Category Archives: Governance
Women block mining traffic at Sanquelim
About nine women from Navelim-Sanquelim on Wednesday morning blocked mining traffic for about four hours to protest against mining pollution.
Protest brewing in Vanxim
Protests against ‘mega projects’ have a habit of springing up when least expected and this has more to do with the quite and silent ways in which the Town and Country Planning Department operates.
Navelim too opposes highway widening
The Navelim civic and consumer forum (NCCF), at a meeting on Sunday, unanimously resolved to oppose the widening of the existing NH 17 to 60 metres, and has condemned the attitude of the Central government of “issuing threats of diverting the highway”.
Go for diversions, not demolitions: Protesters
NHAI’s realignments to reduce demolitions in Goa are not acceptable to the people who would be affected and they want NHAI to construct diversions so that their houses could be saved.
Mainland Discourse
Across India, there is a bonding of searing pain, especially in its northern and eastern peripheries. The hurt and tumult envelops families and communities in a shroud of despair, whether it is in the Northeast, Jammu and Kashmir or earlier in Punjab. The media misses the point that lack of services exacerbates alienation and therefore fuels […]
Vanxim islanders to intensify agitation against resort project
From The Navhind Times, 25th october 2010 Islanders of Vanxim in Sao Mathias panchayat, Malar have once against reiterated their resolve to oppose the proposed resort and golf course project in their village.
Curfew lifted from almost entire Kashmir Valley
Barring Sopore town, curfew was lifted on the 13th October 2010 from the entire Kashmir Valley but normal life was disrupted due to a strike called by hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference.
Emotion To Bald Economics
By Sugata Srinivasaraju, as published in the Outlook issue 1 February 2010. What wish did we as a people make six decades ago when we presented ourselves a string of ideals through the Constitution and what have we become now? If putting together a constitution was about defining ourselves, how honest have we stayed to that formulation […]
We’ll work to become permanent UN Security Council member: SM Krishna
After India was almost unopposed elected Asian regional representative to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday, foreign minister SM Krishna said in New Delhi the overwhelming support was in recognition of its contribution to some of the major developments in the world.
Political Patronage and Corruption
BY SRINIVASAN K RANGACHARY THE Commonwealth Games have taught us a lesson-that we as a people have lost all sense of honour and responsibility? Winston Churchill must be laughing in his grave. The sad thing is that we have no one to provide moral leadership. As a nation we are drifting.