Goa education minister Atanasio Monserrate has moved the Bombay high court seeking transfer of probe in the 2008 Panaji police station attack case to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) from the CBI.

As many as 240 people, including top politicians, policemen, mine owners and businessmen, have been granted arms licences in Goa over the last three years, the state assembly has been informed.

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Former Goa sports minister Francisco Silveira on Friday told the state assembly that he received an SMS, which allegedly originated in Pakistan, and it detailed how Sahid Afridi's team would crumble a

As per the provisional figures trickling out from the Census 2011, for the first time in the last decade, females have outnumbered males in Goa which has recorded a 8.17 per cent growth in overall

A British woman was allegedly molested by a taxi driver at Candolim near here, police said on Friday.

The incident took place yesterday when accused Umesh Dhargalkar molested her in the lobby of a h

Goa might have to face a "Japan-sized" calamity if rampant illegal mining in the state is not curbed, a spokesperson for the NGO Bharat Swabhiman Trust (BST) said on Monday. The organisation, led by yoga guru Swami Ramdev, had zeroed in on illegal mining as one of the most critical issues concerning Goa, president of the group Bharat Ghullanawar told a press conference here.

An 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped at Goa's Colva beach by a 20-year-old man, the police said on Wednesday.
The Police said the girl was waiting for a bus near Colva beach - 40 km from here - with her elder sister, also a minor, on Tuesday night when the accused offered them sweets. He then took them to the beach and raped the 11-year-old girl behind a bush.

Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Thursday said here that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram should accept the moral responsibility for appointment of P.J. Thomas as central vigilance commissioner, which has been set aside by the Supreme Court.

Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi and Bollywood actress Lara Dutta exchanged wedding vows in Victorian style at the sunset point of the erstwhile Portuguese fort of Aguada near here on Saturday.

It seems that the Goa police is worried that the upcoming Rohan Sippy film, Dum Maro Dum, which portrays Goa’s criminal underbelly, might be too close to the truth.