"I did not want to trouble Parrikar with a phone call, because I was watching his political trajectory rise phenomenally. But I knew that it would not be possible to complete those conversations with him, when cancer gripped him."
March 17, 2021Trials for introducing air-conditioned jackets for the Indian Special Forces soldiers are on, former Defence Minister and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has said. “In a Special Forces operation, there is extensive exercise. Body heats up, he (soldier) is very uncomfortable. At that time if he has an air conditioned jacket, he is more comfortable....
August 20, 2017Sarcastic songs, fashioned after RJ Malishka’s now viral “Sonu song”, appear to have taken centrestage in the Panaji by-poll campaign, where Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is trying to book a passage to the state assembly. Parrikar, who was the country’s Defence Minister for three years before returning to state politics in March after the elections,...
August 15, 2017A question put by a media person soon after Army's surgical strikes in Myanmar in 2015 eventually paved the way for subsequent strikes across the LoC in 2016, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday. "The Army was instructed to be prepared for surgical strikes on the western border, a day after surgical strikes...
June 3, 2017The tussle for government formation in Goa on Monday reached the Supreme Court, with the state Congress legislative party leader challenging the invitation extended by Goa Governor Mridula Sinha on Sunday to BJP leader Manohar Parrikar to form government. All India Congress Committee (AICC) Secretary Girish Chodankar told IANS late on Monday that Chief Justice...
March 13, 2017Overruling claims of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar that his election speech in Goa made in Konkani was incorrectly translated, the Election Commission today served him with a fresh notice on his reported bribery remarks and asked him to respond by Thursday. In its latest notice to the senior BJP leader, the Commission said the "CD...
February 7, 2017