Former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco’s officer on special duty (when he was minister), Lyndon Monteiro, a co-accused in the case of the mysterious death of the ex-minister’s girlfriend Nadia Torrado, was summoned by the crime branch for interrogation on Saturday. The Supreme Court had allowed Mr Monteiro anticipatory bail while quashing Mr Pacheco’s plea.

Most of us would give our right hands to have a well-toned body like Shilpa Shetty or rippling six packs like John Abraham but what holds us back is the time and energy needed for it and the sacrifices one has to make to reach our goal.

Shikaar. The word itself conjures myriad images in our minds — jungle trails, sitting up in machaans waiting for the prey to arrive, duck hunts in marshes on moonlit nights…While hunting is out of the question these days — and rightfully so — we get a glimpse of what it was like in bygone days when the men of many well-to-do families would go on frequent shikaar trips with friends and sycophants through books and accounts of the hunters themselves.

Unattached United Goa Democratic Party (UGDP) legislator and Goa education minister Mr Atanasio Monserrate joined the Congress party on Monday unconditionally.
Addressing the media during the ceremony, chief minister Mr Digambar Kamat told reporters that there was no question of a Cabinet reshuffle as Mr Monserrate had j

Tainted NCP MLA and former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco moved the Panaji bench of the Bombay high court on Monday afternoon for anticipatory bail after his initial plea was rejected by a district session court last week.

In his anticipatory bail plea, former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco has stated that he did not have anything to do with the mysterious suicide of his girlfriend Nadia Torrado and that the allegations against him were “baseless”. Mr Pacheco, who went underground on Saturday after being interrogated by the Crime Branch, said in the bail plea that the fact Torrado’s family had repeatedly said that they did not suspect him of any foul play proved that he was innocent.

After being interrogated by the police for eight hours on Friday regarding the mysterious suicide of his “girlfriend” Nadia Torrado, Goa tourism minister Francisco (Mickky) Pacheco resigned from his post on Sunday. According to sources close to Mr Pacheco, the order to resign came from NCP president Sharad Pawar himself.

sixteen-year-old ship’s steward, Liam O’Connor, is about to die on board a sinking Titanic in 1912.
Eighteen-year-old computer geek Maddy Carter is about to die on a plane that is about to be blown out of the sky by terrorists in 2010.

One of my earliest monsoon memories as a young boy in Kolkata is of my school bag floating away in a waterlogged street as I stand chest deep in murky water contently nibbling at a bhutta (corn cob) j

On Saturday, May 15, a man returning from a wedding through the jungles near the village of Kerim in South Goa got the shock of his life when a tigress and her cub calmly stepped on to the road around