CS Negi transferred amidst crisis
31 January 2005 22:51 ISTAmidst political crisis existing in the state, Goa's chief secretary Dev Singh Negi was transferred from the state to Andaman and Nicobar.The state administration disclosed that Kiran Dhingra will take over as the chief ... READ
BJP preparing for ZP polls
22 January 2005 23:02 ISTWith the Zilla panchayat elections knocking door, the state Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) today issued instructions to all its party workers not to contest elections against each other.As the panchayat Raj act does not ... READ
Controversial VCD withdrawn
05 January 2005 23:11 ISTGoa’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has decided to withdraw the controversial video film on Goan Freedom Struggle the Goan church had objected to.The local BJP has been charged of pushing forward the Hindutva agenda ... READ
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forcing government employees to attend office on a public holiday.Retreating on its previous stand, the government has withdrawn its earlier ...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
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
The first NRI minister...
29 June 2002 22:34 IST'Loha lohe ko kataa hai' is the new slogan of Indian politics. The people of Benaulim, a coastal constituency in South Goa housing series of five star hotels, were eagerly waiting for a political 'avataar' ... READ
