Panaji: The BJP managed to wrest Goa from the Congress with a decisive mandate. The party won a majority 21 of the 40 assembly seats as four in every five voters rejected the Congress. The party was decimated to the single digit of nine seats. Manohar Parrikar, the face of the BJP's campaign in Goa and the man set to become the Chief Minister believes it was a referendum on...
07:44 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Panaji: Ahead of the Goa Assembly polls on March 3, the NCP has sent a report informing about "dissensions" within the state unit to the party high command. The report speaks about the differences within the party organisation and also dispute between local leaders and state observer Bharti Chawan, sources said. "I have submitted the factual report to the high command. Now it is up to them to take action,"...
12:50 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Panaji: A crucial meeting of the Congress to finalise the first list of candidates for Goa Assembly election would be held on Tuesday in Delhi. Party sources here said Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Subhash Shirodkar and some other leaders have already left for the national capital to participate in the Screening Committee meeting. After the Screening Committee clears the list, it will be put up...
12:41 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Panaji: The Church in Goa Thursday accused the Congress-led governments in New Delhi and Goa of being insensitive to local sentiments and 'foisting' a film festival on a state heading to the biggest event in its socio-religious calendar, the feast of Spanish saint Francis Xavier. The Church was 'appalled' by the 'evasive' responses by union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on the rescheduling of...
06:24 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Margao: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan Wednesday turned an otherwise drab official function into a rib-tickling affair by offering to strip and reveal his bermudas on stage at the inauguration of the 42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Shah Rukh, the chief guest at the inauguration of the 11-day festival, was at his hilarious best and had union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni and Goa Chief Minister...
12:00 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Panaji: The Congress, heading the ruling coalition in Goa, on Sunday said Chief Minister Digambar Kamat will not be projected as its candidate for the top post in the run up to next year's Assembly elections. Jagmeet Singh Brar, Congress' Goa desk in-charge, told that the party will not project anybody as its chief ministerial candidate during the polls likely in June. "We will decide about the Chief Minister only...
04:48 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Goa: There has been a new twist in the illegal mining scam in Goa as Speaker Pratapsinh Rane reconstituted the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Saturday. Manohar Parrikkar has been removed as the PAC chief and BJP's Vijay Khot has been made the new PAC Chairman. It is believed that Khot will join the Congress in a couple of weeks. The Manohar Parrikkar-headed PAC had given a report on the...
11:17 AM, Oct 08, 2011
Panaji: Goa Assembly Speaker Pratapsingh Rane on Thursday hinted that he might not take the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the mining scam seriously. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Rane said that it was only a draft report as Congress members had not signed it. "We are in a democracy so the majority view should be taken into consideration," he said. He, however, said that he was going through the report....
01:33 PM, Oct 06, 2011
A PAC report has indicted Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat in illegal mining scam. ...
09:58 PM, Oct 05, 2011
A PAC report indicted the mining department, the forest department along with Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. ...
08:22 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who is facing heat over the illegal mining issue, on Wednesday told the state Legislative Assembly that `truth will prevail'. "We have not exceeded the Environment Clearance (EC) limits," Kamat told the house during the discussion on the appropriation bill. He said the government had taken all the precautions to prevent illegal mining. "Ultimately, truth will prevail because there are records to support it."...
07:33 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Goa: After a PAC report indicted the mining department, the forest department and the police department along with Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who holds the mining portfolio, the Chief Minister is under pressure to resign. Though some Congress MLA's, who are members of the PAC, have refused to sign the report calling it biased, it will be submitted to the Speaker on Wednesday. The report claims that 35 per...
08:39 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Goa: In what may come as partial relief for Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, the Goa Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has failed to adopt the report on illegal mining in the state which indicts Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. But the Congress has submitted the report to its Chief Sonia Gandhi. It is being seen as Kamat's BS Yeddyurappa moment. Faced with charges that several Congress ministers and MLAs were...
11:24 PM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: Seeking the removal of Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat for his alleged involvement in the mining scam, BJP on Tuesday charged the "dirty money" from the scandal was being used to run the ruling party at the Centre and in that state. "BJP demands that a CBI inquiry should be held in the mining scam in Goa and the Chief Minister should be removed," party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman...
08:09 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Goa: The Goa Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has failed to adopt the report on illegal mining in the state indicting Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. The Goa PAC Chairman said that the rules do not ask for a majority to adopt the report. The Chairman also said that the contents of the report indicting the Chief Minister and several other top functionaries remain unchanged. The Speaker will now decide whether...
04:08 PM, Oct 04, 2011
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