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Goa Governor Mridula Sinha urged the students not to fall into the prey of drug addiction or allow anyone to get addicted and not to send his or her parents to old age homes. (Photo: PTI)

Don't call off marriages over trivial issues, says Goa Governor to...

Goa Governor Mridula Sinha administered the pledge during her address at the 30th annual convocation of Goa University.

7 July 2018 8:55 PM IST

Mr Raghava Reddy in his petition stated when the woman was raped and murdered, he came forward as the witness and gave a statement against the accused. (Representational Image)

Taxi driver drags, rapes 20-year-old near Goa airport, police nab...

The accused dragged the victim into the car and took her to a secluded area before sexually assaulting her.

29 Jun 2018 4:18 PM IST

Suddenly, the two boys jumped into the well even before Charantimath asked them to enter the well. When he saw them drowning, he jumped to rescue them. But all the three drowned. (Representational Image)

Goa identifies 24 'no selfie' zones along coast to halt drowning...

There have been several incidents of drowning while taking selfies near the coast in recent times.

23 Jun 2018 2:11 PM IST

Took advantage of her disability and used to rape her while her parents were away at work. (Representational Image)

Goa police constable, minor arrested for raping 17-yr-old girl

The Goa police constable, on the pretext of taking the victim home, took her to Ponda and raped her, an official said.

18 Jun 2018 10:15 AM IST

Parrikar chaired a meeting of senior bureaucrats and police officers to take stock of the law and order situation in Goa. (Photo: ANI/

Day after return from US, Goa CM Manohar Parrikar resumes official...

Manohar Parrikar was in the US for almost 3 months and underwent treatment for pancreatic ailment.

15 Jun 2018 3:38 PM IST

The seizure of the drug Ketamine, valued at Rs 2.37 crore from a Hyderabadi passenger, at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, by customs officials early this week, was just the tip of the iceberg.

308 kg ketamine seized from 3 states, 10 including foreign nationals...

Ketamine is an anaesthetic agent that it often misused as a recreational party drug to have a 'hallucinogenic high'.

14 Jun 2018 6:26 PM IST

Considered as the party loyalist, Naik was elected as the member of Lok Sabha in the 1984 General Election. (Photo: PTI)

Ex Goa Congress Chief Shantaram Naik dies of heart attack at 72

Naik, 72, was taken to private hospital in Margao town from his residence after he complained of uneasiness where he was...

9 Jun 2018 9:05 AM IST

The Archbishop has called upon the people to strive to know the Constitution and to protect it with values like secularism, freedom of speech and freedom to practise ones religion. (Photo: ANI)

Constitution in danger, people living in insecurity: Goa Archbishop

'Human rights are under attack and democracy appears to be in peril,' says Archbishop of Goa and Daman.

5 Jun 2018 1:36 PM IST

Pandurang Madkaikar is the BJP legislator from Cumbharjua constituency in North Goa district. (Photo: ANI)

Goa minister suffers heart attack in Mumbai; hospitalised

Madkaikar, 53, was in Mumbai on Monday for a visit when he fell ill. He was admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani...

5 Jun 2018 11:17 AM IST

The amendment enables appointment of a retired chief justice of the High Court as Lokayukta and a retired judge of the High Court as Upa Lokayukta, as against sitting judges previously.

9 tourists sent in judicial remand for molesting, assaulting minor...

The victims - 17-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister - were on May 29 sitting in a shack at the Baga beach in North...

31 May 2018 4:42 PM IST

The deadly Nipah virus has so far claimed 10 lived in Kerala. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Kerala man with symptoms of Nipah under observation in Goa hospital

Blood samples of the patient were sent for testing to the National Institute of Virology in Pune.

29 May 2018 10:10 AM IST

We have sent her for medical examination and deputed teams to arrest him. The investigation will proceed based on the evidence,â€ officials said. (Representational Image)

3 arrested for raping woman in front of her boyfriend at south Goa...

The incident took place on Thursday night at Sernabhatim beach, when the victim and her boyfriend were returning home in...

26 May 2018 1:48 PM IST