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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Express Photo by Anil Sharma)

Rahul Gandhi to arrive in Goa on Saturday

October 30, 2021 09:23 IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who also has engagements in Goa until Saturday afternoon, will wrap up her three-day visit to the state on Saturday evening.

Mamata in Goa: TMC stands for Temple, Mosque, ChurchSubscriber Only

October 30, 2021 08:43 IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee visited three iconic temples in South Goa — the Mangueshi temple, the Shri Mhalsa Narayani Temple and the Tapobhoomi temple.

Leander Paes joins TMC in presence of Mamata Banerjee on Friday. (Express Photo)

Leander Paes joins TMC in Goa as party gears up for Assembly polls

October 29, 2021 14:00 IST

“Happy to inform that Leander Paes joins TMC. I am too happy. He is my younger brother. I know him since I was the youth minister and he was very very young,” Banerjee said while inducting the tennis star.

Mamata Banerjee interacts with fishermen at Betim on Thursday afternoon. (Express Photo)

In her first address to TMC workers in Goa, Mamata Banerjee vows to end ‘Delhi’s bullying’Subscriber Only

October 29, 2021 15:01 IST

The TMC leader insisted that she wasn't an outsider and said she wanted to ensure that Goa had a system, policing, federalism and an anti-corruption government

Mamata arrives in Goa, poster war heats upSubscriber Only

October 29, 2021 08:27 IST

Ahead of her arrival, hoardings bearing “Jai Shree Ram” were put up in many places in Goa, next to hoardings of Banerjee with the Goa TMC’s catch phrase “Goenchi Navi Sakal” (Goa’s new dawn).

File photo of political strategist Prashant Kishor (Express Photo)

BJP to stay for many decades, Rahul Gandhi doesn’t realise it: Prashant Kishor

October 29, 2021 08:33 IST

BJP's Ajay Sehrawat is among those who have tweeted the clip. "Eventually, Prashant Kishor acknowledged that BJP will continue to be a force to reckon with in Indian politics for decades to come," he wrote.

The court said instead of reading out the evidence, the lawyers could just "point out the paragraph number".(File)

Tarun Tejpal case: Don’t read out evidence, says HCSubscriber Only

October 28, 2021 05:58 IST

Opposing Tejpal's plea seeking in-camera proceedings, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, arguing for the Goa government, said the trial court's order to acquit him was "retrograde and regressive" and "fit for the fifth century".

Tarun Tejpal case: Don’t read out evidence, says HCSubscriber Only

October 28, 2021 04:41 IST

The Vijay Sardesai-led GFP is preparing to contest 12 seats in the forthcoming Assembly polls. (Facebook)

GFP rules out merger with TMC, keeps alliance door openSubscriber Only

October 27, 2021 22:07 IST

While he had been calling for a “united opposition” to defeat the BJP, the GFP chief said more and more parties entering the poll fray and the opposition’s failure to unite would only benefit the ruling party.

On May 21 this year, a sessions court acquitted Tejpal, the former editor-in-chief of the Tehelka magazine. (File)

Victim named and shamed, trial court order ‘retrograde’, ‘fit for 5th century’: Goa govt to Bombay HC

October 27, 2021 13:39 IST

Justice Dere said "in not just this case, but in all the cases of rape, we will not allow lawyers to read the evidence, we will read it ourselves".

After ex-Guv alleges corruption, opposition guns for Goa CM’s resignation

October 26, 2021 23:46 IST

BJP says what ex-Guv said 'completely wrong'; should have maintained decorum

Surjewala said the Huzurabad bypolls have become the most corrupt and most expensive polls in India's electoral history. (Express File Photo)

Congress asks TMC to introspect if it is strengthening BJP in GoaSubscriber Only

October 26, 2021 16:43 IST

Elections are not tourism where you go to Goa for two months or five months and then return, Congress leader Randeep Surjewala told the Trinamool Congress

Trinamool Congress ‘connects’ Goa with West Bengal

October 26, 2021 10:35 IST

The leaders also made a case for the “connect” between West Bengal and Goa, which made Goa a “natural destination” for the TMC.

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Manish Sisodia says BJP will replace Goa CM before polls, saffron party dubs claim as ‘baseless’Subscriber Only

October 24, 2021 02:57 IST

Sisodia claimed that the BJP had drawn up a ‘10-point failure list’ which included issues such as “mismanagement” of Covid-19 and Cyclone Tauktae, “deteriorating” law-and-order, and “scams”.

Officers said they’re investigating the matter and trying to trace people who were going to receive the consignment in Delhi. (Representational)

Don’t want tourists who consume drugs, cook in bus: Goa tourism minister

October 19, 2021 23:15 IST

Goa ports minister Micheal Lobo on Tuesday said that he will write to the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) not to allow cruise ships found with ‘drugs’ to dock in Goa.

Luizinho Faleiro, former chief minister and a sitting Congress legislator who resigned from the party last month, had said that he was joining the TMC to bolster Mamata Banerjee as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most formidable opponent. (File photo)

Day after quitting party, 200 Congress workers join Trinamool in Goa

October 20, 2021 03:14 IST

The president of the Valpoi Block Congress Committee Dashrath Mandrekar and eight other office-bearers were part of the group that joined the TMC on Tuesday afternoon. General secretary of Congress Mahila Wing Priya Rathore also jumped the ship.

Sawant said he wanted leaders of national parties to come to Goa so that business (of the hotel industry and taxi operators) would grow. (File)

Goa CM: Bhumiputra Bill won’t be sent to GovernorSubscriber Only

October 20, 2021 05:03 IST

The Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill, 2021 that was passed in the Goa Assembly on July 30 had since been at the centre of a political storm.

Opposition MLAs cornered the government over the report of the three-member committee probing the oxygen supply to the Government Medical College (GMC) and Hospital. (Representational)

Opp questions Goa govt over report on oxygen supply to GMCSubscriber Only

October 19, 2021 01:42 IST

The report of the committee appointed by the state government said the Goa Association of Resident Doctors flagged the issue of inadequate oxygen supply

At the peak of the second wave in Goa, GMC relied on oxygen supply of trolleys that were driven by tractors from the supplier M/S Scoop’s plant, about 45 minutes away from the hospital. (Representational)

GMC oxygen crisis: Panel says nothing unusual about death data; blames hospital for not raising supply issuesSubscriber Only

October 18, 2021 05:21 IST

Health minister Vishwajit Rane had stirred up a storm when he claimed on May 11 that 26 Covid-19 patients had died in the Goa Medical College in the early hours of the day when supply of oxygen was interrupted.

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HC junks plea against bar on entry of Goans in casinosSubscriber Only

October 17, 2021 02:42 IST

“Decision to prohibit entry for the persons other than the tourist which excludes persons domiciled or permanent residents of Goa is a conscious decision of the State, considering its evil consequences on its subject,” the court observed.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant (File Photo)

As TMC opens office, Goa CM Pramod Sawant says Cong main opposition

October 16, 2021 03:09 IST

TMC is the latest entrant in the arena that already has, apart from BJP and Congress, parties such as AAP, Goa Forward Party (GFP) and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP).

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses BJP workers during a meeting, at Taleigao in North Goa, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Amit Shah takes dig at Manmohan, says Modi has enhanced value of Indian passport

October 15, 2021 09:07 IST

“During the Congress government, it was such a coalition that it was laughable... each minister considered themselves the Prime Minister but no one thought of the helpless PM as the Prime Minister,” Shah said.

Amit Shah calls for ‘full majority’ govt in Goa, raises Ram Mandir, Art 370Subscriber Only

October 15, 2021 02:32 IST

Addressing a BJP workers’ gathering in Taleigaon, Shah said, “Everybody talks about the double engine government...This time, we don’t want a government of few bogies. We want a full majority government on our own symbol.