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Air India Express launches Goa-Dubai direct flights, will operate four weekly
Air India Express launches Goa-Dubai direct flights where the first flight IX 840 took off at 1:00 am on Monday with 148 passengers on board from Dabolim Airport.

Goa tourist attack: Argument over smoking led to assault with swords, knives
Investigators said the tourists were smoking a hookah which led to the argument with a waiter when he told them it was a no-smoking area and they should stop

No active forest fires in Goa now but keeping a close watch, says minister Rane
The Goa forest fires review meeting was attended by senior officials from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

A few doused, but Goa wildfires continue
At least 48 fires have been reported since March 5 in government forests, private land, common land and private forests, according to the state forest department.

Week after first blaze, forest fires continue to rage across 11 hills in Goa
The fires have reduced large tracts of Western Ghats forests to ashes and damaged acres of cashew plantations at a time when farmers were gearing up to harvest the crop.
