The government has not paid heed to the All Goa Private Bus Owners’ Associations complaints of corruption within the Department of Transport.

CLASHES amongst local hoodlums are becoming common again with innocent citizens being caught in the crossfire as proved by the recent incident that took place near the Goa Science Centre, Miramar on the evening of Friday, August 27. A Margao resident by the name of Arifa, who was sitting in a car along with a friend near Miramar beach, was injured in a violent quarrel between two rival gangs.

Employment Counselling Officer, Sunil Gaonkar admitted that there has been a sharp increase in the number of applicants seeking jobs in the last week with the daily average of 60-70 applicants now reaching almost 170-175. On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, approximately 153 applications were received.

Every cause now gives rise to the formation of NGOs.

The Indian Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks don’t resign.

NIDA SAYED spoke to international woman grandmaster Bhakti Kulkarni after she returned from Sri Lanka where she bagged her first Asian Junior Chess Championship.

Live TV has the uncanny ability to expose the core of a personality.

While Australian mine owners turned a hostile desert into an oasis, our mine owners took the best part of a god-given paradise and turned it into hell on earth.

MOTHERS FUSSING over their kids’ uniforms; daddies prepping vehicles to drop them off; the warmth of the steamy dabha in their bag packs, that familiar aroma of chalk dust on entering the classroom; the hubbub of the school campus mingled with excited screams of children running about and the cries of the tiny tots’ first time into the nursery. Indeed, the first day of school will always be one of its kind.

CALLING THE mid­night crackdown against Baba Ramdev and his supporters at Ramlila Ground in Delhi as the “be­ginning of the end of Delhi Sultanate”, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on pledged support to his fight against corruption and held Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directly re­sponsible for the “shameful” incident. He alleged that the Congress was scared of Ramdev’s fight against corruption because it was the “turn of its leaders to go to jail”.