The 'Goa Transport Aggregator Guidelines, 2025' include mandatory health insurance, set tariffs, and licensing. Unions worry about job losses and loss of local identity, threatening protests.

Panaji: Goa’s bird checklist now records 497 species, highlighting the state’s exceptional avian diversity—nearly 40% of India’s total—in just 3,702 sq km. The 2025 update adds eight new ...

Taxi operators said the guidelines are very loosely defined and they apprehend that people from across the country will come to Goa and start operating taxis PANAJI: The Goa government has ...

According to police, the tourist, in a fit of rage, picked up a wooden stick with a metal clamp at one end and used it as a club to bludgeon security staff of the casino at around 3am A 25-year ...

Here, in north Goa’s Bicholim taluka, is the Shree Lairai Devi temple, where every year in April or May, people flock for rituals that culminate in the lighting of a bonfire from which coals are ...

Goa is studded with 100-400 year old villas, cottages and outhouses, with laterite walls and Mangalore-tiled roofs that have been carefully restored and reimagined into stores, restaurants, bars ...

These cultural festivals in Goa show you a new side of the susegad state. Photo: Pexels Goa might be famous for its sun-soaked beaches and legendary nightlife, but there's a lot more to the state ...

At least six people lost their lives and 55 others were injured in a stampede at a temple in Goa, where hundreds of Hindu devotees had gathered, a police official reported on Saturday. The ...

In light of the Goa temple stampede, the Goa’s Department of Tourism on Saturday announced the cancellation of the remainder of the ‘Spirit of Goa’ festival on not only May 3 but also 4.

Goa temple incident: Goa CM Pramod Sawant spoke about the temple festival stampede that took place in North Goa village in the wee hours of Saturday, killing at least six persons and 30 injured ...

A stampede during the Lairai Devi jatra in Shirgaon, North Goa, left at least six people dead and over 50 injured. The incident occurred at the revered Sree Devi Lairai temple, about 40 km from ...

The Goa government has published a draft of the Transport Aggregator Guidelines, 2025, under Section 67 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Issued on May 20, the guidelines lay out a regulatory ...