According to senior officials in the MHA, the earlier lax tourist visa regime had emboldened several Russian and Israeli tourists to not only base themselves in Goa but also carry out businesses illegally. “The new visa rules will ensure that foreigners bring us earnings, rather than making an earning,” noted a senior home ministry official. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/NIA-nets-Goa-based-US-man/articleshow/5389943.cms
Goa Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco's stay at the plush Ritz Carlton hotel in London for a tourism mart has cost the government nearly Rs.1lakh, the state legislative assembly was told Tuesday. http://sify.com/news/Goa-minister-39-s-London-stay-cost-nearly-Rs-100-000-news-National-jmprkdajbhj.html Clarifying his remarks, Tharoor said: “I was summarising Lord Parekh’s main points. I went on to point out that there was more to Nehruvian policies than that, alluding to the use of force in Goa as an example of realpolitik in Indian policy,” he added. “Not one among the large numbers of professional diplomats present found anything controversial in the event,” Tharoor said. http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/11/201001112010011100195255763af08ae/Tharoor-blames-media.html -- Frederick Noronha