SATURDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2026

Sawant should take Goa forward, not backward

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has now reportedly made Rs 20 crore provision in the State's maiden budget to rebuild and refurbish the temples destroyed during the Portuguese rule in Goa. Well, it looks like RSS trained Sawant wants to somehow make a selective list of religious structures of all the minorities with the sole intention of spreading some fabricated stories of the past to spread anti-minority hatred and mischievously start playing UP-type of communal hate politics to slowly disturb the centuries old communal harmony of this state for his own long-term political survival in Goa.

We Goans have historically lived peacefully in communal harmony in this state for the last so many years. We peace-loving Goans therefore want Pramod Sawant to instead do something about inflation to improve our living conditions by concentrating on some of the real issues that are badly affecting us today in Goa. Sawant must seriously learn to put his government in high speed gear to take Goa forward and head us Goans on a road of real genuine development cum prosperity in the years to come.



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Judges socialising with advocates undesirable

AIRES RODRIGUES, Ribandar
Published Mar 31, 2022, 8:50 PM IST
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Despite there being a very clear and categorical diktat by the Supreme Court that judges should not socialize with advocates, there seems to be no rigorous compliance of this very salutary prescription. Official tea parties within the court premises are okay. But highly spirited parties hosted at starred hotels are worrisome. It leads to a potential avenue for advocates to creep and cultivate convenient relationship with judges. It can also end up in funny, embarrassing and…

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