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| elhiwala’ Malawi president arriving on six-day visit Posted: 01 Nov 2010 08:45 AM PDT
Mutharika will arrive Tuesday with a high-level delegation and hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday, after which a number of agreements are expected to be signed. President Pratibha Patil will hold a formal state banquet in his honour Wednesday evening. He will also have an interaction with top Indian businessmen at a luncheon Wednesday. The visit comes after Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari had gone to Malawi in January this year. In his speech at the banquet in honour of Ansari, Mutharika had described himself as a "product of India" and described himself as a "Delhiwala". He had completed his graduation and masters degree from Delhi University in the 1960s. The Delhi School of Economics will be conferring an honorary doctorate on the visiting Malawi president. Besides Delhi, Mutharika will also be travelling to the tourist hotspots of Agra and Goa. He will leave India Nov 8 early morning. Courtesy:T |
| Will resign if found guilty of buying agri-land: Goa minister Posted: 31 Oct 2010 10:04 AM PDT Goa education minister Atanasio Monserratte today offered to resign as MLA if he was found guilty of buying agricultural land for non-agriculture purpose in Taleigao constituency. “Let one fellow prove that I bought one square metre of land and converted it,” Monserratte, representing Taleigao, told a gathering today. he minister made the comments during a gram-sabha meeting when few villagers asked him to stop the uncontrolled conversion of paddy fields for the construction of civil projects. “If some farmer is selling his field, then I can’t stop him. It is his right to do so,” he said adding that the elected representative could not be blamed for that. The minister said he himself did not want the traditional fields to be lost to development. “I can show you an instance in which I have reconverted the field back to green zone from commercial zone to save it from being used for constructing buildings,” he said. Monserratte in the past had to resign as minister after he was accused of drafting a regional plan, which had threatened to rob greenery of the state. He was re-inducted into the cabinet after a gap of two years. The villagers from Taleigao, a locality dotting Panaji city, during the gram sabha meeting this morning expressed their apprehension over the development, which was taking toll on the paddy fields of the area. “Taleigao was called as a rice bowl of Goa due to cultivation that was happening here. We have seen that many fields are filled to make way for residential complexes,” Anand Madgaoncar, a local resident, told the gram sabha. Courtesy:DNA |
who has spent many years as a student in Delhi and describes himself as a "Delhiwala", will be arriving here Tuesday on a six-day visit.| You are subscribed to email updates from Goa Blog To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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