Jt cadre with Daman-Diu proposed
24 January 2001 22:46 ISTRather than bigger states, Goa now wants to have a joint cadre of IAS officers with smaller union territories like Daman, Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, incidentally all the former Portuguese colonies.Chief minister Manohar ... READ
Jt cadre with Maharashtra raises row
09 January 2001 22:47 ISTThe proposal of BJP chief minister Manohar Parrikar to have a joint IAS cadre with the neighbouring Maharashtra, in order to terminate the centrally controlled cadre system, has received stiff opposition locally, from outside the ... READ
CM against direct foreign funding
14 December 2000 22:48 ISTAttempts by a Portuguese organisation to renovate and restore historical monuments and buildings in Goa - formerly a Portuguese colony - has come under severe criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party government.Though it has not ... READ
Four join Cong to topple BJP
13 December 2000 23:14 ISTFour former ministers, belonging to former chief minister Francisco Sardinha's Goan People's Congress Party, split last night in a bid to join the Congress.Though this is yet another split among the long series taking place ... READ
Mid-term polls in Goa ?
28 November 2000 22:49 ISTMerely one month has passed and the talk of toppling the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Goa - the third one in 11 months - has already begun even among the top politicians, including chief ... READ
Eduardo to move bill to ban defections
15 November 2000 22:50 ISTEduardo Faleiro, Goa's Congress MP and former union minister, is planning to move a bill to amend the tenth schedule of the Constitution of India in this session of the Parliament, banning defections in small ... READ
Industries threaten to wind up
13 October 2000 23:15 ISTWill the imposition of entry tax spell doom for Goa - the industrially backward tourist state ?Fear is being expressed that existing industries may wind up their business from the tourist state, while the local ... READ
Loyal Congmen threaten to boycott polls
04 October 2000 22:57 ISTThe organisational crisis within the Congress here has deepened further with most of the party loyalists threatening to boycott the already-postponed organisational polls while the ruling group accusing them of supporting the ruling coalition of ... READ
Will Narvekar be debarred from contesting polls ?
17 September 2000 22:59 ISTFor the first time after its constitution in 1997, the Public Men's Corruption (Investigations and Inquiries) Commission has held a powerful politician, brother of the deputy chief minister, guilty in a corruption case.While the tourist ... READ
Luizinho's position under threat
05 September 2000 23:01 ISTGoa may be the second state, following West Bengal, to replace the PCC president while the Congress is caught up with fever of organisational elections all over the country.With a demand coming forth from all ... READ
