Konkan Fruit Fest

30/05/2025

Warming up to the 33rd edition of the FESTIVAL OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS with Alexyz Cartoon , Liza Pinheiro

The 32nd edition of the annual Festival of Plants & Flowers at the SFX School, Siolim, is on till August 26, 2024. It is open to the public and there is no

01/10/2024

GROWING BANANAS, GOING BANANAS, EATING BANANAS: CELEBRATING Cartoon Alexyz . Banana Eating Competition for the young and the young at heart on Monday 14 October, 2024, at 4.30 P.M. only at the ART CHAMBER, Yolanda de Sousa 's Galeria de Belas Artes, Near the Church, Gauravaddo, CALANGUTE- Goa. https://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=636184&date=2024-10-01&pageid=1

25/09/2024

“Any tree or plant has more leaves than fruits and flowers. Yet that tree or plant is recognized by the name of its fruit or flower. In the same way, no matter how many good things we have, we are recognized only by our deeds. " Posted by Raj Vaidya. SO TRUE.

02/09/2024

WORLD COCONUT DAY 02 SEPTEMBER. Coconut Palm is the STATE TREE OF GOA ...Notified in the Official Gazette, Government of Goa in December, 2017, after amending the Goa Preservation of Trees Act, 1984, to provide for it. (Official Gazette page is reproduced below) Till then, even the Matti or Maddat, Terminalia elliptica, was an UNNOTIFIED 'State tree of Goa, Daman & Diu' as as the State Animal (Gaur), State Bird (Red breasted Bulbul) and other ALLEGED state creatures, including the 'State Heritage Spirit, Cashew Feni' still are. The Matti was regularized with the Coconut Tree in 2017. No previous Gazette notification has been produced by anyone as proof to the contrary. The only other NOTIFIED item is the "Heritage Goan Folk Musical Instrument" GHUMOTT without Monitor Lizard skin.

02/09/2024

VEGETABLES AND FRUITS

It is almost the end the month of Shravan, but most Hindus in Goa continue on a vegetarian diet through the first week of Bhadrapada because of Ganesh Chaturthi

26/08/2024

FESTIVAL OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS, SFX SCHOOL, SIOLIM.

The 32nd edition of the annual Festival of Plants & Flowers at the SFX School, Siolim, is on till August 26, 2024. It is open to the public and there is no

24/08/2024

St. Xavier's Higher Secondary School, Mapusa-Goa, held a Plant Competition, Exhibition and Sale on its campus. Happy to be invited by my Alma Mater as Chief Guest for the event. Victoria De Souza , Brian Duarte

28/06/2024

GOA NOW HAS TEN PRODUCTS WITH G.I. TAG INCLUDING 'GOAN CASHEW NUT' but let us look at the status of the first seven which have not yet achieved heaven.

Goa’s list of products and produce that have a geographical indication (GI) has just lengthened with the Mancurad mango, bebinca, Agassaim brinja

08/04/2024

08/04/2024

AUXILIARY BISHOP OF GOA HAS THE HUMBLE SPIRIT OF SERVICE THAT IS THE HALLMARK OF A GOOD CHRISTIAN.

08/04/2024

GROWTH IS BIOLOGICALLY TWO DIRECTIONAL.