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North Goa (Lok Sabha Constituency)
North Goa Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Panaji Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the two Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Goa state in western India along with South Goa. Assembly Segments Presently, North Goa Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency comprises 20 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies: Members of Parliament * From Panjim constituency: * From Panaji constituency: * From North Goa constituency: Election results 2024 2019 general election 2014 general election ''Times of India''. 19 aspirants in Goa, but only two seats to Delhi' 2009 general election As Panaji Constituency 2004 general election References See also * North Goa district * List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each MP, represents a single geographic constituency. There are currently 543 const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandrem (Goa Assembly Constituency)
Mandrem Assembly constituency is one of the 40 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Goa state in India. Mandrem is also one of the 20 constituencies falling under the North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is part of North Goa district. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2022 candidate 2019 result 2017 result 2012 result See also * List of constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly * North Goa district North Goa district is one of the two districts that constitutes the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of , and is bounded by Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgavi district of Karnataka ... References External links * {{coord, 15.66, 73.74, display=title North Goa district Assembly constituencies of Goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priol (Goa Assembly Constituency)
Priol Assembly constituency is one of the 40 Goa Legislative Assembly constituencies of the state of Goa in southern India. Priol is also one of the 20 constituencies falling under the North Goa (Lok Sabha constituency), North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. Members of Legislative Assembly Priol constituency was formed, in 1984 from some areas of Ponda and Marcaim constituencies after Goa attained Statehood. Election results 2022 election 2017 See also * List of constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly * North Goa district References External link * {{coord, 15.43, 74, display=title North Goa district Assembly constituencies of Goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua D'Souza
Joshua Peter De Souza (born 12 November 1988) is an Indian politician residing in Mapusa, Goa, and was elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly in the by-election in 2019 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. On 22nd July 2022 he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly with a majority of 24-12 votes against Siolim Congress MLA Delilah Lobo. Currently, he is the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Mapusa Constituency, National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janta Party Minority Morcha, the Vice Chairman of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) and the Chairman of Mormugao Planning and Development Authority (MPDA). Besides that, he is also a social worker and entrepreneur. Family background D'Souza is the son of former Deputy Chief Minister of Goa Adv. Francis D'Souza who previously served the people of Mapusa as a Councillor (1985-2000), Mayor (1998-2000), and Member of the Legislative Assembly(1999-2019). His humility, fondness, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilkanth Halarnkar
Nilkanth Halarnkar is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly from Tivim in the 2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Nationalist Congress Party and 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was one of the ten members of Indian National Congress who joined Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ... in July 2019. References Goa MLAs 2022–2027 Living people Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Goa Former members of Indian National Congress from Goa People from South Goa district Goa MLAs 2017–2022 Year of birth missing (living people) Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Goa Goa MLAs 2007–2012 {{Goa-INC-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Goa District
North Goa district is one of the two districts that constitutes the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of , and is bounded by Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgavi district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west. Historical background At the advent of the Portuguese in AD 1510, all of today's northern territories (Ilhas, Bardez, Pernem, Bicholim, Antruz, and Sattari) were part of the Bijapur Sultanate. Ilhas and Bardez were annexed by Portugal after their successful conquest and the region is now called ''Velhas Conquistas'' (Old Conquests). After the fall of the Deccan sultanates and rise of the Marathas in the late 1600s, the remaining region eventually fell under the control of the Maratha Kingdom of Sawantwadi until AD 1783. These territories were seen as safe haven for the Hindus, Muslims and new-Christians who fled the Portuguese Inquisition taking place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adivasi
The Adivasi refers to inhabitants of Indian subcontinent, generally tribal people. The term is a Sanskrit word coined in the 1930s by political activists to give the tribal people an indigenous identity by claiming an indigenous origin. The term is also used for ethnic minorities, such as Chakmas of Bangladesh, Khas of Nepal, and Vedda of Sri Lanka. The Constitution of India does not use the word ''Adivasi'', instead referring to Scheduled Tribes and Janjati. The government of India does not officially recognise tribes as indigenous people. The country ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 107 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the United Nations (1957) and refused to sign the ILO Convention 169. Most of these groups are included in the Scheduled Tribe category under constitutional provisions in India. They comprise a substantial minority population of India and Bangladesh, making up 8.6% of India's population and 1.1% of Bangladesh's, or 104.2&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalit
Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the Caste system in India, castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold Varna (Hinduism), varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a avarna, fifth varna, also known by the name of ''Panchama''. Dalits now profess various religious beliefs, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam. Scheduled Castes is the official term for Dalits as per the Constitution of India. History The term ''Dalit'' is a self-applied concept for those called the "untouchables" and others that were outside of the traditional Hindu caste hierarchy. Economist and reformer B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) said that untouchability came into Indian society around 400 CE, due to the struggle for supremacy between Buddhism and Historical Vedic religion, Brahmanism (an ancient term for Brahmanical Hinduism). Some Hindu priests befriended untouchables ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidhan Sabha
The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, or also Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in the states and union territories of India. In the 28 states and 3 union territories with a unicameral state legislature, it is the sole legislative body and in 6 states it is the lower house of their bicameral state legislatures with the upper house being State Legislative Council. 5 union territories are governed directly by the Union Government of India and have no legislative body. Each Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is directly elected to serve 5-year terms by single-member constituencies. The Constitution of India states that a State Legislative Assembly must have no less than 60 and no more than 500 members however an exception may be granted via an Act of Parliament as is the case in the states of Goa, Sikkim, Mizoram and the union territory of Puducherry which have fewer than 60 members. A State Legislative Assembly may be dissolved in a state of emergency, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Goa (Lok Sabha Constituency)
South Goa Lok Sabha constituency (Mormugao prior to 2008) is one of two Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Goa in western India along with North Goa. Assembly segments Presently, South Goa Lok Sabha constituency comprises 20 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are: Members of Parliament ^ by poll Election results 2024 2019 2014 2009 See also * South Goa district * List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each MP, represents a single geographic constituency. There are currently 543 constituencies while maximum seats will fill up to 550 (after ar ... Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:South Goa (Lok Sabha Constituency) Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa Politics of Goa South Goa district Vasco da Gama, Goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan, New Delhi. The maximum membership of the House allotted by the Constitution of India is 552 (Initially, in 1950, it was 500). Currently, the house has 543 seats which are made up by the election of up to 543 elected members and at a maximum. Between 1952 and 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were also nominated by the President of India on the advice of Government of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravi S
Ravi may refer to: People * Ravi (name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Ravi (composer) (1926–2012), Indian music director * Ravi (Ivar Johansen) (born 1976), Norwegian musical artist * Ravi (music director) (1926–2012), an Indian film music director * Ravi (rapper) (born 1993), a South Korean rapper * Ravi, an actor in the 2018 film ''Dhwaja'' Other * Ravi, Gavorrano, a village in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany * Ravi River, a Himalayan river flowing through India and Pakistan * Ravi Town, a town near Lahore, Pakistan * An alternative name for Surya, the Sanskrit word for the Sun and the Hindu solar deity * Ravi, a fictional state in ''The Ravi Lancers'', a novel by John Masters See also * * Rabi (other) Rabi may refer to: Places * Rábí, a castle in the Czech Republic * Rabí, a village in the Czech Republic * Räbi, a village in Estonia * Rabi, Panchthar, a village development committee in Nepal * Rabi Island, a volcanic island in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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