Sardinha agrees to inventory, fast to end tommorrow
07 April 2000 09:43 ISTAfter going adamant initially on the issue of making inventory of the Meta Strips plant, chief minister Francisco Sardinha finally agreed for it soon after discussing the matter with the Anti Meta Strips Citizens Action ... READ
CM orders closure of Meta Strips
06 April 2000 09:44 ISTAmicable solution on the controversy over Meta Strips issue appears visible with chief minister Francisco Sardinha ordering clsoure of the factory immediately. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting today evening after the first ... READ
Sec 144 throughout Goa, AMCAC to intensify stir
05 April 2000 09:44 ISTPeaceful Goa appears to be turning into tension-prone area with the state government imposing section 144 throughout the state while agitators of five villages in South Goa threatening to spread their violent stir against the ... READ
Cortalim turns violent, CM asures to stop work at Meta Strips
04 April 2000 09:53 ISTThe year-long agitation against the controversial Meta Strips project in South Goa has turned violent with agitators blocking the national highway here and burning down state-owned buses while the state government has gone ahead allowing ... READ
Tourism granted industry status, amidst confusion
03 March 2000 09:53 ISTThe unilateral decision of the state government to grant industry status to tourism may result in ultimately the tourist state losing on revenue count rather than earning anything, though the hotel lobby here has welcomed ... READ
Sardinha scraps Cong's panel, appoints another to probe Meta Strips
28 January 2000 09:54 ISTGovernments keep on changing in Goa, but only with a difference of opinion on who will share the power and not on the crucial ecological and developmental issues the tiny tourist state is confronted with. ... READ
MPT strike total, though unloading allowed
21 January 2000 23:28 ISTThe four-day old national level port strike may not prolong for long as all the 11 ports in India had already made enough financial provision in order to meet all the 15 demands put before ... READ
Cabinet sub-com to study uniform tax policy
17 January 2000 09:56 ISTGoa is already suffering from less amount of grants being received from the centre. Still the tourist state has decided not to implement the uniform sales tax policy as per the categorised minimum floor rate ... READ
Pepsi may take over bottling in Goa & Karnataka
14 January 2000 09:56 ISTPepsi Foods Ltd, one of the biggest soft drink multinational, is likely to take over bottling operations in Goa and Karnataka, from its three-year old franchise bottler, the House of Timblos.Surprisingly, the proposal in this ... READ
Goa may not benefit from uniform tax policy
12 January 2000 09:57 ISTRather than benefiting, Goa may lose revenue on the count of the uniform sales tax policy in spite of the fact that the existing tax structure is much below average in the tourist state here.The ... READ
