Новости за 21.12.2015

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to appoint senior advocate Gopal Subramanium to head a panel to probe alleged irregularities in DDCA is hardly surprising as the jurist has been one of AAP government’s preferred legal advisers.

In the middle of an ugly spat between the state government and the Centre, the former has convened a special assembly session on Tuesday to discuss the CBI raid on the Delhi Secretariat and the setting up of an inquiry commission to probe charges of corruption in Delhi and District Cricket Association.

Two days after the Patiala House court witnessed a massive gathering of top Congress politicians and their supporters, it’s the members of the ruling BJP who turned up in large numbers at the same venue on Monday.

Bicholim police has arrested Devidas Sinari and Dattaguru for allegedly being involved in the abduction of Bhagirath Karo, 25, of Tivrem, Marcel, who is a native of Rajasthan.

N Goa Collector Asks Tiswadi Mamlatdar To Start Process; Elections Slated For March 13

The justice juvenile board (JJB) on Monday rejected the crime branch application to conduct a lie detector test on a minor boy who was with social activist Bismarque Dias on the day he went missing.

pending project to beautify the Bandolem lake at Sancoale village is going to be a reality soon as Goa state industrial development corporation (GSIDC) has appointed Ankit Prabhudessai as consultant for the project. The consultant discussed the project with Alina Saldanha, MLA of Cortalim, in the presence of Shripad Valaulicar from GSIDC, Domnic Fernandes from department of science & technology, Gauresh Kouthankar from Goa energy development agency (GEDA) and others.

Merging parts of outlying villages in Mapusa is expected to facilitate more organized planning in the town, but concerns are being raised in some quarters about the threat to ecology and integrity of adjoining panchayat bodies.

The political brawl between finance minister Arun Jaitley and AAP moved to the courts on Monday with the minister going to the Patiala House courts to personally file a Rs 10-crore defamation case against CM Arvind Kejriwal and five other senior AAP members - the first time a Union minister has done so against a CM.

The political brawl between finance minister Arun Jaitley and AAP moved to the courts on Monday with the minister going to the Patiala House courts to personally file a Rs 10-crore defamation case against CM Arvind Kejriwal and five other senior AAP members - the first time a Union minister has done so against a CM.

Bicholim MLA (independent) Naresh Sawal on Monday submitted a notice to the legislature secretariat to introduce a bill seeking to amend the Goa, Daman and Diu official language act, for giving Marathi equal status with Konkani.

Tourism stakeholders, who recently formed an association comprising associations of shack operators, tourist taxi operators, private shack operators, and other trades, have objected to tourism minister Dilip Parulekar’s statement made last week that all hotels are full in December, and there are no rooms available for booking.

Recent protests over the clearance accorded by the investment promotion board (IPB) to the five-star luxury resort on the fragile island of Vanxim have once again put the board in the spotlight. Keen to ensure that cleared projects hit the ground running, the state government is working on a slew of new initiatives to try and improve the IPB’s success rate.

The entire exercise of reopening the Regional Plan 2021 lacks transparency as government has not elucidated its objective nor put in place guidelines, former president of Indian Institute of Architects, (IIA), Goa chapter, Tulio de Souza said.

Leaders of the Dhangar-Gouly community assembled at Bhuipal in Sattari on Sunday demanded tribal status under Article 342 of the Constitution for their social and economic upliftment.

Amid raging protests against the release of the juvenile offender in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to put him back in the reform home, saying there was no law to keep him confined any longer as he had already undergone the maximum term of three years on being found involved in the gruesome crime.

Bringing to surface the simmering resentment in its ranks, Congress on Monday told the Speaker that her treatment of the lead opposition was not fair and the Lok Sabha could not continue like it has in the last 18 months.

The National Waterways Bill 2015, aimed at developing 101 cost effective and eco-friendly inland waterways in the country to ease the burden of roads and railways, was passed in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Though the opposition stalled proceedings in Rajya Sabha on Monday morning demanding finance minister Arun Jaitley’s resignation over the DDCA controversy, the juvenile justice bill found its way onto the agenda after Trinamool leader Derek O’Brien called for suspension of zero hour and pleaded with members to pay heed to protests over Nirbhaya case.

Commuters are shying away from using TMT-run buses over lack of maintenance

Two houses at Lokmanya Nagar Pada No. 3 were up in flames on Monday evening after an LPG cylinder blasted

The city police arrested two people for allegedly possessing pelts of barking deer from Dombivali

A 52-year-old man died after he tried to intervene in a fight that broke out between his 12-year-old son and his classmate over a game of cricket at Shil Phata on Saturday