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From: Pushpa Iyengar
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:05 AM
Subject: Goa CM's Rs 32.68-Crore Advertising Largesse Ensures He’s in Firm
Control of Media
To: Pushpa Iyengar , Lionel Messias <
lionroars@gmail.com>
https://thewire.in/media/pramod-sawa
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Look around, u know what I mean. Also with the exception of a known few,
their husbands actually run the show
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited
.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad),
Newstime (Hyderabad), Gulf News
learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad
ous
return to the drawing board to re-visit the design multiple times”.
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightl
learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad
be a financial constraint and would not have enough work.
But since it was set up, the NGT’s Pune bench has passed more than a 100
judgements in Goa-related matters.
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel
of cement, which is hugely polluting, he is
pouring in to fulfil his so-called development which includes building
gigantic bridges.
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*
30,000 crores packaged water bottle
industry after initial bravado, Cabral too got cold feet over banning
manufacture of plastic bags.
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor
learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad),
Newstime
learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad),
Newstime
, now prostitution is practiced
in residential areas, Being tech-savvy in CSA has become a curse.
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Mag
, the young out looking for
jobs and in general, the ones not so privileged.
--
*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine
The Goanspirit newsletter for September 13, 2019
To the Manor Born -2
By Lionel Messias
September 13, 2019
An aggressively enterprising politician he has been on the fast lane
always. He bought 14 properties in God's Own Country apart from all that he
acquired in Goa during his term as chairman
is much sought after by the members
of the Iyengar community who can find his hub because the aroma wafting
from his kitchen leads you by the nose!
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
ready know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Econ
new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad),
Newstime (Hyderabad
-lost-the-plot-already-3
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa
.
--
*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald
repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express
ew.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad),
Newstime (Hyderab
if
necessary. And yes, definitely screw the environment...
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*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
hen you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-
scale even if
you take into account Goa’s low taxation rate on alcohol. For the record,
Karnataka’s IMFL and beer sales revenue for 2017-18 was Rs 17,948.5 cr."
--
*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai
’
and to do nothing about it, are in equal parts, new-age Goan folklore, if
that makes sense.”
--
*When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you
listen, you may learn something new.*
* - Dalai Lama *
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online
have gotten out of hand.
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/footprint-india/461-86-national-tourism-awards-2012-13-won
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day
/letters/460-ttag-s-never-ending-demands
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad
originated
in Finland in the late 90s and is owned by Stewart Miller, a Scotsman, and
is played on a wet marshy swamp pitch with a few variations to add fun to
the game.
*Full Story:*
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/footprint-india/457-caravan-to-rajasthan
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Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan
the music being played by
shacks.
Full story:
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/454-ashvem-restaurant-owner-gets-notice-for-playing-loud-music
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak
-kerala-shows-the-way-yet-again*http://goanspirit.com/index.php/footprint-india/445-kerala-shows-the-way-yet-again
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day
/index.php/footprint-india/443-film-making-contest-to-promote-india
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times
/footprint-india/439-teens-binge-drink-at-christmas
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad
from ‘Haystack’; with the advent of
the bulk carriers, the charter of the cumbersome freighters has greatly
declined, and subsequently affected the modus operandi of drug trafficking
into Goa.
Full story: http://goanspirit.com/index.php/lead/432-goa-s-drug-menace-2
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan
NEW
November 25-December 1, 2013
*GOA’S DRUG MENACE: Little changed in decades - 1*
This investigative article by *Lionel Messias* appeared on GOA TODAY
(January, 1986: THE DRUG MENACE: GETTING HIGH) and is being reproduced now
to show that the drug menace as it existed in the Eighties
the keys back to the owners
(metaphorically speaking) because there is money to be made for them; the
raids and closure done for public consumption only.
Full story: http://goanspirit.com/index.php/lead/422-dirty-dancing-3
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly
way
or the other, and the Goa police, all of whom joined the force to make easy
money. It’s why you join the Goa Police, plain and simple. Country and
constitution be damned.
Full story:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/419-big-brother-parrikar
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit
!
Full story: http://goanspirit.com/index.php/lead/413-mining-malaise-6
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore
--
Lionel Messias
*New*
*Goanspirit: October 21 - 27, 2013*
*Lion Roars - 27*
*No yeast rise for Goan Poders – 2, True Swadeshi*
……According to John Vaz, Vasco’s baker extraordinaire, a three-member
family (husband, wife, son) can barely survive making 900 *pao’s* on the
first 50 kg
was a masterstroke.
Read Full Story:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/twt/395-shooting-from-d-souza-s-shoulder
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian
sending
a copy of the letter to Caitu was a blunder.
Read Full Story:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/389-mani-honey
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald
, because the
signboard uses symbols to describe “acceptable” and “unacceptable” attire.
Read Full Story:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/news-summary/385-sartorial-correctness-in-the-basilica
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine
had worked
for 20 years with the customs) and emerge still content.
Read Full Story:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/travel/379-masterchef-in-teaching
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best
://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/lion-roars/lion-roars-2013/367-lion-roars-21
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic
the
expiry of their agreements.”
Read Full Story:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/contact-us/letters/111-the-week-that-was/364-one-man-s-meat-is-another-man-s-poison
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked
NEW
If you receive this more than once, please bear with me. I am understaffed
and underpaid, that’s why.
*SHACK ATTACK: Following the script - 4*
*Lionel Messias*
It’s not only the shack owners that are given the short shrift by the
government. The guesthouse owner (also the taxi owner
--
NEW
If you receive this more than once, please bear with me. I am understaffed
and underpaid, that’s why.
* SHACK ATTACK: Following the script - 3*
*Lionel Messias*
*Strangers in their own land*
In April 2008 the shacks of 15 Goans were demolished after the Tourism
Department declared
story:
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/lion-roars/lion-roars-2013/342-lion-roars-17
*August 5-11, 2013*
*SHACK ATTACK: Following the script - 2*
*Lionel Messias*
*Shacks are shackled*
……While successive governments did not bat an eyelid when it came to
gambling with the livelihoods
application, but one learns by now
to wait and see.” ……..
Full story: http://goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/335-fyi-on-cic
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid
Bandodkar……
Full story:
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/lion-roars/lion-roars-2013/330-lionroars-15
July 22-28, 2013
*Nutritional bang for your buck*
*Lionel Messias*
At 65, David Gower (“not to be confused with the cricketer, I was born
before him”) might have “been a foreigner wherever I lived
://goanspirit.com/index.php/contact-us/letters/111-the-week-that-was/328-proof-of-the-pudding
*July 15-21, 2013*
*Goa’s Vintage Vinters*
*Lionel Messias*
Like wine is all about how long it is matured, it seems logical to assume
that homemade wine makers traditionally called vintners are matured
. “That is not the issue now,” he said firmly.
Full story:
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/news-summary/322-long-road-ahead-for-congress
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid
….
Full story:
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/news-summary/314-a-blooming-nuisance-says-nuvem
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
**
Website:www.goanspirit.com
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian
get off the ground. ……….
Read full story:
http://goanspirit.com/index.php/lead/308-runaway-failures-a-tale-of-failed-airport-projects-4
*A church that has seen better days*
*Lionel Messias*
….The church has a playground whose revenue from two annual feasts and
hiring it out to tiatrs
NEW
June 17-23, 2013
*Of subsistent salaries*
*Lionroars -10*
GIDC's paperless business transactions
The GIDC, the biggest (by current ranking) scamster among government
departments and corporations after the PWD, has identified the following
land to set up the money spinning plots it sells
NEW THIS WEEK
Soft landing on Sriperumbudur
It is difficult to ascertain at this point in time when the idea of
another airport for Chennai - at Sriperumbudur - was first ideated; but in
May 2007, the then Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi did announce
that his government had identified
government decided for 2022 at 40 Billion Euros. (
http://www.contratom.de/2012/04/11/greenpeace-versorger-haben-zu-geringe-atom-rucklagen/
).
--
Lionel Messias
Editor,
*Goan Spirit*, *Goa's Spirited Online Weekly Magazine.*
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day
New
1. Grassroot democracy in the gutter: read about the total abuse of
basic panchayat rules in Nuvem -for example retaining unutilized an amount
of Rs 14,85,000 for years without returning it to government , blatant
falsifying of accounts …..
*Lionel Messias*
This is the depressing story of an errant village panchayat (VP) of Nuvem
and a delinquent priest Fr. Alvaro Martins, parish priest of the Mae Dos
Pobres Church in the same village.
Read more in Goanspirit:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/lead/275-a-vp-and-a-priest-violate
, it just might have happened at least
with one MLA.
Read More on the Goanspirit website at:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/277-lion-roars-6
--
Lionel Messias
Independent Journalist
SILENCE SURPASSES SPEECH
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer
, that is, five days including the Sunday holiday!
Read more about Akhil Gupta's other feats in Calangute and on the morally
bankrupt Calangute VP at:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/273-lion-roars-5
--
Lionel Messias
Independent Journalist
SILENCE SURPASSES SPEECH
Worked
: 'Needed:Time Out for Tiracol'.
--
--
Lionel Messias
Independent Journalist
SILENCE SURPASSES SPEECH
Worked for the best:
Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer,
Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad),
Newstime (Hyderabad), Gulf News (Hyderabad)
*Read my
LION ROARS
Goan football’s repulsive side
There is an obnoxious side to Goan football, the most popular game on the
planet. This story begins with Churchill Alemao wanting to be president of
the Goa Football Association for the term 2010-14. One obstacle he faced was
the fact that his brother
The Ghost Who Walks
The contract for the colossal new Collectorate building being built at
Margao was tendered in December 2007 at a cost of Rs 73,46,34,449. It won’t
be ready in June 2010 as scheduled but in December and the cost has already
escalated to Rs 77.50 cr which was expected. In fact,
Miss Moneypenny flows
It rained this year more than even Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, could have predicted even if he
could be accused of shooting off yet another set of rigged up figures on
climate change. In case, you’ve missed this – even
*Marketing of a scam *
This is how it’s done in scamgoa.com. First get the Goa State Infrastructure
Development Corporation (GSIDC) to build something as big as is possible,
like the Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) market. For a size
guestimate, look at the Ravindra Bhavan being built on
---
http://www.GOANET.org
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Goanet joins Noel Rebello to raise money for Daddy's Home (Margao, Goa)
Sponsor Noel
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http://www.GOANET.org
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Goanet mourns the passing of Cornel da Costa in London, England - Sep 10/10
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http://www.GOANET.org
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Goanet mourns the passing of Cornel da Costa in London, England - Sep 10/10
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http://www.GOANET.org
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Goanet mourns the passing of Cornel da Costa in London, England - Sep 10/10
*Fishy fiscal propriety*
Is Goa going broke? If the answer is no, it could well be getting there. A
former development commissioner now back in Delhi once told me the direction
in which the Digambar Kamat government was heading, it would hit financial
road’s end sooner than later weighed down as
*Calling the kettle black*
The Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) having its own way in Goa is nothing new. It’s
because our politicians, unlike those in other States, just hate to protect
anything that is Goan or can be identified as part of Goa. Only recently,
the MPT became an exception for the ruling
*Carte du jour*
The Minister for Revenue Jose Philip entertained modestly (remember, his
flying too was moderate compared to his compadres) between April
2009-February 2010, the only relevance here for you as a taxpayer is he
entertained some unnamed officials on June 5 and on November 6 he
*Party Time -1*
They spent Rs 93,42,544 (see earlier Flying Circus series) flying over a
relatively short period of less than two years. Nobody knows why really or
what was achieved from it, except the flying was primarily to Mumbai and
Delhi, some of it to holiday destinations and pilgrim
*Food for thought*
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat spent Rs 22,07,748 entertaining between April
2009-February 2010. It was the turn next of Vishwajeet Rane, the Health
Minister. But above the aroma of food, is a certain rot that could become
like a resident rot (like decaying wood in your window
*Will he upgrade?*
*Jose Philip D’Souza, Minister for Revenue*
Mercifully, he is not much of a frequent flier. He made 24 flights during
that same period. But, now that he has become the National Congress
President, heaven help us! Pray that his fairly regular patronage of Economy
Class (ten of
*Government of gatecrashers*
It’s terrifying the way the Congress government acquires land, your land.
One way to avoid that would be to sell your land, if you have sizeable
tracts of it, that is, and if it lies next to or near an existing industrial
estate. Of course if you are a bhatcar with
*UP STETHOSCOPE*
Suspecting they are being scammed, at least 18 insurance companies,
including four in the public sector, have delisted more than 150 hospitals
in Delhi and the National Capital Region (or NCR, which is basically the
Delhi region) from their designated list for Mediclaim
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Flying Circus - V
You ain't seen nothin yet!
Fortunately for your tax bucks, Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco, the former
Minister for Tourism blinked first in the Mexican stand-off and resigned,
but
Thanksgiving to the Lord
I said it before and I say it again. Tirupati is like a magnet for many of
our montris and our chief montri. He was there on June 23. It’s not a
coincidence that Kamath was there days after Babush merged his UGDP into the
Congress giving the Grand Old Party 19 MLAs.
Flying Circus (II) - Soccer Circus
Narvekar's clipped wings
The former Finance IT Minister Dayanand Narvekar spent only Rs 1,36,275 on
his flying but that was only because Digambar Kamat pressed his ejection
seat button jettisoning him out of the cabinet, which Narvekar would of
course argue,
More reason to squeal like pigs
He was in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, calling us names,
proving yet again and like a spoilt child that he just wouldn’t tolerate
even being rapped on the knuckles. Actually he was, ahem, squealing like a
pig! Remember, he accused the concerned
Flying Circus back in town -1
Yes, I am back with the Flying Circus and the flying expenses of ourmontris
courtesy your tax bucks. Your Chief Minister spent Rs 13,26,144 flying
mainly to New Delhi between April, 2008 and January 2010 my guess is on
those frequent fire-fighting missions to stave
FLYING CIRCUS -11
A healthy flight schedule
This week let’s have a look at the travel forays of Vishwajeet Rane, the
Minister for Health. Yes, the man and his henchmen called the Group of Seven
(G7) whose constant pressure on the Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to quit is
like a virus that has no
Blistering May
It’s going to be blistering the rest of May, sizzling even. Remember the Rs.
7,40,686 that Shaikh Aftab scammed in his capacity as supervisor of the
accounts and taxation section of the Corporation of the City of Panjim
(CCP). The sting was first exposed by the Comptroller and
*Vanxim Vanquished*
Jelton Fernandes, all of just 17, is one of those few concerned citizens in
an apathetic Goa I keep writing about in this column. He lives on Vanxim
island tucked away north-west off Divar island and in the news these days
because of the literally thousands of tons of sand
Egg or chicken?
What will come first, the much delayed Regional Plan 2021 for Goa or Goa’s
Mineral Policy? If the former is out first, this government will fall and
that is the odds on favourite and not all the income tax raids in the world
will make Humpty Dumpty (read as in the seven MLA’s
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
All that glitters is not gold
It’s what Indian politicians do, acquire land and donate it to rich
industrialists who never look a gift horse in the mouth, but the extent to
which Goan politicians will go to boggles the mind in land-scarce Goa. This
attempt to acquire land
Weighty issues
Going (coco)nuts over Assembly questions
Not a week passes without some central government ministry, state ministry,
or the Supreme Court making some comment or the other on the justification
of the Right To Information (that’s the only right you have in India gifted
by Sonia
VAT's Going On?
VAT’s what and What’s VAT
That’s what. Most of you know that VAT (Value Added Tax) is the new tax
regime that replaced the old. Some of you in industry know of another VAT
regime named after the daughter of a certain south Goa politician based out
of Circuit House in Margao,
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Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment
and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further
environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa
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and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further
environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa
Travails behind a dream house
*Garden Undone*
Battle lines have been drawn at Chowgule Gardens in Zuari Nagar close to the
Reliance power plant where reps of 114 resident families took me on a tour
last Sunday narrating a series of unfulfilled promises made by Chowgule Real
Estate Construction
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*Elbowed out in Mapusa*
Do you
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Sunday, January 24, 2010 Mr
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Denial
Mode
There is no drug scene in Goa. It is created by the media, by press people.
You will not get drugs here.” That was Goa’s home minister Ravi Naik.
Normally one would say famous last words, but
Touche’
A friend tells me that when she went to Paris over 20 years ago, the one
pleasure she looked forward to is to smoke in public and not scandalize
anyone. Since then smoking is not so cool and smoking in public is a no-no.
Many bars in Goa have a no smoking sign and most respect the ban
Fish out of water
That’s us, you and me, the real fish out of water albeit in a different
context here. Remember last week I said that there’s this scheme called the
‘Goa Value Added Tax based subsidy on HSD oil consumed by fishing vessels
scheme 2006’ wherein an amount equivalent to Rs 6 per
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