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Bailancho Saad states that the senior officers of police committed a breach of trust who went partying at the casinos instead of conducting  surveillance of illegal activities of the casinos as was decided at the meeting of IGP with the NGO’s and Goa State Commission for Women.

Panaji Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Mr. Edgar Fernandes today directed Goa’s advocate General Mr. Subodh Kantak to pay Social activist Adv. Aires Rodrigues costs of Rs 500 for seeking an adjournment of the cross examination which was scheduled for today. It is for the first time in India’s history that a court has had to impose costs on an Advocate General.

Ten days after the Margao bomb blast, no arrests have been made and no discernable action is being taken, either by the police or on the political front. The perpetrators and accomplices, besides the two dead, are as yet unknown. This has led to an increase in the sense of insecurity in the still shaken people of the state.

With politicians across the board seeking political mileage from the recent blast in Margao on the eve of Diwali, Freddy Agnelo Fernandes wonders if the honchos in power are happy to maintain status quo, so they win whichever way the wind blows.

Gram Nyayalayas, a revolution in providing justice to the common man, by bringing access to their doorsteps, was launched on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi by the central government.

The Law Commission of Goa has proposed to create a framework to curb the sprouting of unauthorised religious shrines along the National Highways, major roads and other public spaces in Goa.

The Goa Chief Minister may have taken the stand that no action will be taken against transporters who went on strike on August 30. But a writ petition challenging the legality of such strikes has been filed before High Court.

You can get yourself a pizza, plane ticket or biryani home delivered, the Goa Traffic Police have now decided to send notices for traffic violators to their homes via the post. 

A middle-aged tourist couple from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh drowned in the sea along the Miramar beach on Monday morning. Three other members of the family were rescued by the locals.