Vishwajit Rane News
Panjim has been named the Cleanest City in its category at the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2024-25, with Health Minister Vishwajit Rane crediting the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Panjim's 16-way waste segregation. Goa has maintained ODF status since 2023.
Goa embarked on an ambitious mission to become malaria-free by 2025-26. Health Minister Vishwajit Rane details the roadmap, including mandatory screenings, public awareness, and inter-departmental coordination.
The controversy involving use of formalin -- a carcinogenic chemical used to preserve cadavers in morgues -- in fish erupted in July last year, after an FDA team found traces of formalin in fish being sold in a South Goa fish market during a raid.
A 14-member delegation of Congress had arrived at Raj Bhavan uninvited, to meet Governor Mridula Sinha to stake claim to the government in the state.
The 63-year-old senior BJP leader, suffering from a serious ailment since the last one year and recuperating at his private residence at Dona Paula, was admitted to GMCH late on Saturday night.
In Goa, no identification proof equates to no medical treatment in hospitals, all thanks to the state's new policy.
The results for Assembly polls in four constituencies falling in Delhi, Goa and Andhra Pradesh were declared on Monday.
Goa CM Manohar Parrikar wins Panaji Assembly by-election, defeating his Congress rival Girish Chodankar.
There would be a straight fight as Goa BJP president Vinay Tendulkar and state Congress chief Shantaram Naik are the only two candidates who have filed nominations.
Goa minister Vishwajit Rane, who parted ways with the Congress after the Assembly polls, on Saturday claimed that the party would be wiped out under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Still smarting from party leader Vishwajit Rane's high-profile cross over to the BJP, the Congress on Monday said it is of the view that he should never be allowed back in the party fold in future.
Vishwajit Rane, who quit the Congress to join the BJP last week, says that party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is "non-serious" and an inaccessible leader and under his leadership the grand old party would be reduced to just 20 seats in the 2019 general election.
Former Congress legislator Vishwajit Rane on Thursday officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and state party President Vinay Tendulkar.
BJP sources said Vishwajit Rane could soon be inducted into the Manohar Parrikar-led coalition cabinet.
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Congress is facing a rebellion as senior leader Vishwajit Rane has threatened to quit the party.
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