Six children were among seven persons killed on Saturday when a school bus plunged into the Kalvi River at Aldona village, 30 kms from Panaji.
The GST Council also decided that a committee of officers will be constituted to examine the simplification of forms for annual return and reconciliation statement.
Nilesh Bagkar was out on his morning walk on Wednesda, when he spotted a crocodile on Goa's Morjim beach.
A day after the name of Goa-based fashion designer Wendell Rodricks was announced for Padma Shri Award, the local Bharatiya Janata Party unit claimed that the award may legitimise homosexuality, though it also congratulated him.
In the tribal village of Cauvrem in South Goa, people now meet more often to decide their strategy against mining trucks, which are operating illegally in the locality resulting in destruction of paddy and chilly cultivation.
Bharatiya Janta Party President Nitin Gadkari on Friday claimed that the Congress would have dealt with Anna Hazare's fast at Ramlila Maidan the same way it dealt with Baba Ramdev's fast, had the main opposition party not declared support to Hazare.
The FIFA Under-17 World Cup Trophy arrived in Goa -- the land of beaches -- on Friday after mesmerising Mumbai last week.
Sreesanth disapproves of remarks made by Hardik, Rahul
The chief minister has been in the US for treatment of a pancreatic ailment since March this year.
Goan heavyweights Churchill Brothers will set up a football academy at Cana Bednaulim near Panaji in association with former Liverpool midfielder-turned- commentator Steve McMohan.
The culling of key state leaders and bureaucrats has given rise to distrust and uneasiness in Pramod Sawant's style of functioning, notes Aditi Phadnis.
The discussions on the new Goa CM came to a halt after Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party MLA Sudin Dhavalikar wanted to be the chief minister.
Sesa Football Academy signed former English Premier League (EPL) player Terry Phelan as their chief mentor at an event in Panaji.
In the 2012 assembly elections, Goa had recorded an impressive 81.8 per cent voting.
The lady investigating officer in the sexual assault case against journalist Tarun Tejpal has filed a complaint that he had threatened her during the probe.
'Like any other person who may not occupy public office has a right to not disclose his health problems to the public'
It was the first-ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew, the Navy said.
The Karmapa, in the eye of a controversy over huge haul of foreign currency from his transit home, on Monday got the backing of the Dalai Lama, who said the issue cropped up due to the carelessness of some of his aides.
India's first teaching programme in Citizen Journalism, a certificate course launched by the JM Foundation for Excellence in Journalism, will be held in Goa from November 12 to November 14, 2010.
Closing in on Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal, who failed to get any immediate relief on his anticipatory bail petition in the Delhi high court, the Goa police summoned him to appear before it by 3 pm on Thursday in the probe into the sexual assault allegation against him.
Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde, a member of the joint drafting committee on the Lokpal Bill, on Monday said that he would not like to continue in his chair after the expiry of his five-year term in August.
The 46-year-old Nationalist Congress Party lawmaker arrived at CBI's office in Bambolim village near Panaji after he was summoned by the central agency. However, there was no official word on whether he was detained or not.
Goa Police has registered an FIR against several persons, including government officers who were allegedly involved in clearing the controversial five-storey project comprising 80 flats.
Is the Union government responsible for it (Dalit atrocities)? Is the party (BJP) responsible for it?," Ahir asked.
Gandhi walked into Goa Chitra, in South Goa's Benaulim village, about 40 kilometre from Panaji, on Monday evening around 4 pmand spent around 40 minutes there, founder of the museum, Victor Hugo Gomes said.
We want to make a non-BJP political front in this country, Raut said.
The National Investigation Agency on Monday filed a charge-sheet against 11 persons from the right-wing Hindu outfit 'Sanatan Sanstha' in connection with the Goa blast that killed two persons. Those chargesheeted include Malgonda Patil and Yogesh Naik, who were killed when the bomb went off accidentally at Margao, about 35 km from Panaji, before it could be planted. The charges included criminal conspiracy.
In their first-ever visit to Sanatan Sanstha after taking over the Margao blast case, National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials on Saturday questioned its managing trustee at its Ramnathi ashram, around 30 kms from Panaji.
Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat said on Sunday that he was yet to receive any proposal from state home ministry on ban on Sanatan Sanstha, a right wing Hindu organisation, under scanner for its alleged role in Margao blast.
Rs 7 lakh crore will be invested to develop for over 80,000 km of highways including Bharatmala project in the next five years
Jayant Athavale, chief of Sanatan Sanstha, was quizzed oN Saturday by sleuths of the Central agency at his residence in Ramnathi Ashram, 30km from Panaji. "An NIA team quizzed Sanatan Sanstha's founder Dr Jayant Athavale in his residential quarters," Sanatan Prabhat, the outfit's mouthpiece claimed on Sunday.
A former self-defence trainer with right-wing Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha was arrested in connection with Margao bomb blast conspiracy by Special Investigation Team (SIT), police said on Wednesday.
"Goa is currently being run through remote control. Whatever Modi wants, happens in Goa," he said.
Defence Minister A K Antony said on Wednesday that Pakistan had 42 terror camps within its territory and that the neighbouring country was not taking effective steps to dismantle the terror outfits.
The Goa police on Monday made the first arrest in the Margao blasts, in which two persons were killed, when a man with alleged links to a Hindu right-wing group 'Sanatan Sanstha' was detained and searches were carried out at the outfit's office.The two victims, who were killed in the blast, were activists of the Sanstha. The police had earlier detained five members of the that which has recently come under the scanner of security agencies.
Salvador do Mundo village panchayat passed a resolution recently banning kissing in public along with consumption of liquor and playing loud music openly.
John, who surrendered before the Crime Branch on Wednesday after absconding for almost a month, was produced before the Judicial Magistrate Margao who remanded him in police custody, a police officer said.
Goa politician John Fernandes, accused of raping a Russian girl on Colva Beach on December 1, on Wednesday surrendered before the Crime Branch in Panaji, almost a month after he went missing. Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Salgaoncar told reporters that John has been placed under arrest and he will be questioned to get further evidence in the case. The accused will be charged with destroying evidence.
Former Goa tourism minister Micky Pacheco was on Monday granted bail by a local court in connection with the Nadia Torrado death case.Margao District and Sessions Judge B P Deshpande granted bail to Pacheco, who was admitted to a hospital in Panaji on Sunday evening after he complained of chest pain, on a Rs 25,000 bond and surety of an equal amount.
'Parrikar is living for Modi and Shah, not for his motherland or Goa'
