Panaji: There is more trouble for the Congress in Goa. Outgoing Goa minister Churchill Alemao has reportedly blamed chief minister Digamber Kamat for his defeat. He said Kamat worked against him. Alemao, who contested from Navelim, and three of his family members had lost the elections. Meanwhile, Digambar Kamat said the Congress lost because they did not project him as the Chief Ministerial candidate. ...
09:40 PM, Mar 08, 2012
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
Panaji: Many of the Congress stalwarts including four from Churchill Alemao family and state party chief Subhas Shirodkar bit the dust as the BJP-MGP alliance on Tuesday managed to bag majority of seats in Goa Assembly elections. Congress NCP ministers including Churchill Alemao, Joaquim Alemao, Manohar Asgaonkar, Filip Nery Rodrigues, Jose Philip Dsouza, Nilkant Halarnkar and others lost the polls to the new faces mostly fielded by BJP-MGP as election...
04:11 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Panaji: Elections to the 40-member Legislative Assembly in Goa will be held on Saturday, where 10.25 lakh voters will decide the fate of 215 candidates, including nine women and 74 independents in the fray. The coastal state is the first in the country to adopt Poll Monitoring System in the assembly elections. Under the system, photographs and fingerprints of all voters will be captured on computers. The voting will begin...
11:50 AM, Mar 02, 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
Panaji: Two Congress ministers in Goa, who had resigned from the state Cabinet and the party on Sunday, have decided to reconsider their exit after meeting the party high command. Upset over the disqualification of Churchill's daughter Valanka from Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (GPYCC) elections, Churchill and Joaquim Alemao, both Congress ministers in Kamat Cabinet, had submitted their resignation. On Monday night, Churchill Alemao told PTI from Delhi that...
09:59 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Saturday said he had asked the Alemao brothers, who resigned from the cabinet on Saturday afternoon, to wait for a while and discuss their grievance with the Congress High Command. Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao had earlier said that he and his and his brother, Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao, had sent in their resignations from the cabinet this afternoon. This followed...
07:49 PM, Jul 23, 2011
CNN-IBN spoke to owner of Churchill Brothers,Churchill Alemao. ...
02:26 AM, Jan 07, 2010
Congress Rajya Sabha MP asks media not to play up rape cases. ...
07:19 PM, Dec 15, 2009
Ex-CM Churchill Alemao plays down attacks on foreigners. ...
11:39 PM, Dec 11, 2009
PWD Minister Churchill Alemao allegedly beat up the guards. ...
11:49 PM, Aug 13, 2009
There's been a new twist in the rape case of the German girl in Goa. ...
02:47 AM, Oct 25, 2008
Ahead of the assembly polls in Goa in June, Cong faces several critical issues including a revolt by MP Churchill Alemao. ...
12:22 PM, Apr 29, 2007
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