this decade. A new Hindi daily paper Nitya Samay also started from Margao. As of 2013, the Lokmat, which is a newspaper based in Maharashtra, was also a growing and influential paper in the Marathi segment of the Goa newspaper market; it comes out with a local edition, edited by Raju Nayak. Goan Varta is also Marathi newspaper in Goa. Out-station dailies reaching Goa from other centres of publication include, Kesari, Maharashtra Times, Loksatta, The Asian Age, Deccan Herald, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Navshakti and more. News agencies operating in the state are the Press Trust of India and the United News of India, while the Indo-Asian News Service and ANI have also offered regular coverage from Goa. Other publications in the state include Vasco Watch (English-language, fortnightly—Free to reader neighbourhood newspaper), Hello Publications, Hello Travel Talk (English-language, a tourism magazine), Whats On Goa (English-language, fortnightly—an event lister Of Goa), Hello City - Hello Panjim, Hello Margao (English-language), Hello Goa Yellowpages (English-language, Yearly), Gulab (Konkani, monthly), Bimb (Devanagiri-script Konkani), Poddbimb (Konkani Roman-script monthly), Harbour Times, [Digital Goa], and J's House among others. Some of the smaller publications are known to change their name, form or even go out of publication temporarily or permanently. Crisis during 2020 pandemic Job losses and newspaper shutdowns were reported during the pandemic in mid-2020 and thereabouts, due to the impact of Covid-19 and consequent governmental policies on the media. About 60 media employees had lost their jobs, and a number of others had to face 15-50 per cent salary cuts. The English-language daily Gomantak Times shut down its operations at the end of May 2020. The Gomantak Times had been started in 1986, as part of the Chowgule mining group, and had then been sold to the Pawar family-linked Sakal Publications of Pune (earlier Poona) in 2000. It had some 13 journalist employees. Prior to this, the Formento Media (Timblo)-linked Prudent TV channel laid off some 23 of its staff -- 10 from the Marathi daily Goan Varta, nine from Prudent TV, and two each from the English-language daily The Goan and the Konkani daily Bhangarbhuim. Lokmat Marathi daily also shut down its three bureaus in Mapusa, Vasco and Ponda. It retrenched some composing, admin, junior reporter and photographer staff. Some staff from the towns outside its centre of publication were asked to work from home. A total of 16 job losses reported from the