Tag: Goa

Goa beaches to open for swimming on Nov 1

Panaji: Weeks after the seas off Goa’s beaches were rendered “unsafe”, the popular haunts will formally open for swimming from November 1 with 24 ‘no-selfie’ zones, a state agency said here on Wednesday. With Monsoon waning and post-monsoon showers receding, state-appointed Drishti Lifesaving lifeguard agency has started the process of[Read More…]

Goa government finally admits Parrikar suffering from pancreatic cancer

Goa government finally admits Parrikar suffering from pancreatic cancer

Panaji: Months after both the Goa BJP and the state administration refused to disclose Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s ailment, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Saturday finally admitted he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. The dmission came amid relentless demands from the opposition parties to know whether the Chief Minister[Read More…]

Release Parrikar's video to show he is fit to govern: Congress

Release Parrikar’s video to show he is fit to govern: Congress

Panaji: The Congress on Friday demanded that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government in Goa prove that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer for nearly eight months and has not been seen in public since October 14, is fit to govern. Addressing a press conference[Read More…]

Cannot share Parrikar's health update: Goa Minister

Cannot share Parrikar’s health update: Goa Minister

Panaji: Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said he could not share any update on ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s current condition. “I cannot give his (Parrikar’s) update. The Chief Minister is unwell and it is the prerogative of the family to give information. It is not for the Minister for[Read More…]

Two booked in Goa for raping niece for 10 years

Two booked in Goa for raping niece for 10 years

Panaji: The police in Goa have filed an FIR against two persons for allegedly raping their niece for over 10 years, an official said. According to a First Information Report filed at the Porvorim police station in North Goa district, the victim aged 23, has said that the two uncles[Read More…]

Ailing Goa CM Manohar Parrikar discharged from AIIMS

Ailing Goa CM Manohar Parrikar discharged from AIIMS

New Delhi: Goa’s ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was being treated for advanced pancreatic cancer at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was discharged from the hospital on Sunday, an official said. “Parrikar’s health condition deteriorated in the early morning on Sunday and he was shifted to intensive[Read More…]

PM 'omitted' details about his property, alleges Congress

Crisis of governance in Goa created by BJP: Congress

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday accused the BJP leadership of creating a constitutional breakdown and crisis of governance in Goa with its refusal to replace ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar with at least a caretaker Chief Minister. Charging that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership’s “sheer greed for power”[Read More…]

Goa's Art and Culture Minister orders probe if site where Parrikar's body kept 'purified'

Manohar Parrikar cabinet drops two Ministers in Goa

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar cabinet drops two ministers informed the Chief Minister’s office (CMO) on Monday morning. BJP’s Francis D’Souza and Pandurang Madkaikar are not in good health and are receiving treatment in hospitals. Coincidentally, the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is also undergoing treatment for pancreatic ailment at the[Read More…]

BJP team meets Goa MLAs over leadership, no consensus yet

BJP team meets Goa MLAs over leadership, no consensus yet

The BJP central leadership’s attempts to form a consensus between party MLAs and alliance partners in Goa over alternate leadership due to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s illness remained inconclusive on Sunday. Allocation of portfolios held by Parrikar could take place in the next few days, a ruling alliance Minister said.[Read More…]

Cannot share Parrikar's health update: Goa Minister

Goa CM Parrikar heads for AIIMS Delhi

Panaji, Sep 15 (IANS) Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday headed to the national capital via a special chartered flight for further treatment and examination at the All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Parrikar, who is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer, also held meetings with Speaker Pramod Sawant[Read More…]

Cannot share Parrikar's health update: Goa Minister

Goa CM Manohar Parrikar to fly to US for treatment

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is currently admitted in a private hospital in Mumbai, is expected to fly to the US later on Wednesday, an official said. Parrikar had returned to Goa on August 22 from the US but was admitted in a Mumbai hospital within hours of his[Read More…]

Koregaon-Bhima case: Pune court rejects bail plea of rights activists

Modi government’s unfolding emergency through back door

On Tuesday morning, Pune police conducted a widespread raid and simultaneous arrests of activists in Ranchi, Hyderabad, Delhi, Faridabad, Goa and Mumbai. Stan Swamy in Ranchi, Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, Gautam Navlakha in New Delhi, Sudha Bharadwaj in Faridabad, Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde in Goa and Vernon Gonsalves and Arun[Read More…]





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