Panaji, April 10 Amit Palekar, the former president of the Goa unit of the Aam Aadmi Party, joined the Congress on Friday.Palekar, who had been projected as the AAP's chief ministerial candidate during the 2022 elections, recently resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.He was inducted...
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Panaji, March 30 The Goa BJP posted on social media photographs of a councilor, whose son has been arrested for alleged involvement in a sex scandal, along with Congress leaders, and asked if this was the reason the opposition party was "hyperactive in trying to present a different narrative"...
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Panaji, March 30 The Goa BJP posted on social media photographs of a councilor, whose son has been arrested for alleged involvement in a sex scandal, along with Congress leaders, and asked if this was the reason the opposition party was "hyperactive in trying to present a different narrative."...
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Panaji, March 23 Candidates from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as the Opposition Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, filed their nominations on Monday for the upcoming Ponda assembly by-election in Goa.The BJP has fielded Ritesh Naik, the Congress has given a ticket to Dr Ketan...
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Panaji, March 18 The opposition Congress party has announced Dr. Ketan Bhatikar as its candidate for the upcoming Ponda assembly by-election in Goa.The by-election to the Ponda constituency in South Goa is scheduled for April 9, necessitated by the death of the sitting BJP MLA and former...
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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...
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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 12 Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Thursday that there is no shortage of LPG for domestic use, even as long queues were witnessed outside cooking gas cylinder distributors across the coastal state.The supply of LPG for commercial establishments has been affected amid the...
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Panaji, March 9 Goa Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho on Monday criticised the tourist taxi lobby for opposing app-based services, saying it was damaging the coastal state's tourism reputation.The tourist taxi operators are not willing to use the apps, which is severely affecting services and...
Panaji, February 26 Opposition legislators in Goa met Governor P Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Thursday, requesting him to convene a special session of the assembly to discuss a controversial provision of the Town and Country Planning Act.MLA Viresh Borkar of the Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) has...
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Panaji, February 24 MLA Viresh Borkar of the Revolutionary Goans Party, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding the repeal of a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act, has been shifted to the hospital after his health deteriorated.Opposition parties, led by Borkar, have...
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Panaji, February 23 Hundreds of people protested on Monday in front of the private residence of Goa Minister Vishwajit Rane, demanding the repeal of a section of the Town and Country Planning Act that allows the conversion of non-settlement zones into settlement zones, thereby facilitating...
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