PANAJI: A routine press conference called to pledge support to a Santa Cruz candidate took an ugly turn when Kassim Mulla, the former president of Sunni Noorani Masjid, Indira Nagar, allegedly assaulted a Masjid committee member, Mr Maula Ali Shaikh.
PANAJI: The joint Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Mr Narayan Navati on Friday said that Save Goa Front (SGF) was still recognised as a state level political party and that it could set up candidates for the March 3 general elections to the state assembly and use symbol allotted to it.
PANAJI: The Speaker of the Goa State Legislative Assembly on Friday rejected the disqualification petitions filed by former Benaulim legislator, Mr Francisco Xavier Pacheco, against Mr Churchill Alemao (Navelim MLA) and Mr Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco (Curtorim MLA) and held their merger in the Congress party as valid as they comprised two thirds of the total strength of the Save Goa Front (SGF) party.
PANAJI: Following instructions by the Election Commission of India, the Goa police have affected changes in postings of all nine Deputy Superintendents of Police and 18 police inspectors.
Mr Chandrakant B Shetkar, mamlatdar of Bicholim and assistant returning officer 3-Bicholim has been posted him as joint mamlatdar-I of Sanguem, while Mr Ravishekhar Nipanikar, joint mamlatdar-II, Bicholim and ARO-17 Sanquelim has been posted as mamlatdar, Bicholim and ARO-3-Bicholim.
PONDA: The sitting MLA from Priol, Mr Pandurang Dhavalikar will do well not to take his political rivals lightly as the battle for Priol is expected to be much tighter than it appears to be and could tilt on either side as 12,300 odd scheduled tribes voters hold the key.
PANAJI: The Goa Bachao Andolan has made a demand that the Chief Electoral Officer issue directions to the Town and Country Planning department not to issue NOCs for construction of large projects.
PANAJI: Stating that the vice-president of the Goa unit of National Students Union of India, Mr Sunil Kawthankar has joined hands with the chief of the Goa Vikas Party, Mr Francis Xavier (Mickey) Pacheco,
MAPUSA: The seat-sharing agreement between Congress and NCP does not seem to be a smooth ride with the coalition hitting a roadblock at Cortalim in the South and in the North it is Mapusa.
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