Bogus cricket ticket row rocks Goa
07 April 2001 23:05 ISTThe India-Australia cricket series is over, leaving behind one more controversy of a financial racket of thousands of bogus tickets sold in Goa, where India lost the one day international series to the Aussies.Several cricket ... READ
Centre intervenes to resolve Mhadei dispute
04 April 2001 23:18 ISTThe central water commission has convened a meeting of three states - Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa - to discuss the inter-state water dispute over diversion of river Mhadei by constructing seven dams in Karnataka forest.The ... READ
Goa bars liquor bars
22 March 2001 17:41 ISTPerhaps for the first time in the history of Goa, a known tourist destination world over, the state government has taken a positive step towards controlling consumption of alcohol and alcoholism.While presenting his maiden budget ... READ
Goan youth oppose pro-Marathi moves
16 March 2001 23:45 ISTThe age-old language controversy over Konkani and Marathi still haunts Goa while the young blood in the state is fighting to make knowledge of Konkani essential in recruitment, in order to stop increasing influx of ... READ
PM's intervention demanded on Mhadei
08 March 2001 23:18 ISTGoa has now urged prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to intervene and direct Karnataka to stop diversion of Mhadei water to the southern state.Attention of important central leaders is being drawn towards the Goa-Karnataka water ... READ
Smokers, sellers fined in Goa
27 February 2001 17:48 ISTSmokers beware ! You can be now actually fined up to Rs 5000, in Goa. Nevertheless, the same fate you would meet if you chew tobacco or even spit in public.Almost over one year after ... READ
Maharashtra also affected by Mhadei project
09 February 2001 23:19 ISTThe inter-state water dispute between Karnataka and Goa has taken a new dimension with Maharashtra also being roped into it, in support of the tiny tourist state.By diverting water of river Mhadei, which originates in ... READ
Karntaka dams may cause quake : Cong
06 February 2001 23:20 ISTOpposition to big dams seems to be the natural fallout of the disastrous earthquake in Gujarat. Interestingly, the outcry has come not from environmental groups but the Congress leaders.Goa PCC president Nirmala Sawant, who is ... READ
Objectionable Surajkund brochure withdrawn
17 January 2001 23:46 ISTThe highly objectionable brochure on Goa released by the Haryana government, on the occasion of its prestigious Surajkund crafts mela, may be withdrawn immediately.Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar has directed the local tourism authorities to ... READ
Protests over humiliating Goans
02 January 2001 23:47 ISTThe two-day festival, where India's nightingale Lata Mangeshkar was felicitated, has become a major controversy here as Goans were not made part of it by the Maharashtra-based Chaturang, the organisers.The local BJP government has been ... READ
