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Panaji, April 9 The Goa state assembly by-election in Ponda was cancelled due to a "political conspiracy" between the Election Commission of India and the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Thursday.The Bombay High Court on Wednesday quashed the Election Commission's notification for the...

Panaji, April 9 Coastal states have turned their challenges into opportunities, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonstrated this while serving as the chief minister of Gujarat, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Thursday.Delivering the inaugural address at the Commonwealth Parliamentary...

Panaji, March 23 Viresh Borkar, an MLA from the Revolutionary Goans Party, has moved a motion in the Goa assembly against Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar, alleging serious procedural violations and a "pre-determined" conduct of proceedings during the Budget Session, which was curtailed on March 16.The...

Panaji, March 18 MLAs from the Congress, AAP, and the Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) in Goa met Governor P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Wednesday to protest the shortened budget session and demanded that the assembly be reconvened.The budget session was shortened on Monday following the...

Panaji, March 17 The Goa Congress launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led state government on Tuesday, accusing it of using the Model Code of Conduct as a pretext to curtail the assembly's budget session, thereby denying Goans their right to accountability.The Goa budget session was...

Panaji, March 17 Goa Governor P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, and other senior leaders paid tribute to former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the occasion of his death anniversary.Several leaders gathered at Parrikar's memorial at Miramar Beach, where he was...

Panaji, March 13 Opposition MLAs protested in the Goa assembly on Friday after Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar disallowed them from introducing their private member's bills.The House was adjourned three times as Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao, Congress MLAs Carlos Alvares Ferreira and Altone D'Cruz...

Panaji, March 10 Goa Forward Party (GFP) MLA Vijai Sardesai apologized to the state assembly on Tuesday over a protest staged by a group of people in the visitors' gallery in the House, after his office issued entry passes to them.Four people were arrested on March 6 after they protested...

Panaji, March 10 Goa Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar warned ministers on Tuesday against disruptive behavior during the ongoing state assembly session, including shouting and ridiculing members.The Speaker, who did not refer to any specific instance, stated that he had observed a recurring pattern of...

Panaji, March 9 Goa assembly speaker Ganesh Gaonkar on Monday asked GFP MLA Vijai Sardesai to apologize within 24 hours in connection with an anti-dam protest by four private individuals inside the House.The protest, seeking the scrapping of a proposed dam project on the Zuari river at Mirabag...

Panaji, March 6 Four people were detained on Friday after they staged a protest from the visitors' gallery in the Goa assembly on the opening day of the budget session, over the proposed dam on the Zuari River.The protest drew criticism from Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who called the...