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Congress won South Goa, but BJP gained!
Even BJP camp had surrendered to the fac
Do Goan voters follow the Parties & Leaders?
“I am a voter from Mandrem constituenc
Not ‘sacred’, a ‘secret’ vote will dominate
Normally it is silent vote that decides
Babu & Pavaskar merge MGP group into BJP! Why?
Finally it happened. MGP Minister Babu A
Shocking: Kala Academy ‘purified’ after Parrikar’s funeral Darshan
In a shocking incident, Goa Kala Academy
Multifaceted Vishnu Wagh no more
Multifaceted personality Vishnu Surya Wa
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Society
Multifaceted Vishnu Wagh no more
13 February 2019 22:31 ISTMultifaceted personality Vishnu Surya Wagh expired in Cape Town of South Africa, after a prolonged illness since August 2016. ... READ
Goa police arrest Kenneth for FB post that Parrikar is dead
18 April 2018 23:22 ISTKenneth Silveira, a young hotelier of Vasco, has been arrested by Goa police for putting a Facebook post that Goa’s Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has died. ... READ
Why Goa Assembly’s media guidelines sound to be a cruel Joke!
05 April 2018 14:28 ISTThe media is enraged over the guidelines issued by Goa Legislative Secretariat to the media persons for accreditation to cover the Assembly sessions. It has been termed as undemocratic, discriminative as well as onslaught on the Freedom of the Press. ... READ
Issues
Will bring BJP CMs on board to resolve Mhadei row: Yeddyurappa
28 May 2017 22:19 ISTState president of BJP B S Yeddyurappa has taken the responsibility of bringing BJP chief Ministers of Goa and Maharashtra together to resolve the decades-old Mahadayi row. ... READ
Properties of Digambar and Churchill attached in Louis Berger scam
30 March 2017 21:01 ISTThe central government’s Enforcement Directorate has moved into action, attaching properties of former Congress CM Digambar Kamat and former minister Churchill Alemao in the Louis Berger bribery case. ... READ
Bill for single water dispute tribunal introduced, powers to Centre for amicable settlement
15 March 2017 22:08 ISTThe Mhadei water sharing dispute, which has reached near completion, is caught into rough weather as the central government today introduced a bill for a single tribunal for all the inter-state water disputes. ... READ
Infrastructure
Frustrated Goan’s petition to bring Ola, Uber into Goa goes viral
28 April 2017 21:29 ISTA rather fervid online petition by a Goan citizen on Change.org has gained stupendous traction since it was uploaded two days ago.... READ
Travel Goa to Mumbai in 6 hours, by 2018
22 September 2016 22:19 ISTGoa to Mumbai by road would be hardly six hours, by 2018. ... READ
GMR to build Mopa airport, first phase by 2020, 4.4 M traffic
26 August 2016 20:37 ISTBengaluru-based GMR Airports Ltd has been selected to construct Goas new Mopa airport in four phases at the total cost of Rs 4500 crore. ... READ
Sports
ISL sold FC Goa stakes to casino king Mody
05 August 2016 13:04 ISTNew major owner of FC Goa and Casino King Jaydev Mody has confirmed that the proposal to take over the team came from Indian Super League.... READ
Salgaocar, Dempo quit FC Goa after ISL sets aside ban on them
22 July 2016 21:19 ISTDattaraj Salgaocar and Shrinivas Dempo, the co-owners of FC Goa and prime promoters of football in Goa, have decided to quit FC Goa after the ban on them was set aside by the Indian Super League today. ... READ
FC Goa retains Spanish midfielder Jofre
19 July 2016 20:23 ISTFC Goa have retained Spanish midfielder Jofre Mateu Gonsales for the third season of the Hero Indian Super League.... READ
Politics
Congress won South Goa, but BJP gained!
10 June 2019 01:20 ISTEven BJP camp had surrendered to the fact that Franciso Sardinha of Congress would win South Goa MP election of 2019. But hardly anybody expected that the margin would be hardly 10,000 votes. ... READ
Do Goan voters follow the Parties & Leaders?
30 May 2019 17:11 IST“I am a voter from Mandrem constituency. Today is the election. I enter the polling booth. There are two Electronic Voting Machines in front of me. One for Lok Sabha and another for Mandrem Assembly by-election. On Lok Sabha EVM, I press the button of BJP candidate Shripad Naik. And then I move to the Assembly EVM, either to press the button of Congress candidate Babi Bagkar or independent Jeet Arolkar, not the BJP.”... READ
Not ‘sacred’, a ‘secret’ vote will dominate
14 April 2019 23:04 ISTNormally it is silent vote that decides the winners in Goa elections nowadays. Open affiliation to any candidate or party is limited only to the hard-core cadres & ‘paid workers’. Majority prefers to remain silent because they don’t trust politicians any more. Yesterday’s loyal Congressman Subhash Shirodkar is with the BJP today and yesterday’s saffron Mahadev Naik is flying a Congress flag, claiming that he is the original Congressman. Dayanand Sopte moves from BJP to Congress and then back to BJP. And Sudhir Kandolkar overnight jumps from BJP to Congress simply because he has been denied BJP ticket. ... READ
Economy
SC again stops Goa mining from 16 March, orders fresh ECs & recover dues
07 February 2018 13:06 ISTWithin six years, the mining industry of Goa has received a second blow of closure. The Supreme Court has cancelled all the 88 mining leases of Goa.... READ
NGT orders 25 miners to appear before MoEF, face closure threat
11 August 2017 21:08 ISTThe National Green Tribunal had directed 25 mining leaseholders of Goa to appear before the Ministry of Environment and Forests on 7th September, in connection with the alleged invalid environment clearance they are holding. ... READ
Shifting all casinos on-shore in 3 years; Goans to be debarred: Parrikar
24 July 2017 23:16 ISTChief Minister Manohar Parrikar has finally spelt out his proposed policy on casinos, a classic U turn, from vehemently opposing any kind of casinos to now shifting the ‘offshore’ gambling on-the-shore. ... READ
Culture
‘Donbass’ bags Golden Peacock, Malayalam film gets 2 awards
28 November 2018 22:14 IST‘Donbass’, which Ukrain has officially nominated for Oscars, seized the Golden Peacock at the 49th IFFI concluded here this evening. ... READ
If you feel what you do, it's seen in your eyes, no need to act it out: The secret of silent film 'The Bra'
28 November 2018 14:20 IST'The Bra', a silent film made waves in IFFI 2018. Veit Helmer, a German director, was in town to watch the response from Indian spectators. It's a simple tory of a train driver in Ajerbaijan. One day as this train driver is passing through a small town, a woman's bra gets caught in his train and he goes off to find the owner of the bra.... READ
Theatre creates the base; Netflix is bringing cinema closer to TV: Chin Han
22 November 2018 14:07 IST“I am excited about Indian scripts. India has a storehouse of talent, with a rich cinematic history. And legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray has been by inspiration.”... READ