Enjoy Goa, but No Smoking, please
17 September 1997 17:58 ISTFestivities like carnival and Christmas in Goa, which have become more famous due to sponsored floats and full-night dances, are likely to get severely affected with the state government banning any form of tobacco advertising ... READ
Goan scribes to make Right to Info a national issue
14 September 1997 21:13 ISTJournalists agitating in Goa over an anti-media clause in the right to information bill have now decided to take up the issue at national level, as the congress government here is still acting adamant despite ... READ
Is Gujral planning TN style transparency ?
28 August 1997 21:14 ISTWith decks getting cleared for the united front government to present the Right to Information bill in the winter session, it is wondered whether it would be on the lines of the act passed in ... READ
Centre planning legal dhirio
21 August 1997 22:05 ISTBull fights, one of the tourist attractions in Goa, is likely to re-emerge in a more organised and legal manner, after the court had banned it since last October under the provisions of cruelty to ... READ
Centre may stall assent to police bill
11 August 1997 22:05 ISTThe union home ministry is likely to stall the controversial Goa Police bill, which provides for partially privatising the police force. The legislators here are however agitated over the governor holding the bill for last ... READ
Guv assures to uphold press freedom
07 August 1997 21:15 ISTA statement from Governor Dr P C Alexander that no power in the country can water down press freedom has come as a sigh of relief to the striking journalists against a draconian clause in ... READ
Official Secrets Act a hurdle in Right to Info
06 August 1997 21:16 ISTCan Right to Information legislation, if enacted by any state, bring in total transparency in the state administration ? Or the existing legislations like the Official Secrets Act etc can defeat the very purpose of ... READ
Scribes wage a war over Right to Info bill
01 August 1997 21:16 ISTJournalists, who walked out of the Assembly and boycotted the last-day House proceedings, are in a mood to wage a war against the local Congress government over suppressing Freedom of the Press in the name ... READ
Right to Info bill guns at scribes' freedom
20 July 1997 21:17 ISTThe Congress government here has come under fire for attempting to suppress the Freedom of the Press under the pretext of the Right to Information bill it has presented in the Assembly.Some draconian clauses are ... READ
Who is holding the police bill ?
17 July 1997 22:07 ISTAfter adjourning the House and suspending the Question Hour in an unprecedented manner, expressing anguish over the delay allegedly caused by the governor in assenting the Goa Police bill, Speaker Tomazinho Cardoz now feels that ... READ
