Parrikar plans ‘Home for the aged’- Cows, now!
Home for the aged Cows?! – A new development during Question Hour of the Goa Parliamentary session on 25/7/17. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in reply to a question by Congress MLA, Pratapsing Rane, said that the State Government would come up with a scheme to rehabilitate old cows till death. Former chief minister, Pratapsinh Rane […]
Will Goa boil over beef?
First there was Sadhvi Saraswati’s remarks that beef eaters should be hung, then was Goa Transport Minister and MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar’s statement that his party will not keep quiet if cows are harmed. After that there were a series of attacks and killings of “beef eaters” across the country, before Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
Beef bandh! Goa braces for shortage
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on April 16, earlier this year said that they will impose a total ban on cow slaughter and consumption of beef in Goa in less than two years, without the government’s help. However, it seems that they have almost achieved their goal, in less than two months, albeit thanks to the Central […]
VHP: “We will not allow cow slaughter or allow anyone to eat beef in Goa”
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has said that they will stop cow slaughter and consumption of beef in Goa. The organisation has claimed that they are capable of imposing a ban in the state without the support from the government. “Like elsewhere in the country, in Goa, too, we are awakening people against cow slaughter and […]
Dubai bans Goan food ?
News that will be heartbreaking to several Goans in Dubai… information on Dubai banning Goan food…is going viral after the Consul General of India in Dubai published detailed guidelines on banned items on its website, citing Dubai Customs as a source. Often, people travelling from India to the UAE carry with them medicines and cooked […]
Beef Ban? Not in Goa at least!
“Beef in the barn, beef in the fields, beef on the streets but no beef to eat” Beef Ban?!#@$% But ‘no ban in Goa’, says Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar Although BJP governments in other states have banned slaughter and sale, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar in a statement to the Indian Express, in March 2015, […]
