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Polling personnel check condition of EVMs in Panaji on Tuesday. State assembly elections will be held on February 4
View ArticleHabitual offender to be externed
PANAJI : The Panaji police have initiated externment proceedings against one more alleged habitual offender Malik Kadroli from Taleigao. The police said that Kadroli (24) is involved in a number of...
View ArticleCongress promises new hope to youth
The Congress assures that if the party comes to power then its government will bring in necessary amendments to laws to ensure 100 per cent employment to the Goan youth. Goa pradesh Congress...
View ArticleCongress proposes grand alliance with UGP, GFP, NCP
PANAJI : The Congress has offered two seats each to the United Goans Party, the Goa Forward Party and the Nationalist Congress Party to form the grand alliance to contest the assembly elections...
View ArticleGFP aims at BJP’s rout
Goa Forward Party president Prabhakar Timble tells Roque Dias that the top priority of the party in this election is to vote out the BJP Q: The Goa Forward Party has been keen on forging an alliance...
View ArticleNote ban robs voters of freebies
SHOMA PATNAIK | NT Principal Correspondent PANAJI The demonetisation of high-value currency notes has severely dampened distribution of freebies and gifts to voters in the state, which will go to polls...
View ArticleUncertainty over Sukerkar’s candidature for Panaji
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Panaji candidate of the Goa Suraksha Manch for the forthcoming state assembly election, Krishnaraj ‘Raju’ Sukerkar has been admitted to the Lilavati Hospital following health...
View ArticleCong efforts for alliance likely to fructify today
NT NETWORK PANAJI Congress’ offer of forging a grand alliance with the United Goans Party, the Goa Forward Party and the Nationalist Congress Party did not reach a consensus on seat-sharing on...
View ArticleBJP may announce candidates today
NT NETWORK PANAJI The Bharatiya Janata Party deferred the announcement of its candidates for the February 4 assembly elections in Goa to January 12. The lists of candidates for Goa and Punjab were...
View ArticleThis PM gets emotional on returning to his roots
NT NETWORK PANAJI Getting sentimental over revisit to his Goan roots, Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa on Wednesday appealed to the state government to take benefit of the expertise of his...
View ArticleUnemployed citizens are more likely to vote this time, perhaps for a change
Abdul Wahab Khan | NT PANAJI With the assembly election less than a month away, it is quite apparent that growing unemployment rate in the state is one of the prime issues with young voters also having...
View ArticleGSM to stop grants to English medium schools from 2017-18 if voted to power
NT NETWORK PANAJI Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM), in its election manifesto amongst others, has promised to discontinue grants to English-medium primary schools from academic year 2017-18 if voted to power....
View Article‘If there were sufficient jobs, Goans wouldn’t have gone to Portugal or on...
Shaikh Jamaluddin | NT PANAJI The migration of youth from the state to other states as well as abroad for greener pastures is continuing with lack of jobs being the prime reason. Year after year, the...
View ArticleNote ban robs voters of freebies
SHOMA PATNAIK | NT The demonetisation of high-value currency notes has severely dampened distribution of freebies and gifts to voters in the state, which will go to polls on February 4. Dealers in the...
View ArticleGoan youth fall prey to drug peddling
PANAJI: Almost 50 per cent of the alleged drug peddlers arrested for the last three years by the anti-narcotic cell of the Goa police are youth and most of them are Goans. Since 2014, the ANC has...
View ArticleRaut may fight elections from Bicholim seat
PANAJI: The Goa Praja Party has decided to stay away from the Goa Suraksha Manch-Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party-Shiv Sena grand alliance after GPP chief Pandurang Raut was replaced by Naresh Sawal – a...
View ArticleDisquiet in BJP over ticket
PANAJI/VASCO/CANACONA: Supporters of the Speaker of the legislative assembly Anant Shet as well as Minister for Agriculture Ramesh Tawadkar have warned the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders that Shet and...
View ArticleGFP not to be part of Cong-led alliance
PANAJI: The Goa Forward Party has decided to contest the 2017 assembly elections on its own strength and declined the Congress offer for forging an alliance. GFP president Prabhakar Timble told this...
View ArticleCong gives tickets to 4 ex-CMs
PANAJI : The Congress party on Thursday announced its first list of 27 candidates for the state assembly elections scheduled for February 4. All-India Congress committee general secretary Madhusudhan...
View ArticleBJP renominates Parsekar, Francis, Arlekar
PANAJI : Refraining from declaration of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial candidate for the forthcoming state assembly election, Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Thursday released the...
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