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Panaji, March 16 (IANS) A leading civic rights group Tuesday alleged irregularities in granting permissions to a mega housing project promoted by Delhi-based infrastructure firm DLF and has called the role of Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat in the deal as ‘extremely suspicious’.
‘As head of the town and country planning (TCP) department, his (Kamat) role [...]

Mumbai, July 9 (ANI): The indefinite strike by over 4,000 resident doctors has affected patients in Mumbai badly.

The doctors want a salary hike and an increase in their monthly stipend. They have stopped working since 8 pm Tuesday.

The strike has [...]

Panaji (Goa), June 27 (ANI): Petroleum Minister Murli Deora on Saturday said that the UPA Government is monitoring international crude oil prices before deciding when to announce the next petroleum price hike.

“Unfortunately the international crude oil prices have gone up. We are watching the situation,” Deora told reporters here.

“The cabinet will discuss the [...]

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Fifty nine ministers took their oath in English and Hindi at a solemn ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday.

President Pratibha Patil administered oath of office to 38 ministers in English and 21 ministers in Hindi.

The 59 ministers will now join Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 19 other Cabinet Ministers.

The 38 [...]

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Fifty-nine ministers will take oath in the second round of cabinet expansion here today.

Dr. Singh has recommended several names to the President for inclusion in his Council of Ministers.

The names doing the rounds are that of Virbhadra Singh, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Farooq Abdullah, Dayanidhi Maran, A Raja, Mallikarjun Kharge, Kumari [...]

New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi met here today to finalise the list of ministers ahead of the cabinet expansion.

Fifty-nine ministers will take oath in the second round of cabinet [...]

Panaji, May 27 (IANS) In a new twist to the Russian Elena Sukhona story, the Russian consulate has insisted on a DNA test to establish the identity of the teenager, whose mutilated body was found on railway tracks near here.
In a letter addressed to the superintendent of police (north), official representative of the Russian consulate, [...]

Margao, Apr 13 (ANI): AICC general secretary and in charge of the Goa desk, B K Hariprasad, attacked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for terming the Congress party a ‘125-year-old lady’.

Modi has been repeatedly likening the Congress to a ‘125-year-old lady’ during his election campaign and instead asked people to vote for ‘30-year young BJP’.

Hariprasad [...]

New Delhi, Apr 12 (ANI): Easter is being celebrated in different parts of the country today.

In New Delhi, churches held sunrise service early morning on the occasion. Special services and masses have also been arranged for the day.
In Goa, Easter Sunday is being celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm. Mass and prayers have been [...]

Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Nominations for the last 10 of Maharashtra’s 48 Lok Sabha constituencies – six in Mumbai and four in neighbouring Thane that go to the polls April 30 in the third phase of elections – ended here Thursday.
Top political heavyweights who have filed nominations in the past few days include Ram Naik, [...]

Mumbai, April 7 (IANS) She is a Punjabi born in Uttar Pradesh, but she has been fielded in the Lok Sabha elections by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), a party widely perceived to be anti-north Indian. What’s more, she is a Thackeray.
Shalini Thackeray, 40, is the first daughter-in-law from the politically powerful Maharashtrian family to [...]

Panaji, April 5 (IANS) The Goa government has spent nearly Rs.1.5 crore on food and almost Rs.13 lakhs refurnishing the official residences of three senior ministers and the speaker, according to written replies given by the government to questions raised in the state assembly.
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat threw one party at Eid and another at [...]

Panaji, April 5 (IANS) The Goa government has spent nearly Rs.1.5 crore on food and almost Rs.13 lakhs refurnishing the official residences of three senior ministers and the speaker, according to written replies given by the government to questions raised in the state assembly.
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat threw one party at Eid and another at [...]

New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) For someone nicknamed Mickky, Goa Tourism Minister Francisco Pacheco is no mouse when it comes to a slugfest.
Mickky responded with a spectacular abuse for another hurled at him by the burly and brusque Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao at a joint meeting of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the [...]

Panaji, April 2 (IANS) The tug-of-war between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ruling combine for the North Goa seat in the state shows no signs of abating.
The two parties had warmed up to a unique formula to handle the ticklish North Goa seat sharing issue, after tough posturing for weeks on end.
The [...]

After piquing his adversaries within the party for the nomination from the South Central Mumbai constituency, Congress MP from North Central Mumbai Eknath Gaikwad is now gearing up for a contest against Mahim MLA Suresh Gambhir of the Shiv Sena.
Gaikwad, 69, had won a surprise victory in 2004 against Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi of [...]

Panaji, Feb 24 (ANI): The Government of Goa has given fifteen days notice to casino vessels operating on the Mandovi river to shift further down the Arabian Sea.

“They will not be allowed to anchor on River Mandovi. They can come ashore for refueling and go,” said State Chief Minister Digamber Kamat after a cabinet [...]

Panaji, Feb 12 (ANI): A two-day National Conference on e-Governance will begin in Goa today.

The conference is being organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in association with the Department of Information Technology and the Government of Goa.

Senior Officers from the Government, industry, academicians, technical experts and NGOs will participate [...]

New Delhi, Feb 11 (ANI): A two-day National Conference on e-Governance will begin in Goa tomorrow.

The conference is being organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in association with the Department of Information Technology and the Government of Goa.

Senior Officers from the Government, industry, academicians, technical experts and NGOs will [...]

Panaji (Goa), Jan 26, (ANI): Agnelo Fernandes, Goa’s Congress legislator, was arrested on Monday along with 200 other supporters for taking out a march demanding the removal of a grounded cango ship.

The cargo ship had run aground in north Goa’s candolim shore in June 2000.

River Princess Hatao Manch, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has been agitating [...]