It’s not just Congress leaders who have been beneficiaries of the iron ore mining business in Goa. Affidavits filed with the Election Commission ahead of Assembly polls in 2012 have revealed that at least four sitting BJP MLAs are beneficiaries of the mining trade either as iron ore dealers or transport contractors. Nilesh Cabral, MLA [...]
A radical political shift, cheap petrol and the ban on mining ensured that Goa remained in the limelight in 2012. The year’s first big surprise was the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) romped to power, trouncing the Congress-led coalition government whose ministers were battling severe corruption allegations. Even Chief Minister Digmabar Kamat [...]
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s one-day visit to Goa failed to resolve bickering within the state Congress after its defeat in the March assembly elections, a party member said. “There were charges and counter charges. Rahul Gandhi heard the leaders patiently, but nothing concrete came out of the four to five-hour meeting,” an AICC memnber [...]
Calangute MLA Michael Lobo and Sanguem MLA Subash Phaldesai were on Saturday elected district presidents of the North Goa and South Goa BJP district committees respectively. BJP party sources said that both will now hold the posts of district presidents till 2014. The district presidents will also now appoint their respective district committees. [...]
“A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study for which he is responsible. He must himself be a master in the field of study and be in touch with the latest developments in the subject. He must himself be a fellow traveler in the exciting [...]
