'The Readjustment of Representation of Scheduled Tribes in Assembly Constituencies of the State of Goa Bill, 2025’ bill was passed in Lok Sabha on 5 August & in Rajya Sabha on 11 August.
Based on the Bill, the Election Commission will amend the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008, to make way for ST reservation in Goa Assembly.
Congress accuses ex-CM & ex-opposition leader of 'conspiracy with BJP' to engineer defections. 5 MLAs who went incommunicado on 10 July attend assembly Monday, say there's nothing wrong.
3 years after 10 Congress MLAs in Goa defected to BJP on 10 July, party is again facing rumoured rebellion & removed Michael Lobo as opposition leader Sunday for alleged conspiring with BJP.
The mining operations, which used to be one of the main sources of revenue for Goa, came to a grinding halt in the state in March 2018 after Supreme Court quashed 88 mining leases.
In what’s almost a local tradition, at least 6 MLAs in 40-member Goa House have resigned in the past three months, while two have pledged support to parties without quitting the assembly.
Former Goa CM Alemao said Trinamool will have one MLA in the state assembly 'even before elections' if speaker accepts his resolution to merge NCP legislative group with it.
Naik is expected to join the BJP. In October, former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro had resigned as Congress MLA and joined TMC. Goa is going to polls early next year.
In Goa for a day, Rahul Gandhi opted to connect more with locals — meeting fishermen, riding pillion on a bike taxi & eating at a roadside joint — striving to step into the realm of a common Goan.
Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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