Panaji: Members of the Goa Mining People’s Front, a collective of workers, truck and barge operators dependent on the now-banned iron ore mining industry, started their three-day protest in the national capital on Tuesday, demanding efforts from the state and Central government towards a quick resumption of mining in the[Read More…]
Panaji: The Indian National Congress on Friday, releases the list of candidates for Goa bye-polls. Sudhir Kandolkar has been named to contest from Mapusa constituency, while Mahadev Naik has been fielded from the Shiroda constituency. Earlier, in a politically significant development, two out of the three Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party legislators early[Read More…]
Panaji: Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s sons Utpal and Abhijat, have been formally requested by the party high command to join the BJP, state party president Vinay Tendulkar said on Monday. “BJP national vice president Avinash Rai Khanna has requested both of Parrikar’s sons to join the BJP when[Read More…]
Panaji: Amid claims on social media that “shuddhikaran” (purification) was conducted at the site where late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s body was kept in the government-run Kala Academy for public to pay last respects, Goa’s Art and Culture Minister Govind Gaude has ordered a probe into the matter. Gurudas Pilernekar,[Read More…]
Panaji: Newly appointed Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who heads a BJP-led coalition government, will face a floor test to prove his dispensation’s majority in the 36-member state legislative assembly on Wednesday. While Sawant told reporters on Tuesday that he is “100 per cent confident” of winning the floor test,[Read More…]
New Delhi: Goa Assembly Speaker and BJP leader Pramod Sawant sworned in as the chief minister of the state at 2 am on Tuesday, after a political situation arose following the demise of Manohar Parrikar. Here’s all you need to know about the new Chief Minister of Goa Pramod Sawant[Read More…]
Panaji: Goa Assembly Speaker Pramod Pandurang Sawant will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of a BJP-led coalition government on Monday evening by Governor Mridula Sinha, a senior BJP leader said. Sawant, who will be the 11th Chief Minister of the coastal state, will succeed his mentor Manohar[Read More…]
Panaji: Goa’s new Chief Minister will be sworn in after 3 p.m., state BJP President Vinay Tendulkar announced on Monday. Speaking to reporters, Tendulkar, who was exiting a city resort with Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant, one of the candidates for the Chief Minister’s post, said that all issues related to[Read More…]
Mumbai: Bollywood names such as Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher have mourned the death of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who died aged 63. A slew of actors remembered Parrikar and called him a “gentleman, intelligent and a good soul.” Parrikar died at his private residence here on[Read More…]
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s final rites were more important than a government formation, the coastal state’s BJP unit said on Monday, even as ongoing negotiations between allies and BJP leaders, including Nitin Gadkari and the party’s National Secretary B.L. Santosh, have appeared to hit a roadblock. Emerging from[Read More…]
According to Lokmat news, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar passed away on Sunday evening. Parrikar was dealing with advanced pancreatic cancer and he was 63 years old. Though there is no official confirmation reported about his death but according to the sources the Goa chief minister breath his last on[Read More…]
Panaji: Over 2,000 people who depend on mining in Goa on Thursday staged a protest march near Panaji, accusing the government of not taking up the issue of resuming work at the mines seriously. The Convenor of the Goa Mining People’s Front, Puti Gaonkar, told the rally that the state[Read More…]
Panaji: Four persons were injured after a scaffolding erected for the construction of a major bridge in Goa across the Zuari river collapsed on Wednesday, an official said. The incident occurred in the afternoon when the metal scaffolding supporting a concrete slab collapsed, injuring the workers onsite. “Four workers have[Read More…]
Panaji: Hospitalised Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will be kept under observation till Monday, Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane tweeted on Sunday, urging people “not to speculate” about the former Defence Minister’s health. “Called on the Hon’ble CM this morning, he will be kept under observation till tomorrow. But most[Read More…]
Panaji: Four Russians were arrested in North Goa for cultivating marijuana and selling other psychotropic drugs, police said on Saturday. The police on Friday night arrested 30-year-old Ilia Stennikov for illegally cultivating marijuana worth Rs 65,000 in a rented apartment in Mandrem beach village, located 30 km from Panaji, North[Read More…]
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will continue in office as long as he is alive, but on account of pancreatic cancer his health condition keeps fluctuating, Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly and ruling BJP MLA Michael Lobo said on Tuesday. As long as Parrikar is running the[Read More…]
Panaji: Expressing disappointment with their meeting on Wednesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Goa Mining People’s Front has now threatened to take the battle to the ruling BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha and by-polls to two Assembly seats. Speaking to IANS on Friday, Puti Gaonkar, President of the[Read More…]
Gadkari, who inaugurated a third bridge across the Mandovi river named “Atal Setu” on Sunday, also said that he was exasperated that his efforts to introduce water transport systems in Goa were not panning out, despite the immense potential to replicate the charm and functionality of the waterways in Italy’s[Read More…]
Holidaying in Goa following a turbulent Parliament winter session, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi surprised patrons at the popular Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant located in South Goa, where he arrived for a Sunday lunch with his mother and former party President, and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Rahul who was wearing a blue[Read More…]
Under the sentinel scheme, the assigned volunteers are paid money by the Goa police for clicking pictures of the traffic violators and informing them via the app based reporting mechanism.
Panaji: Accusing ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar of avoiding meeting legislators from the Opposition, state Congress President Girish Chodankar on Friday said if Parrikar continues this, the Opposition party would raise a ruckus in the forthcoming state Assembly session. “Parrikar has been skipping office regularly. When it comes to meeting[Read More…]
Panaji: Members of the Goa Mining People’s Front, a collective of workers, truck and barge operators dependent on the now-banned iron ore mining industry, on Sunday met BJP national President Amit Shah, to lobby for resumption of mining in the coastal state which has been banned by the apex court[Read More…]
Panaji, Exorbitant taxis and over-enthusiastic policemen, who are trigger-happy penalising outstation vehicles, need to be reined in to salvage Goa’s image as a friendly and feasible tourist destination, a tourism body official said. Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of an event in Panaji on Friday, Savio Messias, President of[Read More…]
Panaji: The Goa Congress on Friday stepped up pressure on the ruling BJP-led coalition government to probe the contents of the controversial audio clip, in which Health Minister Vishwajit Rane purportedly in a conversation says that files related to the Rafale fighter-jet deal were kept in Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s[Read More…]
In a press conference Goa minister Vishwaji P Rane claimed that the audio tape is doctored. He further slammed Congress, saying, “Congress has stooped to such a low level to doctor a tape to create miscommunication between cabinet and CM”. Rane’s claims come after the Congress party while talking to[Read More…]
