Forty-one Goan villages which presently lack banking facilities will be brought under the banking system in accordance with the announcement made by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in the budget speech.

Snehal Dias, 19, accused in the Naresh Dourado murder case, was remanded to five days police custody by the JMFC, Vasco, on Saturday, even as police recovered Dourados missing cellphone and laptop.

A massive turn-out of workers and citizens is expected at the oneday strike at Panaji on September 7, organized by the Goa convention of workers as part of the nationwide strike called by the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC).

Decrying the one-day strike by private bus owners, transport director Arun Desai said he had already initiated steps to solve their grievances and that all problems would be sorted out by December 2010.

Private buses will stay off the roads all over Goa on Monday, September 6, and there is no change in the decision of all Goa private bus owners association (AGPBOA) in that respect

A Mercedes car worth ` 50 lakh, stolen in Pune Maharashtra, was found abandoned next to the Old Secretariat complex in Panaji on Saturday morning.

On September 1, a delegation of pastors representing various churches in South Goa, submitted a petition to the South Goa collector G P Naik explaining the difficulties faced by Christians of other denominations (non-Catholics) in the absence of a burial ground.

The government will have to upgrade disaster management to a more professional level in the wake of its inadequate handling of the tar ball phenonmenon, Colva civic and consumer forum said.

As Goa gets ready to celebrate yet another Teachers Day, the government will almost certainly have another celebratory speech loaded with a long list of promises.

In the near future, Goa could avail of funds under the national agriculture innovation project to tide over instances of saline water entering agricultural land.

Life is slowly returning to normal on the Velsao coast and other beach stretches even as several truckloads of tar balls were carted away in the continuing clean-up operation on Saturday.

Almost a month-and-a-half after his disappearance, the crime branch has issued a red corner notice through Interpol against alleged Israeli drug dealer Yaniv Benaim alias Atala, fearing that he has fled the country.