Peaceful partial bandh in Goa
26 September 2002 22:29 ISTGoa was largely peaceful today, except minor incidents of stone throwing around Panaji, while the BJP-ruled state partially observed the bandh in response to the nationwide call given by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the ... READ
Work for Gandhi on a holiday : BJP
24 September 2002 22:30 ISTA unique controversy over Gandhi Jayanti holiday has erupted in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Goa, forcing government employees to attend office on a public holiday.Retreating on its previous stand, the government has withdrawn its earlier ... READ
Sahni to be new Guv, Fazal to Maharashtra
23 September 2002 22:31 ISTMohammed Fazal, one of the longest serving Goa governor in the recent past, is likely to be posted as the governor of Maharashtra, filling the vacancy being created due to resignation of Dr P C ... READ
Panaji widened across Mandovi
27 August 2002 22:32 ISTIn spite of a stiff opposition, Goa government has passed the bill to make Panaji a municipal corporation, incorporating fully or partly nine more villages around the capital city.While the legislation was introduced and passed ... READ
Venkaiah to stop sops to kins in BJP
09 August 2002 21:16 ISTThough he refuses to admit that petroleum minister Ram Naik is involved in petrol pump allotment issue, Bharatiya Janata Party Venkaiah Naidu says his party is evolving a system where people in high places will ... READ
Result chart of Assembly 2002 poll
02 August 2002 22:12 ISTBharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party with 17 seats, in a hung Assembly of 40. Congress won 16, only one less to the saffron party. The UGDP won three seats, MGP two, ... READ
HC fines Congmen, dismisses petition
01 August 2002 23:36 ISTGoa's three leading Congress legislators have been fined by the high court for wasting time of the court for their own political gains, while dismissing their pleas challenging dissolution of the state Assembly on 27 ... READ
HC fines Congmen, dismisses petition
01 August 2002 22:32 ISTGoa's three leading Congress legislators have been fined by the high court for wasting time of the court for their own political gains, while dismissing their pleas challenging dissolution of the state Assembly on 27 ... READ
Beware of RSS Parrikar, caution ideologues
02 July 2002 22:33 ISTGoa chief minister Manohar Parrikar's statement that he is a staunch swayamsevak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has evoked protests from ideologues here and Maharashtra.It sounds bells of caution that Goa may follow Gujarat, now ... READ
Photo I-cards must for polls
30 June 2002 21:53 ISTIn spite of parties like the Congress urging to follow old procedures, the Election Commission of India has decided to make photo identification compulsory in the Assembly polls, scheduled in Goa on 30 May. READ
