The Latest Breaking News from Aires Rodrigues

Activist whose RTI flagged ‘Smriti Irani-linked Goa cafe’ alleges home ministry ‘witch-hunt’

A Goa-based activist has alleged that he is being targeted for taking up public interest issues against “successive governments” and for trying to point to alleged illegalities surrounding BJP leader and former minister Smriti Irani’s daughter’s cafe in Goa through RTI applications. 

Newslaundry · Aug 12, 2024

Firm linked to Smriti Irani’s family paid rent for cafe ‘run by her daughter’

BJP minister Smriti Irani has repeatedly denied any association with the Silly Souls café and bar in Goa, alleged to have been run by her daughter Zoish Irani. But government records obtained under the RTI Act indicate a company linked to Irani’s family took the plot on a 10-year lease…

Newslaundry · Sep 8, 2022

Town and country planning department will handle the Goa bar complaint professionally, says Vishwajit Rane

Activist Aires Rodrigues had filed a complaint about the alleged violation of the rules against “Silly Soul Café and Bar” located in North Goa with the TCP department.

The Hindu · Aug 2, 2022