Auction illegal mines: Goa Congress
September 18th, 2012 - 4:23 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 18 (IANS) All illegal mining sites in Goa should be divided into blocks and auctioned to the highest bidder, Congress leader and former union minister of state for ... Read more...
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Mining dumps in Goa the next Congress-BJP battleground? (With Image)
September 5th, 2012 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 5 (IANS) Till recently it was considered mining waste - all 700 million tonnes of it. With technology now available to extract low grade ore from the ... Read more...
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Goa Congress leaders to explain poll defeat to Antony
April 10th, 2012 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 10 (IANS) Top Congress leaders from Goa will be summoned to New Delhi to meet the high command later this week for a post-mortem of the party's ... Read more...
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Goa ex-minister blames mining scam for loss
March 14th, 2012 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 14 (IANS) A powerful ex-minister in the previous Congress government in Goa Wednesday blamed ex-Chief Minister Digambar Kamat's inability to control illegal mining as the reason behind the ... Read more...
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Goa ex-minister blames mining scam for loss
March 14th, 2012 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 14 (IANS) A powerful ex-minister in the previous Congress government in Goa Wednesday blamed ex-Chief Minister Digambar Kamat's inability to control illegal mining as the reason behind the ... Read more...
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Family raj, Catholic swing caused Goa loss: Congress
March 13th, 2012 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 13 (IANS) The Goa Congress Monday admitted that faulty distribution of tickets favouring the family members of legislators and a swing in the Catholic vote had contributed to ... Read more...
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PM, Sonia fail to garner votes for Goa Congress
March 7th, 2012 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 7 (IANS) Assembly constituencies in Goa where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Congress president Sonia Gandhi campaigned have resulted in dismal returns for the Congress.Sonia Gandhi's rally at ... Read more...
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Congress Waterloo in Goa due to family raj: Congress
March 6th, 2012 - 3:42 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 6 (IANS) Even before the final results are yet to be announced, Goa Congress spokesperson Ramakant Khalap has termed the party's poor showing as the Waterloo of ... Read more...
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Goa Congress legislator blames ‘family raj’ for losses
March 6th, 2012 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 6 (IANS) The first signs of bickering were showing in the Goa Congress with the party's decision to allot 33 percent of seats to the kin of sitting ... Read more...
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Saddened by trends, Goa Congress legislator to ‘take a nap’
March 6th, 2012 - 11:43 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 6 (IANS) Disappointed with the result of the first round of counting of votes cast in the assembly elections in Goa, a Congress contestant said Tuesday that ... Read more...
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Congress claim whittles, BJP coy over seats
March 2nd, 2012 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 2 (IANS) After consistently claiming that the Congress-NCP alliance would win 25 seats in the Goa assembly, Congress leader Francisco Sardinha has scaled down the assessment to ... Read more...
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NCP: Goa Congress cozying up to real estate lobby
February 23rd, 2012 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 23 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Thursday accused its ruling alliance partner, the Congress, of selling out to the real estate lobby while preparing a futuristic land-use ... Read more...
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Denied ticket, Goa Congress legislator slams Sonia
February 11th, 2012 - 10:09 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 11 (IANS) Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's double-speak on 33 percent reservation for women has been exposed, party leader and Goa's only woman legislator Victoria Fernandes said Saturday, ... Read more...
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Congress leader’s email hacked
February 3rd, 2012 - 11:01 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 3 (IANS) Unknown persons have hacked into the email account of a Goa Congress leader Vijay Sardesai, who is seeking to contest the hotly contested assembly seat of ... Read more...
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Goa Congress likens illegal mining to ‘murder on the street’
January 23rd, 2012 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 23 (IANS) The Congress in Goa Monday compared the mega illegal mining scam to "a murder on the street", but claimed the Congress-led coalition government was not directly ... Read more...
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Goa Congress denies illegal mining charges
January 17th, 2012 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 17 (IANS) The ruling Congress in Goa Tuesday shrugged off allegations of proximity to the multi-crore illegal mining lobby, even as it welcomed a politician arrested a ... Read more...
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Goa Congress candidate being probed for model code violation
January 9th, 2012 - 11:49 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 9 (IANS) Congress candidate Dayanand Narvekar, a former vice president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is being probed for violating the code of ... Read more...
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Goa Congress-NCP poll alliance to be unveiled this week
January 9th, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 9 (IANS) The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are likely to announce their alliance for the upcoming Goa assembly polls by the end of this ... Read more...
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Goa’s ‘Tuberculosis’ Cunha fought colonial Portuguese cancer
December 18th, 2011 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
(ATTN NEWS EDITORS: This is the third and last in a series on the 50th anniversary of Goa's liberation Dec 19, 2011. This story is about the man who mentored the ... Read more...
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Rahul invitation a casual remark: Goa Congress chief
November 3rd, 2011 - 10:56 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Nov 3 (IANS) Inviting Rahul Gandhi to deliver a midnight address in the state assembly on the 50th anniversary of Goa's liberation from the Portuguese rule was just ... Read more...
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Kamat to present facts on mining scam to Goa Congress
October 14th, 2011 - 9:16 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 14 (IANS) The heat generated by Goa illegal mining scandal has Congress leaders at middle and lower rungs flushed and agitated.Members of the newly re-constituted Pradesh Congress Committee ... Read more...
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Will Congress do a Yeddyurappa with Goa’s Kamat? (Letter from Goa)
September 21st, 2011 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 21 (IANS) Like B.S. Yeddyurappa in Karnataka, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is now facing criticism from within his own party, the Congress, for illegal mining in ... Read more...
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No jobs offered to ex-BJP legislator, says Goa Congress
September 13th, 2011 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 13 (IANS) A top Goa Congress leader Tuesday denied claims that a legislator had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after being offered 100 jobs for ... Read more...
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Goa government supporting killers of tribal activists: Congress
May 28th, 2011 - 12:01 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 27 (IANS) Senior Goa Congress leaders Friday attacked the party leadership and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, claiming both were "insensitive to tribal issues" and were dragging their ... Read more...
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Indian states and their ruling parties
May 13th, 2011 - 9:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) With the results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam and the union territory of Puducherry Friday throwing up new ... Read more...
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Delhi meeting to discuss Goa’s linguistic deadlock
May 12th, 2011 - 1:07 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 11 (IANS) Union Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal will chair a meeting next week to resolve the vexed medium of instruction (MoI) issue in Goa, a ... Read more...
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Guess who’s praising Modi? Goa Congress leader!
April 27th, 2011 - 3:54 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 27 (IANS) Congress leaders always cry foul over Narendra Modi, but the Gujarat chief minister has found high praise from a senior party official in Goa -- ... Read more...
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Congress leader’s poem on sex worker irks women activists
April 16th, 2011 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 16 (IANS) A poem about a sex worker written by Goa Congress vice president and award-winning writer N. Shivdas has sparked outrage among women's groups here.Several women's groups, ... Read more...
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Goa Congress chief’s brother accused of Holi assault
March 23rd, 2011 - 7:41 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 23 (IANS) A 50-year-old woman and her son Wednesday accused the brother of Congress' Goa unit president Subhash Shirodkar of assaulting them after they resisted colours being smeared ... Read more...
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Is Parrikar going soft on ruling Goa Congress? (News Analysis)
February 24th, 2011 - 11:33 am ICT by IANS
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, Feb 24 (IANS) Goa Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manohar Parrikar seems to share the predicament of party stalwart L.K. Advani when it comes to stopping short of ... Read more...
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Congress ducks queries on Goa drug nexus
January 21st, 2011 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 21 (IANS) A senior Congress official Friday said the drug issue existed in several states and was not confined only to Goa. Congress general secretary in-charge of Goa B.K. Hariprasad ... Read more...
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Goa Congress admits to crisis over Pacheco, can drop NCP (Lead)
December 23rd, 2010 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 23 (IANS) Admitting to a crisis in the Congress-led government over tainted Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Mickky Pacheco's induction in the Goa cabinet, state party chief Subhash Shirodkar Thursday ... Read more...
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Chavan had to go, how can Pacheco come, ask Goa Congress dissidents
December 23rd, 2010 - 12:22 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Dec 23 (IANS) A group of dissident Congress legislators has asked party president Sonia Gandhi to apply the same principles while inducting ministers in Goa as was done in Maharashtra ... Read more...
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Another tainted Goa politician joins Congress
June 24th, 2010 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, June 24 (IANS) Within days of admitting into the party a legislator with three criminal charge-sheets against him, Congress's Goa unit Thursday rolled out the red carpet to Vishwajeet Rane, yet ... Read more...
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Tainted Goa legislator joins Congress (Lead)
June 21st, 2010 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, June 21 (IANS) The Goa Congress Monday admitted into its fold Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate, accused of beating up Youth Congress workers staging a rally here in support of an ... Read more...
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