Goa records 3,728 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths; positivity rate at 39%The positivity rate shot up to 39.41 per cent from 31.84 per cent on Wednesday.
13 Jan, 2022, 08.32 PM IST
Election Commission may cancel rallies, suspend officials for Covid-19 violationThe ECI held meetings with the Health Secretary and the Union Home Secretary on Thursday to take stock ahead of announcing the poll schedul...
07 Jan, 2022, 09.44 AM IST
Demand in hotel industry to be curtailed in Q4 this fiscal due to fresh COVID wave: ReportWhile the situation is evolving, the rating agency said, "Until the end of last month, there was only some cut-down in discretionary busine...
06 Jan, 2022, 02.24 PM IST
Covid Impact: Banks & NBFCs brace for deterioration in asset quality“It’s a wait-and-watch mode; some states and large cities have announced night curfews, and are restricting movement of people. That is lik...
04 Jan, 2022, 06.25 AM IST
Indians shrug off Omicron scare, head to hills and beaches to welcome 2022Vista Rooms cofounder Amit Damani said, "We are sold out for New Year's eve across destinations. From Kasauli, Mussoorie, to Lonavala, Goa ...
01 Jan, 2022, 08.05 AM IST
India's Omicron COVID tally crosses 1,000-mark; states further tighten measures to deal with surge in coronavirus casesDelhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, meanwhile, said Omicron is gradually spreading in the community and the variant of concern has been f...
30 Dec, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
Goa to test all international passengers for COVID-19 on arrivalTaking to Twitter, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases, the state government has issued a ci...
30 Dec, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
Full vaccination or COVID-19 negative report must for going to parties, restaurants in Goa: CM Pramod SawantThe Goa government on Tuesday decided not to impose night curfew in the coastal state for now so that the tourism business amid the Christm...
29 Dec, 2021, 02.32 PM IST
COVID-19: No night curfew for now as it may affect tourism, says Goa CM"Imposing immediate night curfew is not feasible being a tourist state. We will need time. We have appealed to tourists to take maximum pre...
28 Dec, 2021, 09.58 PM IST
Election Commission unlikely to delay Assembly elections or ban ralliesFollowing a 'stocktaking' meeting with Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Monday, the commission received a fair idea on the pandemic...
28 Dec, 2021, 07.13 AM IST
Goa detects its first Omicron caseMeanwhile, the tally of cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus in the country has risen to 578.
27 Dec, 2021, 09.44 PM IST
Election Commission assesses Covid situation in poll-bound statesThe terms of Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur legislative Assemblies are ending on different dates in March next year while the Uttar P...
27 Dec, 2021, 04.26 PM IST
Health secretary to brief Election Commission on COVID-19 situation tomorrowThe commission is likely to seek updates from Bhushan on the COVID-19 situation and the emergence of Omicron, the new coronavirus variant, ...
26 Dec, 2021, 11.26 PM IST
Accor could see revenues almost returning to 2019 levels by Q4 2022 if Covid doesn't spiral out of control in India, says top executive"So far, we have seen a muted response to the new variant. I think what we have gone through the first lockdown and the second wave, genera...
24 Dec, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
Three passengers from UK test COVID-19 positive in Goa, samples sent for genome sequencingIn a tweet, Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Friday said, "Three patients tested positive from a flight that arrived today morning fro...
17 Dec, 2021, 11.15 AM IST
Omicron: 5 merchant navy ship crew isolated in Goa, genome sequencing reports awaitedState Epidemiologist Utkarsh Betodkar said the five are being treated as Omicron suspects and the genome sequencing reports are expected to...
06 Dec, 2021, 09.18 PM IST
Omicron reaches Karnataka but Indians are not shelving their wedding plansHotels said they haven't received any cancellations for weddings so far and events are going ahead as planned even as they are keeping a cl...
03 Dec, 2021, 06.24 AM IST