Mapusa police has filed a charge sheet against former Goa Cricket Association President Dayanand Narvekar for allegedly forging his son's birth certificate.
Goa's Ranji team interim captain Swapnil Asnodkar could find himself in deep trouble following deposition by a fellow-player before the Goa Cricket Association, claiming that he had hinted at calling off the match against Maharashtra, at Porvorim, near Panaji, during the fourth over itself.
Goa Cricket Association (GCA) on Saturday admitted 'loopholes' in organisation of the recent One-day International between India and Australia, which was called off without a ball being bowled due to rain.
'This is the first time in Goa politics that a communal leadership is being foisted on Goa's people.'
Sources said the Goa Appropriation Bill, 2008 could be under threat when it is taken up in the assembly, which is now in session if the mood of some of the ruling coalition's legislators, including the Nationalist Congress Party's ministers, is any indication.
He attended the meeting as a special invitee for being a former president of the BCCI but not as CCI representative.
A Goa court on Wednesday ordered the state government to frame charges against Goa Cricket Association president Dayanand Narvekar and nine others in connection with the ticket sale scam.
Information Technology giant Wipro would start its research and development project in Goa and the state government has already earmarked a land for the project, Goa's Information and Technology Minister, Dayanand Narvekar said on Wednesday.
An inquiry commission held Dayanand Narvekar guilty of being involved in printing, distribution and selling of fake tickets for the April 6, 2001, India-Australia match.
Although Gutka, pan masala and other flavoured tobacco products were banned from January 2003 under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, the apex court had struck down this notification a year later
Goa Cricket Association president Chetan Dessai, secretary Vinod Phadke and treasurer Akbar Mulla were today arrested by police for alleged misappropriation of over Rs three crore belonging to the organisation.
Goa Cricket Association has filed an FIR against its former office-bearers including president, in connection with an alleged fraud of Rs 28 lakh in 2008-09.
It is a record that the saffron party has created, where the majority of its legislators belonged to the minority community.
In keeping with the trend seen elsewhere in the country so far, an all-time-high 76.82 percent of the voters exercised the franchise in the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Goa on Saturday.
The fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections began on Friday, covering seven constituencies in four states where over half-a-crore voters decide the fate of 74 candidates.
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