Several controversial real estate deals by foreigners in Goa could well have been funded by proceeds from crime and narcotics trade, an Enforcement Directorate official Friday said. ”We are probing the possibility of money sourced from proceeds of crime and through sale of narcotics being used to purchase of properties,” the department’s Assistant Director Jyoti Sharma [...]
The Goa government has asked foreign tourists visiting the coastal state to be dressed appropriately, especially while driving a two wheeler. ”Never ride a two-wheeler without clothes on the upper part of the body” says an advisory issued by the state tourism department.
In what seems to be a fall out of recent statements by local politicians [...]
Russians are facing a backlash in Goa with allegations of organised crime, illegal land deals and even claims that they are “corrupting the minds” of locals in India’s popular resort state.
There have been a number of outspoken attacks against them since the start of the year, when a Russian businessman was blamed for killing a [...]
A Nepali national working as a security guard at an educational institution here was arrested on Thursday for selling drugs to college students, police said. Bahadur Bhagat Singh, 50, was arrested by the Goa Police anti narcotics cell at St Xavier’s college in Mapusa, 15 km from here, with 850 gm of hashish (charas).
“He has been [...]
Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia informed Mr. Shantaram Naik, M.P. in the Rajya Sabha today, in a written reply that the three notified SEZ proposals, which the government of Goa has requested to be denotified are presently sub-judice, and that no SEZ has been denotified.
Mr. Scindia [...]
Politically speaking, the results of the Zilla Panchayat elections in North Goa on Tuesday didn’t go in favour of any single political party or grouping even as the opposition BJP seems to have taken a beating. As if the last month’s political rumblings reflected on ZP elections, the Group of 7 MLAs, put up a fairly [...]
Goans are happy on passing of women reservation bill in Rajya Sabha.
HATS OFF TO SMT. SONIA GANDHI, UPA Chairperson and Congress President.
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Dr.Manmohan Singh, Our Beloved Prime Minister
An Israeli drug dealer surrendered to the Goa police on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Atala, alias Yaniv Banaim, a drug dealer operating in north Goa, was captured on spy camera speaking about his links to the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the state police which had triggered the suspension of five policemen, including a senior police inspector, [...]
Britain has begun advising its nationals to “observe and respect local dress and customs” while visiting Goa. In a travel advisory uploaded on the foreign Commonwealth office website in late February, female British citizens visiting Goa have been advised to: “Observe and respect local dress and customs and to take particular care,” in view of a [...]
The Children’s Court on Monday framed charges against bartender Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho alias Shana Boy in a case pertaining to sexual assault and death of British minor Scarlet Keeling whose body was found at Anjuna beach on the morning of February 19, 2008.
Both accused face multiple charges under sections of Indian Penal Code [...]
