The High Court expressed concern over the delay in the removal of the grounded River Princess from the Candolim beach.

The stage is set for the High Court of Bombay at Goa to decide on the removal of the River Princess. The case is fixed for the 1st of September 2009.

In what is being touted as the biggest gathering of its kind in the country, 130 witnesses and producers of community video will converge in Candolim for the first ever community video camp where champions and makers of community video will come together.

Remedious (Escrivao Waddo) lifted the 2nd Babazin Cardozo memorial inter-ward football tournament, organised by Saipem Sports Club with a nervy 4-1 win via tie-breaker over a determined Young Challengers Orda in the finals.

 The opposition on Friday grilled the government on the River Princess and charged it with taking contradictory stands on the issue in the high court. 

Calangute police on Friday evening raided a massage parlour in Candolim and rescued three girls who were victims of trafficking. They also arrested three customers, one woman Yashoda and the manager of the parlour Laxman Gawde.

The Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar on Monday created a flutter in the House when he said the River Princess, which has been grounded off Candolim coast is become a platform for smuggling drugs.

Goa's two-pronged pilot project at Candolim of arresting severe beach erosion and inducing its restoration through use of geo tubes and sand nourishment has run into rough weather with a 140-metre stretch of the artificial barrier punctured by floating debris, resulting in further erosion of the devastated beach. 

The coastal stretch of Candolim, Calangute, Sinquerim and Baga is a major tourist attraction in Bardez taluka. Many a times there is a spurt in drowning cases at these beaches. But the health services to deal with drowning cases in this belt are found wanting as the primary health centre at Candolim is not well-equipped to deal with such cases and victims have to be rushed to private hospitals.