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No limit to hypocrisy under BJP regime

People who never asked how the son of a mother who washed utensils in neighbours' houses travelled to US, France, UK, Japan, New Zealand and many other countries, while claiming to be living by begging for alms are asking Abhijeet Dipke of the CJP about his education and living expenses in US? Are they asking him because he comes from a backward caste? Abhijeet is asking for details of PMCares Fund. Dipke should have put all the financial details of his scholarship in the public domain and then challenged the PM to do likewise, rather than offering to reveal only if Modi revealed his own details. That would have shamed Modi and his supporters (hopefully). There is a limit to hypocrisy, as someone so famously said.


REKHA SARIN, Benaulim 

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80% Goan jobs clause: Strategy or commitment?

The Goan Network
Published Aug 12, 2026, 10:58 PM IST
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I read with interest your report on the Goan workforce clause for the new Mumbai-based pharma company coming up in Verna. Goa has been witnessing continuous citizen protests against large construction projects, both residential and commercial — like Bhutani, Abhinandan Lodha, IIT, Unity Mall etc. Most have been targeted for their environmental impact and lack of local benefit. Amid this, yet another commercial project is making an entry into Verna. What I find remarkable is…

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