Taxi union leaders booked for instigating mining protestors

When taxi union leaders address mining protesters and offer them support, they are termed as instigators and have slapped charges against them . When politicians and sadhavi’s make inflammatory and hate speeches, the police silently watch

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/Taxi-union-leaders-booked-for-instigating-mining-protestors/128614.html

 

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Move over private cab counter at airport raises hackles

And now a private operator is allowed . The yellow and black taxis will now have to contend with a private operator who will I am sure hound the passengers upon arrival . They will even have a ‘Government approved’ board put up and fool the passengers. Why was a tender for this service floated? do we not have enough of yellow and black taxis at the airport? The government is trying hard to create discord among the taxi operators and then give them a bad name

http://www.navhindtimes.in/move-over-private-cab-counter-at-airport-raises-hackles/

 

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‘Cruise tourism will boost employment’

All pipe dream promises. Promoting tourism? why do we never hear of the effect of cruise tourism on our seas and oceans? We often wonder why the floods and cyclones hit us. The answer is cruise tourism which pollutes our oceans and seas leading to water temperatures rising and causing imbalances in our ecosystem.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/cruise-tourism-will-boostemployment/articleshow/63388604.cms

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Slums to salons: New avatar for sex industry

Massage parlous and salons have been know for sometime now as new places to pick up women. Sex trade in Goa has been evolving for a while now and its time that admit to ourselves that it is taking a very sophisticated avatar

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/slums-to-salons-new-avatar-for-sex-industry/articleshow/63388720.cms

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MoEF to regularise projects that failed to obtain CRZ clearances

This can only spell more doom to our already fragile ecosystems. Then we wonder why we are faced with storms and rising sea levels.

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/MoEF-to-regularise-projects-that-failed-to-obtain-CRZ-clearances/128140.html

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High-level meet today on escort service websites

Its about time the government does something to stop these freely advertising websites of escort services that have been thriving .

http://www.navhindtimes.in/high-level-meet-today-on-escort-service-websites/

 

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