Goa to ban smoking on its beaches next season
July 14th, 2012 - 4:03 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 14 (IANS) In a bid to make Goa's coastline tobacco free, the tourism department is mulling a ban on its use on beaches from Octtober, an official said ... Read more...
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Designerwear show affecting local business in Goa?
December 10th, 2011 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Bambolim (Goa), Dec 10 (IANS) Goa's picturesque beaches and churches apart, tourists also throng the state for local shopping. But the first edition of the India Resort Fashion Week (IRFW) ... Read more...
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Scarlett Keeling murder retold on ‘Anjuna Beach’
July 2nd, 2011 - 2:02 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 2 (IANS) The seamier side of Goa will unravel on the silver screen with "Anjuna Beach", a Bollywood film set on the 2008 murder and sexual assault ... Read more...
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Scarlett case dragging, CBI prosecutor wants to withdraw
February 3rd, 2011 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 3 (IANS) In a new twist to British teenager Scarlett Keeling's sexual assault and culpable homicide case, a prosecutor appearing for the CBI Thursday said he wanted to withdraw from ... Read more...
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Fiona deposes in Goa court; says police suppressed facts
July 30th, 2010 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 30 (IANS) In her first deposition to a local trial court, Fiona Mackeown Friday accused the police of suppressing facts and failing to collect crucial evidence in connection with the ... Read more...
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‘Scarlett threatened by local few weeks before death’
July 28th, 2010 - 12:16 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 28 (IANS) In a new twist to Scarlett Keeling's brutal death, her boyfriend told a Goa court that she and her family were threatened by a local named Shanti a ... Read more...
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Pratik dating Russian DJ
April 27th, 2010 - 5:17 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
April 27, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): After being linked to a number of actresses in the past, Pratik Babbar seems to have found someone for sure this time. If sources are to ... Read more...
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Goa rape-murder victim Scarlett Keeling’s stepfather found dead in UK
April 17th, 2010 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 17(ANI): Murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling's stepfather has been found dead at his flat in Torquay, Devon, a year after admitting he would "drink himself to death".Adam Foster, father of ... Read more...
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Fiona likely to depose in court in Scarlett trial: Lawyer
April 14th, 2010 - 1:42 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 13 (IANS) Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling is likely to be in Goa to attend her daughter's murder trial, her counsel said Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters late ... Read more...
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Scarlett’s body bore scars and abrasions, recalls cop
April 9th, 2010 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 9 (IANS) The body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling bore scars on her face, abrasions on her knees and ornamental piercing in several parts of her body, a woman police ... Read more...
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Delay in taking cop’s statement in Scarlet case questioned
April 7th, 2010 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 7 (IANS) In the British teenager Scarlett Keeling's case, Goa Police took nearly one month to record statements of policemen who were the first to reach Anjuna beach where her ... Read more...
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Keeling lawyer says Goa police, drug lords in cahoots
April 5th, 2010 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr.5 (ANI): A lawyer representing the mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was raped and killed in early part of 2008 on Goa's Anjuna Beach, has claimed that drug ... Read more...
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Administration flip-flops on raiding Goa nightclub
March 31st, 2010 - 12:37 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 30 (IANS) In a sudden flip flop, the district administration first asked the police not to raid a notorious night club and within a couple of hours withdrew that order ... Read more...
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Murdered Brit teen Scarlett Keeling’s mum admits to benefit fraud
March 20th, 2010 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar. 20 (ANI): The mother of murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling has admitted to falsely claiming 19,000 pounds in benefits.According to The Times, 44-year-old Fiona MacKeown claimed the income support ... Read more...
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Goa court acquits Scarlett’s boyfriend
November 25th, 2009 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Nov 25 (IANS) The Goa Children's court (GCC) Wednesday acquitted Julio Lobo, who was said to be the boyfriend of slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling. Julio had been charged under the ... Read more...
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CBI paves way for trial of two for Scarlett murder
October 21st, 2009 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 21 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an additional charge sheet in the case of murder of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling, at Anjuna beach in Goa in February ... Read more...
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CBI gets 10 days to file report on Keeling murder
October 15th, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 15 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has 10 days to file a supplementary report before the Goa Children's Court (GCC) in connection with British teen Scarlett Keeling's murder, ... Read more...
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Goa police probe into son’s death sluggish, says Russian
October 12th, 2009 - 12:08 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 12 (IANS) Sluggish investigations and inordinate delays by the Goa police has left Dmitry Prosnyakov, father of a 21-year-old Russian youth who was allegedly murdered in Goa along with his ... Read more...
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Goa minister blames foreigners for giving state a bad name
May 28th, 2009 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 28 (IANS) Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik Thursday said foreign tourists, with their habit of partying and getting drunk till late hours and filing false theft complaints to claim insurance ... Read more...
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Scot caught with hashish
May 24th, 2009 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 24 (IANS) A Scottish national has been arrested here for possessing 2.5 kg of hashish, police said Sunday.
James Joseph Toner, 44, was arrested by the anti-narcotics police from Chapora, a ... Read more...
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Scarlett murder investigator’s dismissal revoked
April 1st, 2009 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 1 (IANS) The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court Wednesday struck down the dismissal of the investigating police officer who was accused of sabotaging probe into the murder of ... Read more...
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Three foreigners held for assaulting cops in Goa
March 23rd, 2009 - 5:36 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 23 (IANS) Three foreigners have been arrested for assaulting policemen trying to stop a rave party in a North Goa beach, the police said Monday.
The incident occurred at around 5.00 ... Read more...
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Scarlett murder: Police want to record mother’s statement in Britain
March 2nd, 2009 - 4:46 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 2 (IANS) The police here want to send a team to Britain to record the statement of Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling killed under mysterious circumstances here ... Read more...
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CBI team may visit Britain to quiz Scarlett’s mother (Lead)
February 18th, 2009 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Panaji, Feb 18 (IANS) A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team may visit Britain this month to quiz Fiona MacKeown, the mother of dead teenager Scarlett Keeling who was found dead ... Read more...
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A year on, justice continues to elude Scarlett Keeling
February 18th, 2009 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 18 (IANS) A year after British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found dead at Goa's Anjuna beach, neither the police nor the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have made any significant ... Read more...
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Scarletts Email claims attempted gang rape before murder
February 9th, 2009 - 6:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb. 9 (ANI): In an Email to her Spanish friend just days before her death on a beach in Goa, British teenager Scarlett Keeling wrote that a group of men ... Read more...
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Goa forensic labs destroyed Scarlett’s organs: lawyer
January 28th, 2009 - 12:10 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 27 (IANS) A major part of slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling's organs required for a third autopsy in Britain is missing, her mother Fiona Fiona MacKeown's counsel said here Tuesday.MacKeown ... Read more...
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Scarlett Keelings mom says Goa police destroyed her daughters internal organs
January 27th, 2009 - 12:55 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan.27 (ANI): The mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was murdered on a beach in Goa last February, has charged the police of that state with destroying ... Read more...
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Dutch woman complains of rape, Goa police tight-lipped
January 5th, 2009 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 4 (IANS) A 24-year-old Dutch woman has complained to the Goa police that she was drugged, robbed and raped by a group of Nigerians on the New Year's eve near ... Read more...
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Scarlett Keeling’s lover cleared of sexual assault charges
November 11th, 2008 - 1:08 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Nov 11 (IANS) The Goa Children's Court has dropped the sexual assault charges against murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling'a lover Julio Lobo, but ordered that he be booked for staying with ... Read more...
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Hearing against Scarlett’s mother postponed to Nov 5
October 29th, 2008 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 29 (IANS) Goa's Women and Child Development (WCD) department Wednesday postponed to Nov 5 the hearing of the case against British mother Fiona Mackeown, who faces charges of neglect against ... Read more...
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Goa government summons murdered Scarlette Keeling’s mother
September 7th, 2008 - 7:40 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 7 (IANS) The Goa government has opened a fresh broadside against the mother of Scarlette Keeling, the British teenager who was found dead on a beach here in February. Even ... Read more...
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CBI registers case regarding Scarlette Keeling’s death
June 6th, 2008 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case related to the death of British teenager Scarlette Keeling, whose body was found on Goa's Anjuna Beach ... Read more...
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‘Rave Party’ not just about Scarlett Keeling: director
May 8th, 2008 - 9:02 am ICT by admin
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Mumbai, May 8 (IANS) Director Prabhakar Shukla, who is attracting media attention with plans to make a film on British teenager Scarlett Keeling who was raped and murdered in Goa, says ... Read more...
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Goa hands over Scarlette murder case to CBI
May 7th, 2008 - 11:46 pm ICT by admin
Panaji, May 7 (IANS) Nearly three months after British teenager Scarlette Keeling was found dead on Goa's Anjuna Beach, the state government Wednesday formally handed over the case to the Central Bureau ... Read more...
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