Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Assembly elections in Goa and with that, the hardest fall came for the Alemao family. All four members of the family lost their seats including Goa ministers Churchill and Joaquim. In fact, seven of 12 'family' candidates fielded by the Congress were trounced as Goa rejected family raj. Goa PWD minister Churchill Alemao, his brother and urban development minister Joaquim Alemao, Churchill's...
06:58 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Watch the special show on the politics of Goa, which is set to go for vote on March 3. ...
11:28 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Panaji: More than one-third of the 40 seats in the Goa Assembly up for grabs have been cornered by half a dozen families. The Assembly Elections of 2012 could well see the creation of a feudal political elite in the state as the Congress battles charges of growing nepotism. It has been called dinner table politics as the elite families club together. The question that Goa will answer in elections...
09:41 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Goa: As Goa goes to the polls early next month, the issue of corruption and land are foremost. An income tax investigation has exposed how politicians are conspiring with real estate and land sharks to sell Goa for a song. Indicted in the income tax order, which has been accessed by CNN-IBN, is minister Babush Monserrate who is being fielded by the Congress in the upcoming polls. Monserate got kickbacks...
06:24 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Mumbai/Panaji: Goa's controversial Education Minister, Atanasio Babush Monserrate, was questioned for over six hours by the Customs Department in Mumbai on Saturday. After Monserrate failed to explain why he was carrying about Rs 25 lakh worth unaccounted cash, a case was registered against him under the Customs and the Foreign Exchange Management Act. Monserrate, a member of the Congress party, was caught with the cash last week at the Mumbai...
01:02 PM, Apr 09, 2011
Goa state minister Babush Monserrate is caught in a new controversy. This time, for being held at the Mumbai airport with foreign exchange over and above the legal limit. ...
09:31 AM, Apr 07, 2011
New Delhi: Goa state minister Babush Monserrate is caught in a new controversy. This time, for being held at the Mumbai airport with foreign exchange over and above the legal limit. Controversies are not new for this Monserrate. With 13 criminal cases against him, including one of attacking a police station, Monserrate is in the eye of another storm. He was detained at the Mumbai Airport just before boarding a...
08:29 AM, Apr 07, 2011
A Congress MP says tourists shouldn't be friendly with strangers. ...
07:42 AM, Dec 17, 2009
A children's court has ordered framing of charges against Rohit Monserrate. ...
12:25 PM, Apr 30, 2009
The German girl's mother claimed she was being harassed. ...
12:51 PM, Nov 10, 2008
The victims mother had alleged that a minister's son had raped the minor. ...
01:10 PM, Oct 23, 2008
Fadela's lawyer said this at a press conference on Saturday. ...
06:42 PM, Oct 18, 2008
Rape charges have been levied against Monserrate's son. ...
12:08 PM, Oct 17, 2008
From real estate fiasco to abetting rape, Monserrate has been part of controversies. ...
12:13 PM, Oct 16, 2008
Education minister Monserrate was only recently sworn in. ...
09:09 AM, Sep 22, 2008
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