Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman journalist, underwent a potency test which came out positive.
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Goa CM said that all the seven persons are natives of Goa, but six of them had returned to the state from abroad.
Nunes had also moved an application for bail, but the court rejected it, the official added.
Elections to the 40-member Goa Assembly are due in two months. Recent visits by Banerjee, Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi heated up things in the otherwise "susegad" atmosphere in the small state.
'If you weed out corruption, you will bring glory to Goa.'
Parrikar will stay at his private residence in Panaji,
Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal spent the night at a police lock-up in Panaji with two murder accused and an anti-social person, after he was arrested by the crime branch.
Parrikar was discharged from Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital on February 22, a week after he was admitted there.
The woman's face was smashed with a blunt object. It is a case of murder, police said.
He further commented on the current state of public discourse, saying a "mob rule" is being created wherein politicians capitalise on certain incidents and assure people of the death penalty for culprits even though only the judiciary has the power to pass legal verdicts.
Before leaving for Mumbai on Tuesday, Parrikar held a series of meetings, including one with senior state ministers.
Rescuers said 15 more people are still trapped in the debris.
BJP leader from Haryana and actor Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack in Goa, police said on Tuesday.
Singer Remo Fernandes has been issued summons by Goa Police to appear before it for threatening a minor girl, but he said he would not be able to present as he is out of the country.
The inmates broke the security ring and reached near the jail's main gate, but were stopped by police teams which were rushed to control the situation.
Dr Silvano Sapeco, a forensic expert in the state-owned Goa Medical College and hospital, was suspended on Monday from the Scarlett murder case investigation. The state government felt there was a mistake on his part, Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane told PTI this morning, refusing to elaborate on the 'mistake'. Scarlett's bruised corpse was found on Goa's popular Anjuna beachfront on February 18.Sapeco did not express the possibility of homicidal drowning.
During police investigation, the role of the third woman, who is absconding, also came to light.
With this, five people have so far been arrested in the case.
The Goa police on Thursday pressed a charge of murder against two associates of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sonali Phogat soon after autopsy was conducted on her body.
With this, the Congress's strength in the 40-member assembly reduced to 14 from 16.
The culling of key state leaders and bureaucrats has given rise to distrust and uneasiness in Pramod Sawant's style of functioning, notes Aditi Phadnis.
A Goa court on Wednesday rejected an application filed by Tehelka magazine Editor Tarun Tejpal seeking permission to get a fan installed in the police lock up where he is being kept.
Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexual assaulting a woman journalist, is sticking to his version that whatever happened between the two was a "consensual act", a police officer said on Thursday.
Goa police investigating an allegation against famous pop singer Remo Fernandes that he threatened a minor girl, have sought CCTV footage of the ward at GMCH.
If pandemic (mis)management threatened to dominate Goa's electoral discourse, the BJP is up against a deeper structural issue in its organisation, created by the fact that a majority of the legislature party and the ministerial council is made up of Congress defectors, disparagingly referred to by the Opposition as "imports". Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
Railway sources said in a release that 50 persons were killed and 25 injured in the mishap and the figure was wrongly quoted as 51 as one body was counted twice in inter-hospital transfers.
In a video message, Parrikar, 62, appealed people to continue praying for his health.
After the court order, Remo, in a statement, said, 'I have full faith in the judiciary, and I know that the truth will surface soon, as it usually does.'
The protest continued even as the Supreme Court intervened in the matter and constituted a 10-member National Task Force to formulate a protocol for ensuring the safety and security of doctors and other healthcare professionals.
The doctor said this is his way of sending across a message to everybody to not reject these patients, whom he termed as "COVID angels".
Parrikar was brought to Mumbai by a flight after initial examination at the GMCH for apparent food poisoning, an official in the chief minister's office had said earlier.
He was a leader who enjoyed acceptance from all sections of the BJP and beyond.
'My primary point was where is the Mamata Banerjee who jumps and reaches out, starts talking directly and starts solving over the heads of the bureaucracy.'
Noted fusion artist and playback singer Remo, summoned by police for allegedly threatening a minor girl has surrendered his Indian citizenship and became a Portuguese national.
Much better films about the explosive -- if often misdirected -- energy of the young have been made before than Dange, points out Deepa Gahlot.
Pop singer Remo Fernandes was on Friday arrested by Goa Police and later released on a bail bond when he appeared before investigating officer in connection with a case of alleged verbal abuse of a minor girl.
Notwithstanding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's warning of strict action if work is not resumed, the junior doctors carried on with their agitation.
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