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- Goa's demand for special status rejected by centre. Shantaram Naik was told in Rajya Sabha that demand is not justifiable. |
- Goa government to create a detention centre to house illegal foreigners and deport them. Will withdraw minor cases to allow for immediate deportation. |
- Speaker announces formation of legislative forum for deliberating and creating awareness on HIV |
- CM says Fatima school was responsible for leaking the students' information on HIV |
- Chief Minister warns of criminal action against landlords who rent out premises without verification |
- No Special Status for Goa. Goa's demand for special status is unjustifiable: Central govt tells in Rajya Sabha when Shantaram Naik raised the question. |
- Govt will not tolerate moral policing. Govt's policy has not changed: Parrikar told House on Bikini issue |
- Supreme Court grants bail to Miccky Pacheco. The Supreme Court also granted him exemption from surrendering. He was charged of slapping a junior engineer. The High Court had upheld Mickky's sentence for 3 months. |
Top News
- Goa is not ‘Special’, says India
- Salcete’s rain no match for Special Status rejection storm
- Rivona school role will be probed: Parrikar
- Everyone’s a winner in this Avaz
- Want to live longer? Just run for 10 minutes daily
- Fr Rebello tears into Rane, Parrikar
- Land title: Govt may add clause to transfer rights
- Serula scam: DySP Dias got plot on false affidavit
- Sending Regional Plan to House Committee doesn’t hit home
- Civil Society feels Diggu govt was more open to suggestions
- Navelim gets Rs 150 crore sewerage project
- 3 women caught shoplifting clothes on CCTV
- Sr Rane’s Mopa stand contradicts CLP
- Time for RP at last: House Committee for RP finalisation
- Speeding bus rams tree in Sattari, 29 injured
- Francis says sorry for his remarks
- Serula plot scam probe proceeds at lightning pace
- Infrastructure usage scheme by Aug 31: CM
- Govt to re-tender modified mediclaim scheme in 7 days
- Horticulture Corp to reduce tomato prices by 20 per cent
- Uneasiness in Salcete over ‘Hindu Rashtra’ remarks
- Shobhika tried to move Pele out of the way so that she could escape after the mishap
- Dy CM buckles, says was referring to Hindu culture
- GFDO demands freeze on Mopa Airport works
- Solution to garbage lies in your hands, Dy CM tells citizens
- Cashew saplings planted in mining area
- Rachol reiterates opposition to bridge
- My brother did nothing wrong: Sudin
- Congress to take up Goa ministers’ remarks in Parliament
- I can get Rane replaced: John
- Two boys whose futures are crippled because one driver couldn’t hold her drink
- Demand for de-notifying RP-21 within a month
- Cong for disqualification of Deepak, Francis
- Angered over suspension, Valanka calls Digvijai a hypocrite
- Dy CM sings to Dhavalikar tune, says India already Hindu nation
- Land to SEZ promoters kick starts sleeping people’s movement
- Arguments heard on Ranes’ anticipatory bail application
- Four Tivim Comunidade members held for misappropriation of funds
- Ex-member of Serula Comunidade remanded
- Collector steps in to maintain status quo at Aquem school
- Cong dharna in Margao over price rise
- Govt to let SEZ promoters keep 30% of their “illegally allotted” land
- Regional Plan: It will still not be done
- Burglars loot Bambolim shrine of gold items, cash
- CM: Don’t worry, money will flow
- Stray dogs invade Salcete
- Colva hotel project in housing complex opposed
- Bike racing issue raised in House
- Disciplinary action against police on the rise in Goa
- Accused had videos of kids being raped
- Rs 17.60 lakh spent on Modi’s oath-taking event
- Ambelim shopkeepers to face VP music
- ‘Money for licence’ ruckus at Curca meet
- Locals demand action in Bicholim youth’s death case
- ‘Matanhy’s village Cansaulim neglected by BJP govt’
- Mr Parrikar, when will you take the interest of common people and give them a Regional Plan
- State child rights panel demands readmission to 13 HIV+ students
- Swamy attacks Church over handling of HIV+ students
- Support pours in for Kannadigas from Baina
- Tourists beware, drink on beaches at your own risk
- Mining schemes extended
- Police rule out role of Anjuna resort
- It will be a Parrikar Vs Sardesai show
- Clients arranged for Orissa 16-yr-old at Baga resort
- ‘Mine owners should control greed’
- FIMI favours mining leases for 30 yrs
- Deshprabhu demoted
- Fresh MMC sopo tender soon
- 16-year-old Orissa girl sold to and raped by 12 men in 6 days, was brought to Goa for repeat acts
- High-level committee to assess pollution on Goa beaches
- Have the Rivona parents realised how insensitive and thoughtless they are?
- Row over admission to HIV+ students rages, ‘other’ parents want ‘positive’ students to go
- HIV/AIDS: Myths vs Reality
- Ranchi DySP warns action against Goa cops
- Ranes anticipatory bail plea adjourned
- Baina hutment dwellers told to vacate
- Wanchoo sends evacuee property bill back to govt
- Airports: Goa,4 other states submit plans
- The inside story of how Dahej Minerals illegally exploited ore without ever having a mining lease
- Abida Beig’s bruises have healed, but the pain remains
- Rs 5.5 cr worth gold seized at Dabolim
- Interstate car theft racket busted, two arrested
- Gov Wanchoo told CBI what they already know about the VVIP chopper deal
- Wanchoo: Herald’s Camurlim report moved me to shame
- Two dogs tested positive for rabies in Carmona
- Avertano: ESI hospital in pipeline for N Goa
- Dubious massage parlours thrive despite crackdown
- Minister calls for public cooperation to tackle garbage
- State govt not in sync with new Land Acquisition Act
- NGT directs mining cos to submit management plans
- Toxic day for 10 students in Vasco
- Shut schools can be utilised for textile training: Mahadev
- Cong comes out in support of Wanchoo
- 3 more police stations for Salcete mooted
- Davorlim demands better policing
- Gov Wanchoo quits after seeing off CBI ‘guests’
- With blood on my face, I went to the Calangute PS. They did nothing
- Sleep for 7 hours to be fit when you’re older
- Selaulim water treatment plant uses 90s technology
- Call for relaxing liquor sale timing
- 70-yr-old gagged, robbed in broad daylight at Nuvem
- Sanguem PWD staff unpaid for 8 months
- Centre, state plot way to get round SC orders
- Govt has power, but is powerless on quality
- CM wants existing uniform export duty regime replaced
- Centre asks CM to get feedback
- ‘Home’ is hub for amcho Tony
- After poll debacle, Cong to revamp committees
- State receives rainfall after long dry spell
- Sudin, Muthalik are testing the patience of Goans: Caitu
- Naik of Dahej Minerals deposes before SIT
- Govt to act tough against hooliganism at Chorla Ghat
- CM: Sporty boys told to reimburse
- MoEF directs Goa govt to review Kasturingan report
- MoI policy modified
- BJP distances itself from remarks
- Stop this farce, Sudin Dhavlikar. Leave Goa alone
- No ban on pubs, bikinis: CM
- Be damned if there is no rainfall in Goa in the next 48 hrs
- Tejpal gets bail with warnings
- The boys have flown, but Lobo stays grounded
- National TV, distorts Parrikar’s ‘rape & investment’ anecdote
- Sudin Dhavalikar is against pubs, women drinking, wearing bikinis and foreign tourists
- CJI slams Centre over Gopal row
- Every place is a bus stop in Panjim
- Repair Valpoi JNV: Council
- Repair Valpoi JNV: Council
- Frightened to travel on Zuari bridge: Rane
- GSPCB notice to Hyatt over water pollution
- Victim being pressurised to retract statement
- Petrol price dearer by Rs 1.69/litre
- 6 Goa MLAs take off for Brazil today, but who’s paying?
- Does Dahej Minerals have office in Cong House?: Rane
- Goan voices continue against Muthalik
- Did the police allow evidence to lapse?
- The Goa Cong president can’t get away by defending illegalities
- Prisons Dept plans training for cops on fool-proof jail security
- Goans not entitled for IIT seat reservation: CM
- Bail granted in Cabo de Rama case
- Protect our occupation, demand Velim’s traditional fishermen
- Ranes paid Rs 6 cr to clear my mining lease: Balchandra Naik
- Camurlim is Goa’s most shameful horror story
- Shame on us: Woman stripped, private parts stuffed with chilli powder and brutally beaten
- Digvijay talks tough on Party indiscipline
- We sell Goa throughout the year
Monsoon Session
Will eat in a common plate with HIV+ child: Parrikar
PANJIM: “I will eat in a common plate with an HIV positive child, to prove my faith that the disease is not transmissible,” Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on the floor of the House Wednesday, while appealing to people to have ‘trust and faith’. .. More
Goa
Trawler sinks at Vasco jetty
Just 48 hours left for the fishing season to resume; salvage operation required immediately so as to allow other trawlers to venture out .. More
Sports
Saraswat clinch TT title
TT State champs: Saraswat Vidyalaya HS, Mapusa, winners of U-17 girl’s table-tennis team championship. (Standing from left): Veda Kerkar, Prutha Parrikar, Urmila Mense, Niharika Walawalkar and Sweta Dhawaskar. PE teachers, Jayendra Nagvekar and Vinod Bilgoji and HM Sanjiv Dharwadkar at Mapusa, recently. .. More
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Editorial
Goa is ‘Special’, its politicians are not
It took one “reply” from the Rajya Sabha to deal a telling blow- and hopefully not a final one - to Goa’s aspirations of seeking a unique place for itself, for nothing else but to preserve its identity, culture and language, within the parameters of the Indian union. Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik was told that the demand is not ‘justifiable’
