Tejpal, former Tehelka editor-in-chief, was accused of sexually assaulting the colleague inside the elevator of a luxury hotel in Goa in 2013.
If proven guilty, Tejpal can be sentenced for more than seven years of imprisonment on these charges.
Rescuers said 15 more people are still trapped in the debris.
Parrikar said he received Gandhi's visit in the spirit of India's healthy political tradition of rising above bipartisan considerations and wishing even opponents a quick recovery from any ailment.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh and the party's senior leader Narendra Modi dodged all questions about the latter's possible projection as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, after they arrived for the party's national executive meeting in Panaji on Friday.
Hilton opened the show with the popular Korean number Gangnam Style and left her fans asking for more.
A day after the Goa police arrested six persons, including a Uttar Pradesh Member of Legislative Assembly, during a raid at a dance bar here, investigations have revealed that the accused brought the girls to the state on their trip and even stayed with them in a hotel.
Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal was arrested by the Goa police shortly after he arrived at Panaji airport on Friday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman colleague by him.
State's tourism minister assures support to the very popular music festival, though the organisers must scout for a new venue.
As people in drought-hit parts of Maharashtra face livelihood challenges, concerns have been raised over the possibility of girls from these areas being allegedly trafficked to Goa for flesh trade, according to a prominent NGO in Panaji.
Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch L K Advani's absence in Panaji on Friday cast a shadow on the national executive meeting beginning on Saturday raising doubts whether the party would go ahead with its plans to announce Narendra Modi as head of the campaign committee for the Lok Sabha elections.
In a video message, Parrikar, 62, appealed people to continue praying for his health.
Several political leaders were photographed celebrating raksha bandhan, some of them with students and small children.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday held discussions with office bearers in Goa, during his first ever visit to the state after his party faced humiliating defeat in the assembly elections early this year.
'The projects that the government started to bring within Goa were totally anti-Goa and anti-people.' 'Can anyone describe a project as development when it is going to cause wanton destruction of people's houses, their surroundings and livelihoods and destruction of forests?'
From the two murder accused he shared his room with on his first night in police lock-up, arrested Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal had four local men, held on charges of poaching, as his cell mates on the second night.
'Art Deco was the last of the truly international styles.'
Ahead of the party's National Executive in Panaji, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said there was no pro-Modi or pro- Advani faction in the party. "There is no pro or anti Modi or Advani factions. There are no differences in the party on either of the leaders," said BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi.
'If you weed out corruption, you will bring glory to Goa.'
Vinod Mascarenhas (37), working as a gardener, was arrested by police at Ponda, about 20 kms from Panaji, on Wednesday after the victim's parents lodged a complaint.
Goa government on Friday told the legislative assembly that the Research and Analysis wing has been informed about the terror message, allegedly originating from Spain, which threatened to blow up Panaji and the coastal belt.
A local court in Panaji sent the headmistress of a Goa school, where a seven-year-old girl was raped, to police custody for seven days.
The second-grade student was sexually abused in the school toilet next to the office of the headmistress during recess on Monday by an unidentified person, police said on Tuesday.
The names of two veterans -- Health Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and Speaker of Legislative Assembly Rajendra Arlekar -- are being considered for the top post in case Parrikar moves to Delhi.
The Russian consulate on Friday rubbished the often-repeated claims about existence of Russian mafia in Goa and its investments in the state's lucrative tourism industry.
Headmistress of a school run by the Mormugao Port Trust in Vasco town of Goa was arrested on Sunday for negligence in connection with the rape of a seven-year-old girl on the school premises, police said.
Isolated heavy rainfall is also very likely over north Konkan region during the same period, it said.
A teenage girl, who tried to commit suicide here after the man accused of raping her got bail, succumbed to her injuries on Friday after remaining four days in critical condition, hospital officials said.
After a minor rape victim tried to commit suicide in Panaji on Tuesday, the Goa government moved the high court seeking to cancel the bail granted to the girl's teacher, who had allegedly raped her.
Technocrat-turned-politician, Manohar Parrikar, set to become Goa chief minister for the third time, is known for his clean image, blunt talk and development initiatives.
The group, led by Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar, met Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar in the evening and gave him a letter, informing him about their breaking away from the party.
Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and all Congress members in his cabinet figure in the party's first list of 22 candidates for the March 3 assembly polls, which was announced in Panaji on Saturday. The list contains two new faces, but the party has sprung a surprise by denying a ticket to Victoria Fernandes, the Congress' lone woman legislator. Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Subhash Shirodkar said the second and final list of 11 nominees will be announced on Sunday
Ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party will be organising two separate yatras led by its veteran leaders from October 13 to mobilise voters in the region.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday claimed that his party was the front-runner in the elections in five states, including Goa.
The Goa police on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly raping and murdering a four-year-old girl in Quepem town, 80 km away from Panaji. The victim, who hails from Kurla in Mumbai, was on a vacation in Goa at her grandparent's place in Quepem. While the incident happened on Sunday, her body was recovered from an under-construction building in the town on Tuesday.
Goa's Ranji team interim captain Swapnil Asnodkar could find himself in deep trouble following deposition by a fellow-player before the Goa Cricket Association, claiming that he had hinted at calling off the match against Maharashtra, at Porvorim, near Panaji, during the fourth over itself.
Months after the Karnataka's illegal mining scam exposed its politicians -- former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and the Bellary brothers -- G Janardhana Reddy, Karunakarana Reddy and Somasekehar Reddy -- a similar scandal is unfolding in Goa. The Goa scam has thrown open a can of worms and various reports suggest that the nexus between the two.
Noted cartoonist Mario Miranda passed away on Sunday at his residence near Panaji, sources close to his family said. He was 85.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manohar Parrikar is all set to become the chief minister of Goa for the third time after the BJP-MGP combine on Wednesday staked its claim to form the government with the support of 26 legislators and the swearing -in will be held on Friday.
