Shri.Digambar Kamat, Chief Minister of Goa, Shri.Shantaram Naik, Rajya Sabha M.P., Dr.Ulhas Parab, Vice Chairman, Khadi and Village Industries Board, Mr.Altinho Gomes, General Secretary, GPCC, Mr.J.T.Vaz, The State Chief Organizer of Congress Seva Dal and others CONGRATULATED Smt. Sonia Gandhi for getting elected unanimously for the forth term as CONGRESS PRESIDENT. She has achieved Distinction of [...]

The government is contemplating changes to the scheme for interest-free loans  to students pursuing higher education so that those whose families have a higher annual income can also apply for the loan. The proposal by the Goa Education Development Corporation is expected to come up for cabinet approval on Monday. Sources said that with the [...]

Mr. Shantaram Naik M.P. said that in accordance with the announcement made by the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee ,during his budget speech, of government’s intention to direct the Reserve Bank of India to expand the network of Rural Baking in the country, 41 more villages in Goa, 21 in North and 20 in South are [...]

Japan’s largest private university Nihon has put up a proposal to the Goa University to take a group of Goan students each year to Tokyo on a one-month programme in a bid to acquaint them with Japanese culture and beyond. The administrative head of the College of International Relations located at Nihon University, Takashi Okamoto, [...]

As the state government tries to downplay the tar ball menace that has polluted several of Goa’s famed beaches, an MP of the ruling Congress has asked union Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to probe the matter. Congress Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik has asked the minister to send a team of experts [...]