Goa Islands

Amid row over the distasteful remarks by Maldivian ministers and government officials against PM Modi over his recent visit to Lakshadweep, Indian travel company EaseMyTrip reiterated its stand to suspend all bookings to island nation from January 8.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Uttarakhand in the next fortnight, officials said on Monday.

The navy said it has had to cancel its plan to unfurl the national flag on Sao Jacinto island in Goa on Independence Day after residents objected to it, after which Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant requested the navy to go ahead with the programme.

Normal life has been thrown out of gear in Goa after heavy rain for over a week. Several people were stranded at Diwar Island near Panaji due to flooding in the area. Eight buses were stuck near Goa's border with Karnataka due to the heavy rain.

A major accident was averted on Thursday evening after boat operators and lifeguards rescued nearly 20 persons who were sailing in a recreational boat, which started taking in water near Bat island located off the port town of Vasco, officials of a private lifeguard service said.

India's only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which had started showing activity in the year 1991 after being dormant for over 150 years has once again started spewing ash, the researchers at Goa based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) said on Friday.

Objecting to a comment made by a top Indian Navy officer on Friday about security risk posed by islands off Goa's coast, the Congress MP Shantaram Naik on Saturday accused the navy of trying to raise the security bogey as a pretext to "take control over the precious land".

Actress Gul Panag is among the several participants who will run in the annual Goa River Marathon to be held on December 11 in the port town of Vasco

Amid row over the distasteful remarks by Maldivian ministers and government officials against PM Modi over his recent visit to Lakshadweep, Indian travel company EaseMyTrip reiterated its stand to suspend all bookings to island nation from January 8.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Uttarakhand in the next fortnight, officials said on Monday.

The navy said it has had to cancel its plan to unfurl the national flag on Sao Jacinto island in Goa on Independence Day after residents objected to it, after which Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant requested the navy to go ahead with the programme.

Normal life has been thrown out of gear in Goa after heavy rain for over a week. Several people were stranded at Diwar Island near Panaji due to flooding in the area. Eight buses were stuck near Goa's border with Karnataka due to the heavy rain.

A major accident was averted on Thursday evening after boat operators and lifeguards rescued nearly 20 persons who were sailing in a recreational boat, which started taking in water near Bat island located off the port town of Vasco, officials of a private lifeguard service said.

India's only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which had started showing activity in the year 1991 after being dormant for over 150 years has once again started spewing ash, the researchers at Goa based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) said on Friday.

Objecting to a comment made by a top Indian Navy officer on Friday about security risk posed by islands off Goa's coast, the Congress MP Shantaram Naik on Saturday accused the navy of trying to raise the security bogey as a pretext to "take control over the precious land".

Actress Gul Panag is among the several participants who will run in the annual Goa River Marathon to be held on December 11 in the port town of Vasco