One child abused every three days in Goa: Parrikar
July 27th, 2012 - 3:44 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 27 (IANS) One minor has been abused every three days in Goa until June this year, while in 2011 one child was abused every four days, according to ... Read more...
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Goa to attract ocean cruise liners
April 5th, 2012 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 5 (IANS) Goa could soon be a leading ocean cruise stopover, with a dedicated berth being developed at its only major port, a senior official said Thursday.Mormugao Port ... Read more...
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Facelift of two popular Goa beaches to cost Rs.10 crore
March 22nd, 2012 - 7:57 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 22 (IANS) Giving a facelift to two of Goa's most popular beaches will cost more than Rs.10 crore (Rs.100 million), says a report.In the Economic Survey report tabled ... Read more...
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Goa government urged to rectify land use plan
March 15th, 2012 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 15 (IANS) Civil society groups in Goa have petitioned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government to rectify the controversial Regional Plan 2021 notified by the previous ... Read more...
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‘Plans to convert Goa into Hong Kong an insult’
February 28th, 2012 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 28 (IANS) Without taking names, the Catholic church in Goa has lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress for promising to convert Goa ... Read more...
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Russians, Israelis have ‘occupied’ Goa’s coastal villages: Congress
February 21st, 2012 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 21 (IANS) Russians and Israelis have 'occupied' certain coastal villages in Goa and the trend needs to be resisted, Congress Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik said Tuesday."Russians and ... Read more...
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Mamata wants Hong Kong style ‘financial district’ in Goa
February 6th, 2012 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may be opposed to special economic zones (SEZ) as well as foreign investment in civil aviation and retail, but ... Read more...
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Poll strictures could hurt Goa’s tourism season
January 24th, 2012 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 24 (IANS) The forthcoming assembly polls in Goa have put the state's tourism season in peril.A top tourism body in Goa has voiced irritation at the decision taken ... Read more...
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Sex workers rescued from Goa nightclub
December 5th, 2011 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 5 (IANS) Fourteen commercial sex workers were rescued by Goa Police from a famous nightclub at the popular beach village of Calangute following a raid Monday, an official ... Read more...
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Coconut trees, the next adventure sport platform?
October 24th, 2011 - 4:43 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 24 (IANS) Coconut trees possess great potential as a platform for adventure sports in Goa, a state known primarily for beach tourism, a top adventure sports professional said.
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India can tap booming gay tourism sector: Tour promoter
October 21st, 2011 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 21 (IANS) India can close its eyes and miss the global gay tourism bus, an international gay tour promoter said here Friday even as the Goa government unceremoniously ... Read more...
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Goa wants to push tourists towards hinterland
August 24th, 2011 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Aug 24 (IANS) Beach tourism had reached saturation point and the government now wants tourists to head to the hinterland to discover the state's relatively unknown wonders, a senior ... Read more...
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Thailand, Goa join hands to promote tourism
August 13th, 2011 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Aug 13 (IANS) Thailand and Goa, both top beach tourism destinations in Asia, will join hands at mutually promoting each other during the Goa International Travel Mart (GITM), ... Read more...
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The new ’spicy’ face of Goa’s monsoon tourism
July 24th, 2011 - 12:18 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 24 (IANS) Now you can 'spice' up your trip to Goa in the monsoons - not by going to a beach but by heading for a spice farm ... Read more...
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Karnataka recreating its own ‘Goa beach’
April 13th, 2011 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 13 (IANS) Nearly 300 km from Goa's southernmost beach of Agonda, Karnataka is in the process of recreating a "Goa beach" of its own.The difference, according to officials, ... Read more...
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Proceedings against suspended cop dropped
March 31st, 2011 - 5:31 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 31 (IANS) Goa Police have dropped departmental action against a police inspector who was suspended for dereliction of duty during a high terror alert in 2008.Home Minister Ravi ... Read more...
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Russians top Goa casino employees, says minister
March 31st, 2011 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 31 (IANS) Russians top the number of foreigners employed in casinos, while Nepalis head the list of foreign nationals arrested in drug cases in Goa, according to home ... Read more...
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43 foreigners overstayed, 7 Nigerians missing: Goa minister
March 19th, 2011 - 12:32 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 19 (IANS) Forty-three foreigners, including 13 Nigerians and 10 Russians, have been arrested for overstaying in Goa, while seven Nigerians have disappeared since the last one year, a ... Read more...
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Lara-Mahesh wedding: Time to highlight Goa’s disappeared beach
February 18th, 2011 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 18 (IANS) A walk on the Sinquerim beach may be what Bollywood heart-throb Lara Dutta and tennis pro Mahesh Bhupathi look forward to after their wedding here Saturday. But ... Read more...
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US-based stakeholders study Goa’s tourism potential
January 13th, 2011 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 13 (IANS) After playing a holiday home to European tourists for nearly four decades, Goa is now in the cross-hairs of the American tourism industry. A 34-member delegation of the ... Read more...
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India can learn beach tourism from Cyprus: Selja
October 26th, 2010 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Cyprus may be a small country but India can learn a lot from it on promoting beach tourism, Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said Tuesday.At a meeting with ... Read more...
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India, Cyprus exchange views to promote tourism
October 26th, 2010 - 4:36 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): India and Cyprus on Tuesday exchanged ideas in the tourism sector with a view to promote tourism between the two nations.A four-member delegation led by Cyprus Commerce ... Read more...
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Dope on beaches: Karnataka does not want to go the Goa way
October 13th, 2010 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 13 (IANS) Karnataka does not want to go the Goa way, as far as drug abuse on its beaches is concerned, a top Karnataka tourism official told reporters here highlighting ... Read more...
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‘Maximum tourists from Britain to visit Goa this year’
October 1st, 2010 - 11:29 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 1 (IANS) Britain tops the list of countries sending tourists by charter flights to Goa this year, an industry official said Friday.According to the Travel and Tourism Association of ... Read more...
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Goa media urged to overlook tourism-related misadventures
August 11th, 2010 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Aug 11 (IANS) With sensational scandal after scandal tumbling out in Goa, the state tourism department is losing sleep over the large doses of adverse publicity received by the beach tourism-oriented ... Read more...
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Now horse racing to be promoted in Goa
August 11th, 2010 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Aug 11 (IANS) After gaining reputation as the casino capital of India, Goa is now 'taking bets' on becoming a horse racing destination, according to a top tourism official.
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‘Night before death Scarlett was singing, talking about stars’
July 29th, 2010 - 10:20 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 29 (IANS) Hours before Scarlett Keeling was sexually assaulted and murdered at Anjuna beach two years ago, the 15-year-old was singing, talking about the stars and wanted to hear music, ... Read more...
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Hilly Sikkim, sandy Goa to sell tourism together
July 14th, 2010 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 14 (IANS) The hills of Sikkim can now sunbathe in Goa! To tap tourism synergies and boost business, the Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) and its Sikkim counterpart have signed ... Read more...
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Goa welcomes tourism code
July 3rd, 2010 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 3 (IANS) The Goa government and the tourism industry in the state have welcomed the code of conduct for safe and honourable tourism announced by the central government earlier this ... Read more...
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‘South Maharashtra beaches no threat to Goa yet’
May 21st, 2010 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 21 (IANS) The relatively virgin beaches of southern coastal Maharashtra are no threat to beach tourism in Goa, at least not in the immediate future, a top tourism trade official ... Read more...
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Goa gets new vehicles to patrol beaches
May 16th, 2010 - 12:14 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 15 (IANS) To curb the spate of crimes against foreign tourists in Goa, a tourism trade body Saturday donated 15 jeeps and seven motorcycles to the state government to enable ... Read more...
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Russians tourists have ‘all kinds of vices’: Goa BJP chief
February 21st, 2010 - 6:15 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 21 (IANS) Russians tourists who come to Goa have "all kinds of vices", the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) state unit chief Laxmikant Parsenkar Sunday said, calling on the local ... Read more...
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In Gandhi’s hometown, sand sculptures will pay tribute (Jan 30 is Martyrs’ Day)
January 29th, 2010 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
By Shweta Srinivasan
Porbandar (Gujarat), Jan 29 (IANS) Sixty-two years after Mahatma Gandhi's death, nearly 150 artists from across the country have assembled at the beaches here to mould the sand to ... Read more...
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Sand sculpture fest in Goa to focus on global warming
December 14th, 2009 - 11:46 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 14 (IANS) Goa, a popular beach tourism destination battling the effects of climate change, will host a sand art festival with global warming as its central theme, a tourism department ... Read more...
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‘Malaria in Goa linked to migrant labour’
November 3rd, 2009 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Nov 3 (IANS) Linking the rising number of malaria cases in Goa to the steady influx of migrant labourers, a senior malaria research official has said the tourist hub has a ... Read more...
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