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Banks to remain closed today in support of strike

PANAJI: Banks in Goa will remain closed on Tuesday as part of strike call given by the Goa Bank Employees Association on lines with a nationwide bank strike.
The charter of demands by the bank employees includes opposition to privatization of banks, a halt on plans of mergers and consolidation of Banks as well as liberal write offs of corporate Non-Performing Assets.
They have also demanded stricter action against wilful defaulters in the form of declaring wilful default of bank loans as criminal offence as well as implementation of the recommendations of Parliamentary Committee on recovery of NPAs and to ensure accountability of Top Management/Executives for bad loans and put in place stringent measures to recover bad loans.
The strike is supported by the members of the constituent unions of United Forum of Bank Unions (AIBEA, AIBOC, NCBE, AIBOA, BEFI, INBEF, INBOC, NOBW, NOBO) who have all given a joint strike call.
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Desecration probe rebuffed; Church team puts spotlight on 'larger design'

The Goan Network
Published Aug 22, 2017, 3:28 AM IST
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Desecration probe rebuffed; Church team puts spotlight on 'larger design'

PANAJI: The independent fact finding committee backed by the Council for Social Justice and Peace, the social arm of the Church has termed the investigation carried out by the police as "lazy and under political influence" as they maintained their original stance that the desecrations could not be the work of one man alone.Addressing a press conference, three members of the fact finding committee -- Fr Savio Fernandes and Ranjan Solomon of the CSJP and Irfan Engineer of the…

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