Mumbai: So what if Salman Khan couldn't make it to Goa for the wedding of his friend David Dhawan's son? He made sure his family members represented him well while he was busy shooting for Kabir Khan's 'Ek Tha Tiger' in far-off Cuba. Salman has done successful films like 'Judwaa' and 'Biwi No.1' with Dhawan, whose son Rohit got married in Goa Friday. The wedding was attended by several Bollywood...
03:02 PM, Feb 12, 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
Panaji: Days ahead of the Assembly elections in Goa, a BJP MLA on Friday resigned on being refused party ticket amidst indications that he might join Congress. Vijay Pai Khot, representing Canacona, submitted his resignation to Speaker Pratapsingh Rane. He is the fourth legislator to quit ahead of the March 3 polls. BJP MLAs Rajesh Patnekar and Dayanand Sopte had resigned last month and joined the ruling Congress while former...
05:39 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Panaji: Five political families from Goa have cornered nearly one-third of Congress tickets for the March 3 assembly elections. And there's more to come. Two kins of Goa's cabinet ministers are likely to figure in Congress alliance partner Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) ticket list expected to be released later this week. Three Congress nominations have been given to the Alemao clan, namely Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao (Navelim), his...
04:36 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Panaji: The Goa unit of Congress on Thursday expressed displeasure over an income tax raid on the residence of a Catholic priest after an anonymous caller claimed that the he was parking money for a minister. The official residence of Fr Romano Gonsalves, a parish priest of St Francis Xavier Church, Velim, was on Monday searched by Income Tax officials currently on deputation with State Election Commission. "The income tax...
03:26 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Panaji: The Goa BJP on Thursday said that porn scandal involving ministers from the party in the neighbouring Karnataka will not affect its prospects in March 3 Assembly polls in Goa. "These are small things. We are not fighting the election in Karnataka," BJP leader and former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said. "There are people all across the country who do worse things. Congress leaders have chopped women and burnt...
08:57 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Panaji: In a bind over largescale dissidence in the party ahead of March 3 Goa Assembly polls, the Congress poll managers are pulling all stops to placate the dissenters who have raised the banner of revolt after being denied tickets. The anxiety in Congress is palpable from the fact that the ruling party has withheld announcing its third and final list of four candidates out of 33 seats it is...
12:46 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Panaji: The Congress in Goa continued to face trouble in its ranks over distribution of poll tickets for the March 3 Assembly polls with more leaders leaving the party. As the ruling party, which has released names of 29 candidates, struggled to put up a united face, senior leader Oscar Fernandes arrived here to talk to dissidents. Dinar Tarcar, a senior Congressman who was pitted against BJP's Manohar Parrikar in...
02:36 AM, Feb 09, 2012
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06:11 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: It's kith and kin galore in the second list of Congress for Goa polls announced on Tuesday, days after the selection of first batch of candidates sparked off a virtual rebellion in the state unit. The list of seven candidates announced by Congress has the names of Uday D Palekar, Jennifer Monserrate, Pandurang Arjun, Madkalkar Dhaku A Madkaiker, Ritesh Ravi Naik, Alexio Reginaldo Lourenco and Valenka Alemao from...
07:43 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday banned exit polls till March 3, till the completion of assembly elections in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. In a notification issued on Tuesday, it also banned release of opinion polls in any manner on electronic media under Section 126 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 during period of 48 hours, counted backwards from close of...
06:15 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Panaji: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari's recent two-day visit to Goa appears to have done more damage than good to the party's image, ahead of the March 3 assembly election. When Gadkari flew down to Goa on February 4, one of his major agendas was to cap the aggravating feud between two party heavyweights - North Goa MP Shripad Naik and state assembly's leader of opposition Manohar Parrikar...
05:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Schedule for the Budget session of Parliament will be decided on Tuesday amidst indications that the Union Budget 2012-13 may be presented around the middle of March. Meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be held on Tuesday to decide the schedule of the session which is generally a three-month affair. Talk in political circles is that the address...
10:17 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Panaji: Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) on Monday announced the first list of four candidates for the next month's Goa assembly polls. MGP's working president, Narayan Sawant, told that the parliamentary committee of the party had cleared the candidatures of Ramakrishna Dhavalikar (Madkai), Deepak Dhavalikar (Priol), Prakash Arjun Velip (Quepem) and Lavu Mamlatdar (Ponda). The party has sewn up an alliance with the main opposition BJP. Accordingly, MGP will be contesting...
08:05 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Panaji, Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has announced a list of 22 candidates for the forthcoming Goa polls. The list, which was announced on Sunday night, includes names of its prominent leaders, except its Member of Parliament Sripad Naik, who has refused to contest. Party's central election committee, which met in Delhi on Sunday night, with the party national president Nitin Gadkari as its head, finalised the list. Ananth Kumar, party's...
11:00 AM, Feb 06, 2012
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