Step in Right Direction Even though life-imprisonment literally means spending the rest of one’s life in prison, in practice, however, life-imprisonment means incarceration for 14 years when lifer becomes entitled to remission of the rest of the sentence.
Every year at the commencement of the admission season to educational institutions, teachers and administrators associated with the so-termed ‘recognised’ educational institutions and public funded universities spit venom on the training and educational input providers who in their wisdom are ‘unrecognised.’
The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar was guarded when he threw up the idea of increasing the number of MBBS seats to 250. He suggested two ways of doing this – by either increasing the number of seats in the Goa Medical College (GMC) or starting a new college attached to the Margao district hospital.
The death of a senior Karnataka government official, who blew the lid off several scams in state housing co-operative societies, five days after he was brutally attacked by goons in Bangalore is another reminder of the dangers of being the ‘good guy’.
When the West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee lost her cool and stormed out of an interactive CNN-IBN TV session when a student asked her about the arrest of a professor for forwarding her cartoon,
AGRICULTURE is a full time, serious activity. Agriculture does not mean just paddy cultivation. More than 300 crops have been historically cultivated in Goa, 70 crops are popular and yields of paddy are comfortable where farmers still take serious interest.
The new chairman of the Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC), Mr Carlos Almeida is enthusiastic about pulling this loss making enterprise out of the red within two years. He thinks it is possible.
The Indian Premier League is known for its hard hitting batsmen, swing bowlers and edge-of-the-seat finishes. But the last week saw a different kind of drama.
