DALAI LAMA APOLOGISES FOR REMARKS ON JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
AGENCIES|BENGALURU Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today regretted blaming former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and thanked him for sheltering thousands of exiled Tibetans after they fled from their motherland. “My statements (on Nehru) have created a controversy. I apologise if I said something wrong,” the 83-year-old Nobel laureate told reporters on the…
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GOA POLICE TO CONDUCT SPECIAL DRIVE AGAINST DRUNKEN DRIVING
PANAJI Goa Police will conduct a special drive against drunken driving between 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm in the state today. In an order, Goa Director General of Police Dr Muktesh Chander has said each and every alcometer in working condition would be used and all SDPOs, Police Station Incharges, Traffic PIs, Dy SP Traffic would be in the field in…
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JAVELIN THROWER NEERAJ NAMED INDIA’S FLAG-BEARER FOR ASIAN GAMES OPENING CEREMONY
AGENCIES|NEW DELHI Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was today named the Indian contingent’s flag-bearer for the Asian Games opening ceremony to be held on August 18 in Jakarta. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra made the announcement today during the send-off ceremony organised for the contingent. The Games will be held from August 18 to September 2 in the Indonesian…
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NARAYAN BANDEKAR APPOINTED CHIEF MENTOR, Dr PRAMOD SAWANT CHIEF PATRON OF JCI WORLD CONGRESS IN GOA
AGENCIES|PANAJI Junior Chamber International president Marc Brian Lim from the Philippines during his official review visit to Goa appointed industrialist and philanthropist Narayan Rajaram Bandekar as the chief mentor and Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker Dr Pramod Sawant as the chief patron of the JCI World Congress 2018 to be organised in Goa from October 30 to November 3, 2018. Speaking on the…
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GENERAL BODY MEETING OF NORTH GOA ZILLA PANCHAYAT HELD
AGENCIES|PANAJI The General Body Meeting of North Goa Zilla Panchayat was held at the Secretariat in Porvorim on Thursday. Ankita Navelkar, president North Goa ZP, chaired the meeting. According to a statement here, in the meeting, minutes of last meeting were discussed and resolutions were passed to provide grass cutters and generators to Zilla Panchayats. Vasudev Korgaonkar, vice-president, along with other ZP members were…
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MURDER WEAPONS RECOVERED BY POLICE IN CANDOLIM CASE
CALANGUTE Police on Thursday recovered the sword and knife used by the accused to murder Candolim-based hotelier Vishwajit Singh earlier this week. Singh, who was working as the manager of a hotel at Bamonvaddo in Candolim, was assaulted by two accused with the sword and knife at around 1.30am on Tuesday in the parking area of an apartment complex where he…
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PARRIKAR TO LEAVE FOR USA TOMORROW, WILL RETURN ON AUGUST 17
PANAJI Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will leave for the US tomorrow for a check up of his pancreatic ailment and would return on August 17, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) informed today. The CMO in a statement released here has said that Parrikar would not be available in the State between August 10 to 17 in the State. A senior CMO official said that…
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PARTITION COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF NEHRU WASN’T SELF-CENTERED: DALAI LAMA
AGENCIES|PANAJI “Had Jawaharlal Nehru not been self-centred, India and Pakistan would have been one country,” the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday, adding that while Nehru was gifted with experience, mistakes do occur. “Mahatma Gandhi wanted to give the prime ministership to (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah. But Nehru refused. He was self-centred. He said, ‘I wanted to be Prime Minister’. India and Pakistan…
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GOA GOVT FILES CONTEMPT PETITION AGAINST KARNATAKA OVER MHADEI ISSUE
PANAJI Goa government has filed a contempt petition in Supreme Court against Karnataka over Mhadei issue. Sidelining orders of Court Karnataka has continued its canal work at Kankumbi and diverted Mhadei riverwaters to Malprabha basin. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, WRD Minister Vinod Palyekar and WRD ministry have also written to Karnataka government about the contempt of Court orders.
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PANAJI Karnataka police today detained eight officials from Water Resources department who were on the visit to Mhadei river dam site. “Eight officials from our team which had visited the site where Karnataka has blocked Mhadei river were detained today by Karnataka police,” Goa Water Resources Department Minister Vinod Palyekar said. Palyekar said that the officials from his department were questioned by…
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