The Goa government has extended the working hours in factories to 12 hours with certain conditions till July-end.

Goa waste management corporation (GWMC) has finalized the tender document to set up the over Rs 200cr garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, Old Goa on a build own operate and transfer (BOOT) basis.

Health minister Vishwajit Rane on Friday directed all 26 OPDs to be operational at the new south Goa district hospital from Monday. After inspecting the infrastructure and facilities at the 500-bedded hospital, Rane said that though the hospital is not complete, whatever parts have been handed over to the health services would be put to maximum use.

The Corporation of the City of Panaji has restarted pay-parking in the state capital after a hiatus of six weeks.

For over five hours, as migrant workers and stranded tourists boarded the Shramik special train, the two loco pilots ran over checklists and discussed their route in the engine of train number 01602.

Over a thousand migrant workers heaved a collective sigh of relief as the first Shramik special train rolled out of Thivim railway station on Friday. The train, with 1,196 labourers and stranded tourists, is headed for Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.

Congress on Friday demanded an independent inquiry, headed by a retired high court judge, into the death of two-time MLA Jitendra Deshprabhu. State Congress president Girish Chodankar alleged that Deshprabhu died due to the negligence of Goa Medical College authorities.

Enraged over unbridled mining transportation through the village, a group of locals from Capxem, near Sanvordem, marched to the local office of a major mining firm and demanded an explanation over the steep rise in the movement of mining trucks from its mine along the Kalay–Cuddegal–Sanvordem–Capxem route.

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