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Carnival de Goa Ushers in Festive Mood at Deira Sheraton
2008-01-25 16:30:00 The Carnival festival of Goa was organized by United Friends under the leadership of Remy Fernandes at Hotel Deira Sheraton on Thursday January 24 night. Remy has been organizing these kinds of shows in Goa for the last 3 years. Purple Rain, well-known band from Goa has been coming for this carnival for all these 3 ... More About: Articles , Mood
Goa: A transit point for illegal drug shipments
2008-01-24 14:59:00 Goa is in the midst of a peak tourist season. The small state in western India, a former hippie paradise in late 60s and 70s, welcomed some 3.5 million foreign tourists last season. Beginning of the new season and a host of challenges and ills await. THE FIRST charter flight flew into Goa in the first ... More About: Articles , Drug , Point , Illegal , Transit
Govt mulls benefits for NRIs with ?Goa Card?
2008-01-24 14:50:00 In a move aimed at giving faster access and attention to Goan expatriates at government departments, the office of the Commissioner for NRI Affairs is issuing them what is termed as ?Goa Card ?. This was revealed by the NRI Commissioner, Eduardo Faleiro to the Arab Times in an interview recently in his office at the ... More About: Articles , Benefits , Govt
Goa: Unique Music Concert to Protect Environment
2008-01-23 15:36:00 A group of musicians from different parts of the world will reunite after a gap of nearly four years for the cause of protecting Indian environment by holding a special concert on Goa?s shores on January 25.Chinmaya Dunster and the Celtic Ragas Band will be performing in a unique environment awareness concert at Baga, a ... More About: Music , Environment , Articles , Concert , Unique
Global Spices Congress in Goa to be major hit
2008-01-23 15:31:00 The World Spices Congress to be held in Goa from January 28 to 30 has attracted 150 delegates from 33 countries and over 225 Indian delegates. According to a press note from the Spices Board, there has been a phenomenal rise in global participation with the number of international delegates nearing the 150-mark. The profile of delegates ... More About: Articles , Global , Major
Goa?s SEZ rumpus
2008-01-23 15:28:00 It was a grand populist gesture. Buffeted by protests against special economic zones (SEZ) in the state, the Goa government decided on December 31 to cancel all SEZs in the state. Goa has three notified SEZs and several others in the pipeline. That may have brought peace on New Year?s Eve (agitators had asked tourists to ... More About: Articles
Goa CM against Centre?s SEZ plans
2008-01-22 18:50:00 On New Year?s eve, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat declared that his government had decided ?to do away with? the special economic zones (sezs) in their present form and had asked the centre to de-notify the approved sezs. This is, however, easier said than done. Disparate voices have emerged from the Union Commerce Ministry in regard ... More About: Articles , Plans , Centre
All Systems Goa!
2008-01-22 18:42:00 Indian football has been referred to as a sleeping giant by former Asian Football Confederation secretary Peter Velappen. And Sepp Blatter, the president of international football governing body FIFA, has some special plans for the world’s second most populous country. The recently remodeled professional league in India, the I-League, was launched in November last year and ... More About: Articles , Systems
Probe complaint against Goa Minister: court
2008-01-22 18:38:00 Police have failed to register FIR against Narvekar: petitioner ?Discretionary allotments caused loss to exchequer? The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the town police to expeditiously investigate the complaint filed by a socio-political group against Information and Technology Minister Dayanand Narvekar and others in connection with land allotment under the controversial IT ... More About: Articles , Complaint , Probe
Committee formed to resolve Goa crisis
2008-01-21 18:37:00 Just a couple of days after the Goa crisis was averted Chief Minister Digambar Kamat met Sonia Gandhi on Monday. All the state coalition parties, including the Save Goa front, which has merged with the Congress, have decided to form a coordination committee to resolve all pending issues. Former chief minister Churchill Alemao merged his Save Goa ... More About: Politics , Articles , Crisis , Committee
Goa SEZs issue referred to Law Ministry
2008-01-21 16:30:00 The Commerce Ministry has sought Law Ministry’s opinion on Goa government’s proposal to scrap Special Economic Zones, especially those that have already been notified. “We have sent it (the Goa SEZ issue) to the Law Ministry,” Commerce Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Approval G K Pillai told reporters here today. Pillai had earlier said that ... More About: Articles , Issue
Viva Carnival: Goa Carnival celebrations to begin on Feb 2
2008-01-20 18:59:00 The state Carnival will be flagged off on February 2 in the city at 4 p.m followed by parades in Margao, Vasco/ Curchorem and Mapusa during next three days, respectively, with stringent guidelines governing the participating floats. The managing director of the Goa Tourism Development Corporation, Mr Sanjeet Rodrigues told newsmen this evening that the highlight ... More About: Articles , Celebrations , Viva
World Spice Congress to be held in Goa
2008-01-20 10:03:00 Focus on harmonisation of food safety regulations The 9th World Spice Congress will be held from January 28 to 30 in Goa on the theme of ?Harmonisation ? the emerging global need.? Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh will inaugurate the congress, which will deliberate on various , regulations worldwide and new common food laws ... More About: Articles , Held
Goa crisis blows over, Kamat to continue as CM
2008-01-19 19:10:00 The crisis engulfing the Congress-led coalition in Goa appears to have blown over amid hints that beleaguered Chief Minister Digamber Kamat will have to make some changes in his cabinet to keep the allies in good humour. NCP leader Praful Patel, who announced after day-long consultations among all concerned parties that the four-day old crisis has ... More About: Politics , Articles , Breaking News , Crisis
Goa University honours Lata Mangeshkar
2008-01-19 06:01:00 Veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar received her latest honor - a D Lit from the Goa University - at her Mumbai residence. She couldn?t make it to the felicitation due to ill health, but her greater regret of not being able to make it to Goa, relates to something else. Mangeshkar says, ?Goa is special for me ... More About: Articles , Honours
Goa crisis: Rebel MLAs want their pound of flesh
2008-01-19 05:56:00 Goa’s political crisis is far from getting resolved even after the hectic lobbying between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday. All through Friday, NCP and Congress crisis managers were kept busy, trying to seal a deal with the rebels to save the Digambar Kamat government. The pact proposed reportedly included making controversial unattached ... More About: Politics , Articles , Goa , Rebel , Pound
Goa Crisis - Jamir?s sins
2008-01-18 14:30:00 How many constitutional excesses before you are made to pay ? Normally in a functioning democracy the first constitutional transgression should be enough to either impeach, dismiss or force a resgination. But not so in our Constitutional Lab, for in this lab one can experiment the many ways in which the Constitution can be allowed to mutate ... More About: Politics , Articles , Goa , Sins , Crisis
Wedding in Goa ends in tragedy
2008-01-18 14:26:00 Goa is a beautiful holiday resort in India At least 12 people are charred to death and 10 others seriously burnt in Goa when their tourist bus collides with a tanker filled with acid. Among the dead are 10 non-resident Indians (NRIs) mostly from Britain and France, who were accompanying a newly-wed couple just married on January ... More About: Articles , Tragedy , Wedding , Ends
Sonia steps in for damage control in Goa
2008-01-18 14:23:00 Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat arrived in New Delhi on Friday morning even as the political crisis in his state continues. The immediate threat to his government though has been put off, as the state Assembly stands prorogued. Kamat will hold consultations with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday evening. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Union ... More About: Politics , Articles , Breaking News , Goa
Goa Crisis: Stop taking voters for a ride
2008-01-17 13:49:00 As the Congress-led government in Goa plunged into minority, hungry politicians are back to what they do best - playing political games that make a mockery of the electoral process. Once again a clutchful of MLAs is virtually holding a whole state to ransom by holding out the threat of withdrawing support to the Congress Govt. ... More About: Politics , Articles , Breaking News , Ride
Congress leaders rush to Goa to assess situation
2008-01-17 10:05:00 Initiating troubleshooting mission, AICC leaders on Thursday airdashed to Goa to assess the situation even as the Goa cabinet recommended to the Speaker to prorogue the legislative assembly. The seven-month-old Digamabar Kamat government had yesterday plunged into a minority with its alliance partner NCP and an independent legislator Vishwajit Rane withdrawing support. In a bid to salvage ... More About: Politics , Congress , Articles , Breaking News
Goa government on verge of collapse
2008-01-17 05:52:00 The seven-month old Goa government may be on the verge of collapse as three NCP MLAs threaten to withdraw from the coalition. However, Congress Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is hoping that NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s intervention may help the situation. Pawar has reportedly assured the Congress that the NCP would not withdraw support. He added that ... More About: Politics , Government , Collapse , Articles , Breaking News
Goa crisis: NCP may withdraw support
2008-01-16 19:06:00 Barely seven months after coming to power, the Congress-led government in Goa is on the verge of collapse. Goa’s earstwhile tourism minister Micky Pachecho claimed that the NCP may withdraw support to the ruling Kamat government on Thursday. A total of three ministers, including two belonging to NCP, namely Mickey Pacheko and Jose Philip D’Souza, alongwith independent ... More About: Politics , Articles , Breaking News , Support
Congress government in Goa faces revolt
2008-01-16 14:38:00 Goa Assembly Speaker Pratapsingh Rane adjourned the house till Thursday following a crisis in the Congress -led Government . Some ministers along with a few Congress legislators are reportedly unhappy with the government and have expressed their unhappiness with the way Finance Minister Dayanand Narvekar has been functioning. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, however, ruled out that there was any ... More About: Politics , Articles , Breaking News
Build own Zuari Bridge: Opposition
2008-01-16 10:35:00 The Goa Assembly on Tuesday witnessed rumblings on the issue of a new parallel bridge across River Zuari with the Opposition benches demanding that the State government proceed with its own plans for a new bridge rather than wait for Central assistance in the matter. Both Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar and the Goa Assembly Speaker ... More About: Articles , Build , Bridge
Goa: Criminal Trial of Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane Begins
2008-01-15 12:28:00 The criminal trial of Goa ’s health minister Vishwajeet Rane in the threat to kill “Utt Goenkara” spokesman Aires Rodrigues case began before Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Panaji Edgar Fernandes. In his 45-minute deposition before the JMFC today Aires Rodrigues told the court that on 31 July 2007 while he was at his Ribandar office he ... More About: Health , Articles , Breaking News , Trial
CNN-IBN Indian of the Year nomination is for all Goans: Rebello
2008-01-15 11:55:00 Reacting to his nomination to the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2007 award in the Public Service category, the convenor of the Goa Bachao Abhiyan, Dr Oscar Rebello today said that the nomination is not for one individual but for the GBA and for the people of Goa. Speaking to The Navhind Times, Dr Rebello said ... More About: Articles , Nomination
Habitat plots sans IT infrastructure to be reverted: Dayanand
2008-01-15 11:51:00 After being put on the mat over IT Habitat in the Assembly, Minister for Information Technology Dayanand Narvekar said that land allotted for the project at Dona Paula would be reverted to the government if IT infrastructure was not put in place by the allottees. Narvekar told the House today that plots have been allotted at ... More About: Politics , Articles , Infrastructure , Goa
SEZs: The avoidable Goa tangle
2008-01-14 10:45:00 If an environmental impact assessment study had been carried out before the grant of approval for Goa?s SEZs, the present tangle could have been avoided. The only question is who should have woken up earlier, the Goa government or the Government of India. The Special Economic Zone scheme launched by the Government, initially as part of ... More About: Articles
Goan group donates Rs100,000 to shelter
More articles from this author:2008-01-14 10:30:00 The center is run in collaboration with the Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King, under the bishop of Goa, and is supported by Goa State Aids Control Society. GWA president Simon D?Silva handed over a cheque to Sister Veenita during a function at the Asro centre. Also present were Cavelossim parish priest Nelson Colaco, former state ... More About: Articles , Group , Shelter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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