Goa Port

The USA's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) conducted a Cooperative Deployment (CODEP) with the Indian Navy following the ship's port visit to Goa, officials said today.

A group of 100 American tourists who arrived at Mormugao Port in Goa could not proceed on a sight-seeing trip of the coastal state after irate taxi operators stopped them from boarding designated buses, following which police began a probe.

Three labourers died in a blast in an under-maintenance ammonia tank at a Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd (ZACL) plant in the port town of Vasco, South Goa on Tuesday, a state cabinet minister said.

A cruise ship, Cordelia, on which 66 of the over 2,000 people on board tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday has been sent back to Mumbai from a port in Goa, news agency PTI reported this morning.

Nightlife in Goa should not be allowed to resume till the COVID-19 situation in India comes under control, state Ports Minister and BJP leader Michael Lobo said on Monday as he stressed the need to protect the lives of people.

Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) has notified jobs in dental college, medical college, directorate of health services, captain of ports department, directorate of higher education.

Goa is on the boil over three infrastructure projects - the expansion of a railway track and highway, and a new power line - that residents of the state believe will harm its pristine forests and pollute its picturesque towns with coal dust

The Goa tourism industry can resume only after the lockdown is lifted and the coronavirus situation is completely under control in the country, state Ports Minister Michael Lobo has said.

The Congress on Friday demanded that Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant should sack his cabinet minister Milind Naik for allowing naphtha-laden ship, allegedly from Pakistan, to be anchored in Mormugao Port Trust.

An unmanned cargo ship loaded with naphtha is drifting towards the Raj Bhavan near Panaji from close to Mormugao Port Trust, but Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday said there was no need to panic.

Spanish Navy ship 'Mendez Nunez' arrived at Goa's Mormugao Port on Thursday as part of naval diplomacy between the European country and India, an official said.

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.

A case was filed against a creche operator in the port town of Vasco on Tuesday for injuring a nine-year-old boy, police said.

The Goa Police Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old man of South Goa's Vasco port town for posting a fake news in Facebook on Tuesday, which claimed that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is currently being treated for a pancreatic illness in the United States, has died.

Goa issued an alert on Friday to all the vessels and casinos operating off the state's coast following an intelligence input about possible arrival of terrorists on board a fishing trawler, the state's ports minister said.

The USA's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) conducted a Cooperative Deployment (CODEP) with the Indian Navy following the ship's port visit to Goa, officials said today.

A group of 100 American tourists who arrived at Mormugao Port in Goa could not proceed on a sight-seeing trip of the coastal state after irate taxi operators stopped them from boarding designated buses, following which police began a probe.

Three labourers died in a blast in an under-maintenance ammonia tank at a Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd (ZACL) plant in the port town of Vasco, South Goa on Tuesday, a state cabinet minister said.

A cruise ship, Cordelia, on which 66 of the over 2,000 people on board tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday has been sent back to Mumbai from a port in Goa, news agency PTI reported this morning.

Nightlife in Goa should not be allowed to resume till the COVID-19 situation in India comes under control, state Ports Minister and BJP leader Michael Lobo said on Monday as he stressed the need to protect the lives of people.

Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) has notified jobs in dental college, medical college, directorate of health services, captain of ports department, directorate of higher education.

Goa is on the boil over three infrastructure projects - the expansion of a railway track and highway, and a new power line - that residents of the state believe will harm its pristine forests and pollute its picturesque towns with coal dust

The Goa tourism industry can resume only after the lockdown is lifted and the coronavirus situation is completely under control in the country, state Ports Minister Michael Lobo has said.

The Congress on Friday demanded that Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant should sack his cabinet minister Milind Naik for allowing naphtha-laden ship, allegedly from Pakistan, to be anchored in Mormugao Port Trust.

An unmanned cargo ship loaded with naphtha is drifting towards the Raj Bhavan near Panaji from close to Mormugao Port Trust, but Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday said there was no need to panic.

Spanish Navy ship 'Mendez Nunez' arrived at Goa's Mormugao Port on Thursday as part of naval diplomacy between the European country and India, an official said.

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.

A case was filed against a creche operator in the port town of Vasco on Tuesday for injuring a nine-year-old boy, police said.

The Goa Police Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old man of South Goa's Vasco port town for posting a fake news in Facebook on Tuesday, which claimed that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is currently being treated for a pancreatic illness in the United States, has died.

Goa issued an alert on Friday to all the vessels and casinos operating off the state's coast following an intelligence input about possible arrival of terrorists on board a fishing trawler, the state's ports minister said.