Netizens have field day over pre-poll counselling in Goa
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Nilesh Cabral.. Image Source: IANS News
Panaji, June 1 : The Goa government s resolve to make counselling of couples mandatory before marriage has triggered comic spin-offs on social media, with netizens wondering whether such counselling should also be made mandatory for legislators in the coastal state, who have a reputation for party hopping.
On Monday, Goa Law Minister Nilesh Cabral had said that his ministry was tinkering with a policy to make pre-marriage counselling mandatory to stem the rising tide of quick divorces in the state, even as he was unable to provide statistics related to registration of divorces in the state. According to Cabral a government agency was formulating a counselling module and that religious institutes could also be roped in to provide pre-marriage counselling sessions.
Goa: Trouble in paradise, as Covid wreaks havoc
Joydeep Sen Gupta/New Delhi Filed on May 15, 2021
Paramilitary soldiers patrol along a street during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against coronavirus in Goa. Photo: AFP
The raging Covid-19 pandemic stokes debate about Goans vs outsiders.
Why is Goa, the picture postcard and the tiniest coastal Indian state, in the headlines for all the wrong reasons? Trouble in paradise?
The state, whose population is less than 60 per cent of Dubai at around two million (m), is in the throes of an unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.
Goans said the second and the more lethal wave of the contagion started around Easter in early April.