuss and resolve public issues as per the rule book," he said.Chief minister Pramod Sawant congratulated Gaonkar on behalf of his party and the members of the House. "I am confident justice will be don ...Read More >
Nair's death was the fifth such incident reported at BITS Pilani's campus near Vasco town since December 2024. Earlier, students Om Priyan Singh (December 2024), Atharv Desai (March 2025), Krishna Kasera (May 2025) and Kushagra Jain (August 2025) were found dead in their respective hostel rooms. Superintendent of Police (South) Tikam Singh Verma said that the preliminary report has suggested the presence of drugs in Nair's system, and an investigation is underway in the matter. Strict vigilanc ...Read More >
Panaji: CM Pramod Sawant on Friday said that police are still investigating the supply and use of drugs that led to the death of a student at BITS Pilani's Goa campus. The CM's statement comes just after SP (South) Tikam Singh Verma said that narcotics were found in the blood of the dead student during preliminary tests."Investigation is on," was Sawant's terse reply when reporters asked him about govt's failure to prevent drugs from entering educational institutes.The opposition parties were qu ...Read More >
Vasco: A 19-year-old student of BITS Pilani, Goa campus, Rishi Nair from Bengaluru was found dead in his hostel room on Thursday. This is the fifth student death recorded in 10 months on the campus and the second within a month.Police said Rishi went into a depression after his girlfriend had died by suicide two and a half months ago in Hyderabad, and his parents shifted him to the Goa campus. On Thursday morning, his parents who also shifted along with him to Goa, tried to get in touch with Ris ...Read More >
Golaghat (Assam) [India], August 12 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and his Assamese counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday attended the passing out parade of 700 recruits of the Goa Police from the 1st, 2nd & 3rd India Reserve Battalions at Lachit Barphukan Police Academy, in Assam Dergaon. Speaking to the reporters, Goa CM Pramod Sawant thanked Himanta Biswa Sarma for training Goa police recruits in Assam police academy. I thank Himanta Biswa Sarma that on a request from the Goa ...Read More >
Dergaon (Assam), Aug 12 (PTI) A total of 700 recruits of the Goa Police completed their basic training at the Lachit Barphukan Police Academy (LBPA) in Assam's Golaghat district on Tuesday, as chief ministers of both the states called for increased cooperation between the people. After Manipur, Goa is the second state to have sent its personnel for training at this premier academy here. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Goa counterpart Pramod Sawant attended the passing out para ...Read More >
A refund scheme for returned bottles and fines for littering are also being planned to curb public nuisance Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday told the legislative assembly that the state government was considering a ban on the sale of glass liquor bottles near beaches and replacing them with cans amid concerns over tourists getting injured by shards of broken glass. He was responding to a question raised by BJP MLA Michael Lobo, who complained that tourists have been getting ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) GST officers have uncovered fake input tax credit (ITC) claims of Rs 15,851 crore in the April-June quarter of current fiscal, a 29 per cent jump over the year-ago period, even though the number of fake firms detection was less Y-o-Y, officials said. The total number of fake firms detected by central and state GST officers during the first quarter of FY26 stood at 3,558, less than 3,840 such entities detected in the same quarter of FY25. panel of state finance ministers ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) GST officers have uncovered fake input tax credit (ITC) claims of ₹15,851 crore in the April-June quarter of current fiscal, a 29 per cent jump over the year-ago period, even though the number of fake firms detection was less Y-o-Y, officials said. The total number of fake firms detected by central and state GST officers during the first quarter of FY26 stood at 3,558, less than 3,840 such entities detected in the same quarter of FY25. panel of state finance ministers, ...Read More >
The Goa government will on Monday launch the first Roll on-Roll off (Ro-Ro) service in the Mandovi river connecting Chorao island to capital city Panaji, replacing the conventional ferry boats, a state minister has said. The travel time from the island to mainland with the Ro-Ro service would be just 12 minutes, as against 30 minutes taken by the conventional ferry boats, state River Navigation Department Minister Subhash Phal Desai told PTI. The Ro-Ro ferry boats have a facility to drive in f ...Read More >
Former Union civil aviation minister Raju, who belongs to the erstwhile Vizianagaram royal family, joined hands with N T Rama Rao when he launched TDP in 1982-8 Former Union minister Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju, who has been appointed as the Governor of Goa Monday, is one of the senior-most leaders of N Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP, a key ally of the BJP-led NDA. Raju, 74, is a scion of the erstwhile Pusapati royal family of Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh. He started his political innings in 197 ...Read More >
Panaji: Goa govt has constituted a council for artificial intelligence (AI) to advise state govt on a six-month AI roadmap for the state. The council, which includes chief executive officers of several international companies, will be formed over the next six months.Goa's AI roadmap will focus on skill development, funding requirements, govt policy and infrastructure requirements, and finally, a plan to attract other AI-first startups to Goa. "We want to introduce AI at the school level. The foc ...Read More >
Panaji, Jul 14 (PTI) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday launched the Roll on-Roll off (Ro-Ro) service in the Mandovi River, connecting Chorao island to the capital city Panaji. Introduced by the state river navigation department, the service is being operated by a private player on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) basis. Sawant launched the service in the presence of State River Navigation Department Minister Subhash Phal Desai and others. Speaking on the occasion, the chief minist ...Read More >
Panaji, Jul 11 (PTI) Goa will make efforts to promote MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions), as well as spiritual, sports-based, and wellness tourism in the coastal state, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said. Chairing an inter-departmental meeting with key stakeholders and representatives from the sector at the secretariat here on Thursday, he said the state government has taken a serious note of the concerns raised by the tourism industry. "Goa is already witnessing a po ...Read More >
Panaji: Union govt sanctioned Rs 300 crore for state govt towards special assistance (loan) under part IX of the Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment, 2025-26. It said the state must ensure there is no duplication in funding of the capital projects approved under the scheme, either with the funds provided by Govt of India or state govt."In case of unavoidable changes in the specific projects for which funds are being released, state govt shall seek the approval of Govt ...Read More >
Panaji: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday chaired a meeting of the group of ministers (GoM) on goods and services tax (GST) revenue analysis to review state-wise revenue trends and identify actionable strategies for improved GST collections. The meeting held in New Delhi also discussed sector-specific tax leakages and corrective action to curb over Rs 2 lakh crore input tax credit (ITC) frauds. The GoM identified ITC fraud as a major issue under GST, and states suggested various measures t ...Read More >
Sanguem : Supporting the Government of Goa's inclusive governance drive, the Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communications (ITE&C) under the leadership of Hon'ble Minister Shri. Rohan A. Khaunte spearheaded digital inclusion efforts at the Awareness & Benefit Saturation Camp held in Sanguem, as part of the nationwide "Dharti Aaba Janbhagidari Abhiyan" -- India's largest tribal empowerment campaign led by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. As part of the initiative, the Departm ...Read More >
Anantapur: State finance minister Payyavula Keshav emphasised the need for real-time GST data access across states to effectively curb tax evasion and implement best practices using Artificial Intelligence and inter-departmental coordination. He was speaking during a virtual meeting of the Committee of Ministers on GST Reforms, formed by the Central government. The prestigious committee met virtually on Friday, with the session chaired by Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant, from the NIC buildi ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Group of Ministers (GoM) on goods and services tax (GST) revenue analysis met Friday to discuss falling collections trends in some large states and measures to curb input credit frauds and fake invoices which has resulted in revenue loss worth Rs 2 lakh crore over years. The GoM, chaired by Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, will meet again to decide detailed and technology based measures to curb fraudulent practices ahead of the next GST council meeting. "Chaired a meeting of the ...Read More >
Panaji: Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has decided to empanel agencies for door-to-door collection of waste and transportation to ensure consistency and accountability across the state for the scientific disposal of waste.GWMC said that a framework for the state-wide empanelment of agencies will be developed for door-to-door waste collection and transportation, including the collection of waste from commercial establishments and industries.Uniform guidelines and performance standards fo ...Read More >
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