Goa-Karnataka CMs to meet over Mhadei
25 January 2010 12:53 IST
Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has convened a meeting of chief ministers of Karnataka and Goa on February 5 to resolve dispute over sharing of Mhadei river water. READ
Goa welcomes centre's stand on Mhadei
18 January 2010 13:06 ISTThe Goa Government has welcomed the Centre's submission before the Supreme Court about the formation of Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal to resolve the water diversion row with Karnataka. READ
Goa to ban gutkha
26 September 2005 19:35 ISTGoa will be the first state in the country to ban the consumption of gutka and other `injurious food products' in addition to its sale and storage when the ban comes into effect from October ... READ
Luizinho indicted in EDC racket
16 December 2004 22:55 ISTGoa’s former chief minister Luizinho Faleiro has been indicted in a financial racket worth over Rs 100 crore, by a judicial commission headed by Justice M L Pendse.Mr Faleiro, also the state Congress president, ... READ
Beware of Karnataka : Halarnkar
25 September 2002 23:08 ISTOnly strong and united struggle against diversion of Mandovi river can stop sinister designs of a state like Karnataka, which even violates Supreme Court directives on the issue of releasing Cauvery water, cautioned Nationalist Congress ... READ
Mhadei diversion letter kept in abeyance
21 September 2002 23:09 ISTWhile the dispute over releasing the Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu has complicated further, Karnataka has received a setback on yet another water dispute issue - diversion of Goa’s famous Mandovi river.The centre has kept ... READ
Priest evicted for dalit wedding
26 August 2002 21:44 ISTWithin a year, Goa has witnessed yet another incident of caste discrimination, with non-Brahmin OBC community people exhibiting their anti-dalit sentiments in a crude manner. In fact the immediate victim is a Brahmin priest, who ... READ
Row over shifting Anjadiv Church
24 August 2002 21:45 ISTThe Bharatiya Janata Party government in Goa as well as at the centre has once again come under a clout of being anti-minorities, but this time over an issue of shifting of five-century old Christian ... READ
Shennoi Goembab hailed for inspiring work
22 August 2002 23:23 ISTShennoi Goembab is not an inspiration to the people of Goa alone but the whole Konkani community spread all over India as well as in several parts of the world, due to his inspiring thoughts ... READ
Mallya also plans feni export
20 August 2002 17:37 ISTVijay Mallya, India's one of the leading liquor baron-turned politician, is planning to hit the international market with Goa's world-famous Feni."Being a frequent visitor to Goa, I am familiar with Feni. I know it has ... READ
