Friday, February 17, 2012

Won't need MGP support: Sardinha

Won't need MGP support: Sardinha


Won't need MGP support: Sardinha

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:03 PM PST

Alemao on Thursday accused Faleiro for holding a meeting urging people to defeat him and Valanka Alemao, Congress candidate from Benaulim.


Alemao defends British friend

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:01 PM PST

"Vaz is a person of Indian origin (PIO) status.He is free to campaign for anybody," Alemao told TOI when contacted, adding that Vaz was his family friend.


Alemao defends British friend

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:01 PM PST

"Vaz is a person of Indian origin (PIO) status.He is free to campaign for anybody," Alemao told TOI when contacted, adding that Vaz was his family friend.


BJP sure Mahatme will defeat CM

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:59 PM PST

Earlier, the party's legislature wing spokesperson Damodar 'Damu' Naik, urged people to end the "sade-sati that has gripped Goa in the nearly seven-and-half-year long Congress misrule" by voting BJP to power.


IAC submits memo to chiefs of political parties

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:49 PM PST

Among the other demands, IAC has said regular gram sabha meetings should take place on a fixed day at fixed time at a fixed place every month and be presided over by a person, other than sarpanch or deputy sarpanch.


Congress trying to get PM for campaign

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:46 PM PST

The Congress is trying to get Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary of AICC Rahul Gandhi to boost the prospects of their candidates in Goa.


Furtado denies meeting Luizinho

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:38 PM PST

Further targeting his bete-noire, Furtado demanded to know on what grounds was Alemao contesting from Navelim.


Savio Coutinho violated election code: Police probe

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:33 PM PST

Redkar said that one of Kamat's supporters named in the complaint has denied that he was present at the place at the time the incident took place.


United Porvorkar declares support to Parvatkar

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:30 PM PST

United Porvorkar, a group with members from the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Friday declared unconditional support to BJP's Porvorim candidate Govind Parvatkar.


Parrikar eyes South Goa Congress bastion

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:28 PM PST

Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar feels a "massive" anti-incumbency sentiment and voters' disenchantment with Congress' 'family raj' politics will propel the BJP to power in the March 3 polls.


Congress says no mining moratorium

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:22 PM PST

BJP's Wilfred Mesquita would not comment specifically on the Gadgil report. He told TOI "We are not against mining but if any mining is environmentally damaging, or against environmental interests, we are against it.


Fairer sex outnumbers male counterparts in polling

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:57 PM PST

The awareness level for the polling among the rural women of the district is greater than not only their urban counterparts but also the male voters.


Unequal victims from across the border

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:42 PM PST

The ordeal of Pakistani nationals whose kin were killed in the Samjhauta Express blasts is far from over even as the fifth anniversary of the twin blasts falls on February 18.


Another round of identification

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:41 PM PST

"During the course of investigation, it was revealed that Kamal had knowledge about the larger conspiracy and facts related to the case," said R K Handa, senior special public prosecutor, NIA.


No visa without bank balance

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:36 PM PST

Similarly, relatives of Sayed Iftikar Ali, Rajiya Sultana, Ijhar Hasan and Jarina Begam are also facing the similar situation as they were also denied visas for not having sufficient bank balance.


Mathai asked to salvage Teesta pact

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:10 PM PST

With the BJP taking a contrary stand to the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee nixing the Teesta agreement, the Manmohan Singh government's much- hyped Bangladesh initiative is in danger of falling flat on its face.


India for early polls in Maldives to restore normalcy

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:02 PM PST

India believes that a decision to hold early elections in the Maldives has had a calming effect on the protests in the island.


PCI chief to UP govt: Ensure freedom of press

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST

Concerned over complaints that newspapers and journalists in Uttar Pradesh were being harassed by banning of government advertisements or non-accreditation Press Council chief Markandey Katju asked the administration to lift the ban and submit a report on the action taken.


CBI chief stresses on global help to recover black money stashed abroad

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday stressed the need for cooperation with international law enforcement agencies to trace and recover illegal wealth stashed abroad.


Panel selects Sircar as new Prasar Bharati CEO

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:59 PM PST

Culture secretary Jawhar Sircar has been selected by a panel, headed by the vice-president Hamid Ansari, as the CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.


Panel selects Sircar as new Prasar Bharati CEO

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:59 PM PST

Culture secretary Jawhar Sircar has been selected by a panel, headed by the vice-president Hamid Ansari, as the CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.


Trafficking to be part of child sexual offence bill

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:57 PM PST

Concerned over the trafficking and sexual abuse of children seen in recent times in the Falak case, the government has introduced trafficking of minors for sexual abuse as an offence under its flagship legislation.

Trafficking to be part of child sexual offence bill

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:57 PM PST

Concerned over the trafficking and sexual abuse of children seen in recent times in the Falak case, the government has introduced trafficking of minors for sexual abuse as an offence under its flagship legislation.


Appointments trouble J&K CM Omar Abdullah

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:54 PM PST

J&K State Accountability Commission on Friday directed chief minister Omar Abdullah and eight others to appear before it with replies to a petition against appointment of politicians as heads of autonomous bodies and advisors with ministerial ranks on March 5.


Women want cell phones not toilets: Jairam

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:51 PM PST

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday expressed concern that the government's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is being seen as a "token sanitation campaign" and rued that women were demanding mobile phones but not toilets.


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