PANAJI
The feast of St John Bosco, popularly called Don Bosco, will be celebrated on January 31. Masses on the feast day will be celebrated at 6.30 am, 7.30 am, 8 am and the feast Mass will be celebrated and also transmitted online at 6 pm on the Youtube channel ‘Don Bosco Shrine Panjim. At all Masses, the blessing will be imparted with the relic of St John Bosco. The feast was preceded by nine days of novenas that commenced on January 22. The novena also included the feast of St Francis de Sales, the saint of kindness and the patron of the Salesian Society.
Old Canacona highway closed for heavy traffic
CANACONA A stretch of highway passing through Mashem, Poinguinim, Ordhfond and Chaudi in Canacona will be closed for all heavy vehicular traffic at Mashem for three months from February 1 on account of the reconstruction of the old Mashem bridge.“As such, heavy vehicular traffic will be diverted via the “Canacona bypass” on NH-66,” states a press note by the Department of Information and Publicity.Sources informed The Goan that due to the closure of the 1 km stretch of the…
