Goa s offshore casinos to stay put for six months
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Wed, Feb 17 2021 20:21 IST |
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Pramod Sawant.. Image Source: IANS News
Panaji, Feb 17 : With no concrete decision on the identification of a new site for the six offshore casinos parked on the Mandovi river off Panaji, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that the glitzy vessels will continue to be anchored in the river for six months.
Sawant is the state s fourth successive Chief Minister after late Manohar Parrikar and Laxmikant Parsekar (both led BJP-led coalition governments) and former Congress CM Digambar Kamat who have been unable to take a formal decision on the relocation of the six offshore casinos to other parts of the state.
Carnival over Covid: Panaji to host annual float parade amid pandemic
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Thu, Feb 4 2021 18:42 IST |
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Goa may tone down Carnival festivities amid Covid-19. Image Source: IANS News
Panaji, Feb 4 : The spirit of Carnival appears to have trumped the fear of the Covid-19 pandemic in Goa, with civic authorities in Panaji finally permitting the colourful festival which is due to begin on February 13.
According to the mayor of the Corporation of the City of Panaji Uday Madkaikar, private and corporate funding for the popular event is expected to dip this year, but the event would nonetheless be held as scheduled.
Political fissures appear to have developed in the Goa cabinet over the construction of a much-delayed IIT-Goa campus in North Goa s Valpoi assembly constituency, even as tremors of an old rivalry between Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health .
Agitations spring up in Goa, amid shrinking land resources
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Fri, Jan 8 2021 20:03 IST |
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IIT-Goa campus violence: Police file FIRs against protesters. Image Source: IANS News
Panaji, Jan 8 : Goa, geographically India s smallest state, has been witnessing a series of protests over land intensive projects over the last few months.
While the ruling BJP has blamed the anti-development agitations on the upcoming state assembly polls scheduled in early 2022, a fast disappearing critical resource, land, is emerging as the key factor for popular unrest against mega-projects .
The most sustained protests of 2020, which have spilled into the near year, are linked to three central government-backed projects linked to double tracking of the South Western railway line, the expansion of the National Highway 4A and an interstate power project. All the projects are earmarked in protected areas, especially in and around Mollem village, which
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