Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat today said that the State government did not want the controversial Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the State.
Kamat, who met Congress President Sonia Gandhi today, said the people of the State are opposed to SEZs. “We do not want anything against the wishes of the people,” he added.
All India Congress […]
Political situation in Goa has, for the last thirteen years, been unstable. 13 chief ministers in 13 years! The present CM too, seems more in love with Delhi than with Goa. This has led to little developmental work in the state.
GOA IS infamous for its political instability. It has had 13 chief ministers in 13 […]
Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor suffered a dizzy spell yesterday morning at a beach here, where she is shooting for Ashtavinayak’s Golmaal Returns.
“Kareena came on the sets but soon started feeling weak and feverish. She was dizzy and couldn’t shoot till she was given papaya juice,” a unit member said.
The cast and crew of Golmaal Returns […]
April 23, 2008 – 12:27 am
The Goa government has transferred the investigation into the MMS sex scandal to the State Crime Branch from the local police, police said on Monday.
A month ago two college girls had allegedly committed suicide in Ponda, but the police had not registered a case then.
Following a demand from opposition leader Manohar Parrikar, Ponda police registered […]
April 15, 2008 – 10:55 pm
The Goa government on Tuesday clarified that it had no intention of stopping Fiona Mackeown, the British mother of rape and murder victim Scarlett Eden Keeling, from coming back to India from the UK.
“We have not written to the Home Department to stop her entry into India. Once the Central Bureau of Investigation […]
A Police sub inspector who initially goofed up Scarlett death case was dismissed from services by Goa government on Friday April 11.
Nerlon Albuquerque, whose behaviour was under scanner for British teenager death case, was dismissed from Goa police services.
Albuquerque who headed Anjuna police station on the day when British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling’s body was found on […]
The nine-month old Digamber Kamat- led Congress government in Goa may be heading for another “testing time” with “everything not well” within the coalition.
While two ministers, one each from Congress and NCP, have locked horns on developmental issues, an influential United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) legislator Atanasio Monserratte is lobbying hard for a ministerial berth.
Adding […]
March 29, 2008 – 10:35 pm
The irony of mulling the stereotype that Goa has become, while sitting with foreigners, entertainers and socialites, isn’t a worry.
THE GOA DEBATE CONTINUES. Armed with a lethal cocktail of sex, drugs, violence and encompassing issues like gender, parenting, clash between cultures and political venality, it is easy to see why it occupies us so much. […]
March 28, 2008 – 10:56 pm
The Goa government on Friday enacted a new registration act making it utmost difficult for foreigners to buy lands in the state.
State Law Minister Dayanand Narvekar, presenting the new legislation in the House, said the government has taken a policy decision to “ban foreigners from buying properties in the state”.
Goa has recently witnessed unprecedented rush […]
The Planning Commission on Tuesday finalised a budget outlay of Rs. 1,737.65-crore including a Central assistance of Rs. 35 crore to Goa for the next fiscal of 2008-09. This year’s outlay is 21% more then last year’s budget.
The plan was finalised at a meeting held in New Delhi between Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek […]
