The total bandh witnessed in Goa on Monday July 5 was not voluntary by any means but was enforced by the leader of the opposition Manohar Parrikar who personally supervised the erection of barricades to prevent the movement of traffic.
EVER SINCE the installation of Digamber Kamat as the chief minister, the members of the ‘Group of Seven (G-7)’ schemed tirelessly to bring down his government at every opportunity to cause political instability in Goa. Three years later, two main ‘leaders’ of the group, Education Minister Babush Monserrate and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane have joined the Congress with a lot of fanfare.
ACCORDING TO a statement made by Investigating Officer Sunita Sawant, police inspector of the Crime Branch of the Goa Police, before the Additional Sessions Court in Margao in response to the anticipatory bail application filed by Mickky Pacheco, the former minister was in Nadia Torrado’s house on the night of May 14, 2010 - the day before Nadia consumed an entire tube of Ratol at around 9 am on May 15, 2010. Further, the police statement claims that Nadia’s husband Winston Barreto, had met her on May 14, 2010 while he was on duty and that “she was very much disturbed.”
A journalist - a woman - recently used fashion vocabulary to create a cultural type and imply a woman’s look reflected her character.
THE VERDICT in the Bhopal gas tragedy has caused considerable outrage. It seems to provide little recompense to the victims, and little assurance to the public at large that the legal system is up to protecting us from the risks that make us all vulnerable. Perhaps there will be learning from this case, but I doubt any Indian has anymore confidence that the legal system can protect us from catastrophic risk than we did twenty years ago.
WITH THE municipal polls barely five months away, a note recently put forward by the Additional Collector and former Margao Municipal Council (MMC) Chief Officer Prasanna Acharya to MMC chairperson Savio Coutinho created a major uproar amongst councillors afraid of losing their seats.
By Vaishali Naik
IF SOCIETY is grateful to the media for its services and acknowledges its importance in day-to-day life, it is also not hesitant to criticise it for its slowly changing priorities in dissemination of news. If the media has been critical of wrong doers in society, it itselfhas come under scanner as it has shifted its loyalties and changed the pattern of news coverage. Many speakers, while debating “Freedom of media and rights of the reader and viewer” expressed these sentiments even as they did not deny the pivotal role of the media at a debate organised by the Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ), in association with the Department of Information and Publicity and Kala Academy on World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on May 3.
CENSUS OFFICIALS in the largest democracy in the world are currently engaged in the mammoth exercise of collecting data on the country’s large populace. This is not your normal, run-off-the-mill head count. The census study is also part of a national ID card and social security number programme.
THE GOA Fire and Emergency Services are now going on 26 years since its inception. On the occasion of National Fire Service Day, April 14, 2010, the officers and other personnel of the department pay homage to the professional brethren who made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of saving others’ lives and property.
INVESTIGATIONS revealed that on February 19, 2008, the officers of Panaji Police Station arrested accused Minardo D’Souza in Case CR No. 10/2008 under sections 143,147,148,341,307,120-B read with Section 149 IPC in which he along with his five other accomplices had assaulted one Babani Shaikh of Taleigao. During interrogation he disclosed the name of one Ryan Godinho as his accomplice in Panaji PS CR No. 06/2008 dated January 4, 2008 wherein they had sprayed pepper spray in the casino at Hotel Cidade de Goa, Panaji which caused discomfort and choking to the guests at the casino.
