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Friday, August 29, 2025
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Topic: Goa Congress

Voters in swimming pool give politicians chills & why netas prefer Goa’s beaches to Colombo’s

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Fake news’ peddlers Pythagoras & Newton, and how Rajapaksas drove Lanka’s economy off a cliff

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

TMC, AAP lodge complaints against each other over bribery video on TV channel

The channel had broadcast a video claiming one TMC and 3 Congress candidates had taken bribes to change their party affiliation in case they win the Assembly polls scheduled.

With no pan-Goa leader, these 5 power couples could have a bearing on 25% of its assembly seats

Five couples are in the fray in Goa elections and their political ambitions have been the source of upheaval.

A first for P Chidambaram at 76 — top ex-minister turns political strategist for Goa Congress

P. Chidambaram has set about rejuvenating Congress in Goa. Party members say senior leader's participation on the ground is sending a message about Congress' seriousness in Goa.

‘We’ll not switch sides’: Congress could take Goa ‘anti-defection oath’ to Manipur too

Congress emerged as single-largest party in Goa & Manipur in 2017 but failed to form govt as it couldn’t gather numbers. A series of defections followed in both states.

Goa Congress makes election candidates take ‘anti-defection’ pledge before God

Senior leader P Chidambaram and GPCC president Girish Chodankar accompanied all 34 candidates to Mahalaxmi temple in Panaji, a church at Bambolim, and dargah in Betim village near Panaji.

Goa MLA Aleixo Lourenco quits TMC a month after joining it from Congress

Reginaldo was an MLA from Curtorim and was working president of Goa Congress when he quit the party and the state Assembly in December.

‘Not right to shift parties for power’ — why Congress wants to end ‘virus of defection’ in Goa

Over the past five years, Congress has especially been stung by defections in Goa. In 2017, it emerged as single largest party with 17 MLAs in 40-member house. Now it's down to 2. 

On Camera

India must move Japan from ‘old friend’ trap to real partners

PM Modi’s visit to Japan comes at the right moment to recalibrate a relationship long described as “natural” but left underutilised. We must free it from the warm and fuzzy comfort of nostalgia

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.