Goa Shacks

Pack your bags for Goa: An insider's guide to the hottest beaches, cultural experiences, must-try local dishes and thrilling nightlife.

Four labourers were killed and five others critically injured when a private bus rammed into two roadside shanties at an industrial estate in South Goa district, police said on Sunday.

Shacks on Goa's beaches will now have to mandatorily serve "fish curry-rice", a staple of the coastal state, along with other Indian and international cuisines, said tourism minister Rohan Khaunte on Sunday.

If you want to take a break from the beaches and shacks of South Goa and venture into the forests, then you should definitely pick this wildlife sanctuary in Goa.

The District Magistrate of North Goa has ordered the closure of serving and selling of liquor across liquor bars, pubs, shops, clubs, shacks or any establishment by 11.00 pm with immediate effect till the election Model Code of Conduct is in force,

In a partial relief to promoters of beach shacks along Goa's coastline, the Bombay High Court in Goa on Monday allowed the state government to start the formal process of allotment of beach shacks, while also directing the state government to not hand over final allotment letters until the hearing is concluded.

Even as Goa's tourism season is set to begin from October, the beach shack owners in the state are worried about their business, which is hanging in the balance after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently stayed the state beach shack policy.

With Goa's tourism season set to kick off just a couple of weeks later, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said that his government will ask the National Green Tribunal for permission to set up beach shacks along the coastline.

Goa's welcoming beach shacks might not be around to facilitate tourists when the tourism season begins next month, with the National Green Tribunal on Friday directing the state government to keep its beach shack policy on hold, until it submits the mandatory Coastal Zone Management plan.

The Bombay High Court in Goa on Friday convicted Samson D'Souza, a beach shack worker accused of sexually assaulting 15-year-old British teenager Scarlett Keeling and leaving her to die at Goa's Anjuna beach in 2008, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.

Hit by a decline in the number of tourists, the Goa tourism ministry is considering regulating food prices in restaurant and beach shacks and also keeping check on online booking sites that artificially escalate hotel and lodging room rates.

A group of men from Pune who were visiting Goa were arrested today for allegedly harassed a 16-year-old girl and beating up her brother.

Sunday night's Supermoon, and not cyclone Ockhi, was responsible for the rise in seawater levels, which damaged the state's coastline and beach shacks, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Wednesday.

The office of North Goa's district magistrate has done a preliminary assessment of the damage caused due to Cyclone Ockhi in the Pernem and Bardez talukas where several prominent beaches, including Morjim, Arambol, Candolim, Baga and Calangute, are located, an official release said today.

The unprecedented high tides due to cyclone Ockhi that flooded hundreds of beach shacks in Goa has given rise to a demand from the tourism industry for a re-think by the state authorities on the places for allocation of the beach shacks along the coast.

Pack your bags for Goa: An insider's guide to the hottest beaches, cultural experiences, must-try local dishes and thrilling nightlife.

Four labourers were killed and five others critically injured when a private bus rammed into two roadside shanties at an industrial estate in South Goa district, police said on Sunday.

Shacks on Goa's beaches will now have to mandatorily serve "fish curry-rice", a staple of the coastal state, along with other Indian and international cuisines, said tourism minister Rohan Khaunte on Sunday.

If you want to take a break from the beaches and shacks of South Goa and venture into the forests, then you should definitely pick this wildlife sanctuary in Goa.

The District Magistrate of North Goa has ordered the closure of serving and selling of liquor across liquor bars, pubs, shops, clubs, shacks or any establishment by 11.00 pm with immediate effect till the election Model Code of Conduct is in force,

In a partial relief to promoters of beach shacks along Goa's coastline, the Bombay High Court in Goa on Monday allowed the state government to start the formal process of allotment of beach shacks, while also directing the state government to not hand over final allotment letters until the hearing is concluded.

Even as Goa's tourism season is set to begin from October, the beach shack owners in the state are worried about their business, which is hanging in the balance after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently stayed the state beach shack policy.

With Goa's tourism season set to kick off just a couple of weeks later, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said that his government will ask the National Green Tribunal for permission to set up beach shacks along the coastline.

Goa's welcoming beach shacks might not be around to facilitate tourists when the tourism season begins next month, with the National Green Tribunal on Friday directing the state government to keep its beach shack policy on hold, until it submits the mandatory Coastal Zone Management plan.

The Bombay High Court in Goa on Friday convicted Samson D'Souza, a beach shack worker accused of sexually assaulting 15-year-old British teenager Scarlett Keeling and leaving her to die at Goa's Anjuna beach in 2008, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.

Hit by a decline in the number of tourists, the Goa tourism ministry is considering regulating food prices in restaurant and beach shacks and also keeping check on online booking sites that artificially escalate hotel and lodging room rates.

A group of men from Pune who were visiting Goa were arrested today for allegedly harassed a 16-year-old girl and beating up her brother.

Sunday night's Supermoon, and not cyclone Ockhi, was responsible for the rise in seawater levels, which damaged the state's coastline and beach shacks, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Wednesday.

The office of North Goa's district magistrate has done a preliminary assessment of the damage caused due to Cyclone Ockhi in the Pernem and Bardez talukas where several prominent beaches, including Morjim, Arambol, Candolim, Baga and Calangute, are located, an official release said today.

The unprecedented high tides due to cyclone Ockhi that flooded hundreds of beach shacks in Goa has given rise to a demand from the tourism industry for a re-think by the state authorities on the places for allocation of the beach shacks along the coast.