GOA OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS: WILL NATIONAL SPORTS CODE BE FOLLOWED ?
SANDEEP HEBLE Earlier this year Shri Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had asked states to adopt the National Sports Code in order to achieve best results. “This (Sports code) will go a long way to free the state/district level sports bodies, which are run as fiefdom by a few bureaucrats/ politicians, etc and contribute significantly for the development of sports in the…
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IPL SHOWDOWN
Saidutt Kamat Indian Premier League(IPL) is all about T20 cricket, thrilling contests, emerging stars, champions, etc and this is going on since last 11 years. IPL 11 which started in the first week of April is now in the final week of the season and with qualifier 1 it is now cleared that team in yellow Chennai Super Kings will be…
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INDIA’S JUDICIAL SYSTEM NEEDS “ACCHE DIN”
Sandeep Heble “Justice delayed is justice denied” is an age-old legal maxim. It means if someone who’s in need of justice does not get it in a timely manner, then it is as good as no justice at all. Consider the case ofa personwho has been thrown out of his own house and it takes him a whole twenty or…
READ more..OPINION POLL
RAAJ GONSALVES Congratulations to all Goans on the Opinion Poll Day. It’s a historic day and an important milestone in the history of Goa. All the Goans know the history and importance of this day, but today on this historic occasion I would like to discuss to what the Goans got out of it. What the…
READ more..LET’S MAKE OUR ROADS SAFE: PART 2
RAJ GONSALVES Practice What You Preach Often we are told to practice what we preach, but does that really happen? The rules and laws regulating the traffic are made by bureaucrats and politicians, and then, the responsibility to ensure their implementation is with the traffic police. Going by the saying: ‘practice what you preach’, the first people to respect these should be…
READ more..BIGGER THE VEHICLE BIGGER THE RESPONSIBILITY
RAJ GONSALVES As usual today when I left from home to drop my daughter to school, I just saw a banner at the O’Coqueiro circle in Porvorim put up by the traffic police which showed that they were celebrating the ‘Road Safety Week’ from Monday to Friday. After crossing it as I was nearing Mall de Goa, I saw a…
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