Shigmo festival ignites Panaji with music and color
Experience the vibrant energy of Goa's Shigmo Festival, blending music, dance, and colorful parades in Panaji from March 26 to April 8, 2024.
Experience the vibrant energy of Goa's Shigmo Festival, blending music, dance, and colorful parades in Panaji from March 26 to April 8, 2024.
As the colours of Shigmo paint the streets with exuberance, various other festivals prepare to showcase their diverse cultural heritage through a series of unique festivals.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant stopped his convoy to help some accident victims on the Canacona Highway on Saturday late at night.
Goa is changing. The infrastuctural changes are noteworthy by way of the new roads, bridges and better connectivity.
According to the opposition parties, Qatar Airways has announced to shift its operations to the Manohar International Airport in North Goa from June 2024 by discontinuing its services at the Dabolim airport situated in the South district.
Goa Forward party president Vijai Sardesai whose patience has been put to the test by the Congress party over possible alliance formation, has taken recourse to paying homage to Durga, invoking a 'new dawn'.
The Tourism Minister also criticised a new national highway project passing through Pernem, saying the newly constructed highway has more potholes than roads, which has aggravated his neck problem.
"Like the country Goa is also suffering because of the BJP. There is economic meltdown, administrative collapse and sharp unemployment. In Goa, 65 per cent of the population is living below the poverty line. The BJP has taken our country 45 years back,"
"We are promoting medical tourism, spiritual tourism, we are promoting hinterland tourism and political tourism. I feel it has started in Goa. Elections are close. I welcome all kinds of tourism so that all my Goan brothers and sisters have access to a new business in Goa. Tourist business should increase in Goa," Sawant told a function in the North Goa district.
Reports about the Trinamool Congress' possible foray in the Goa polls come at a time when a several member-strong team of I-PAC, a political lobbying agency headed by political strategist Prashant Kishor has been in Goa for the last couple of weeks to assess the political ground reality in the poll-bound state.
