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Goa CM Urges Citizens To Promote Local Businesses This Diwali

Goa CM Urges Citizens To Promote Local Businesses This Diwali

The Chief Minister said that he himself has put up a lantern made of coconut tree leaves, which was gifted to him by students of a school in Loliem village in South Goa, at his official residence in Panaji.

22 October 2022

Sonali Phogat Death: Goa Minister Says Everything Happening In State Shouldn't Be Linked To Tourism

Sonali Phogat Death: Goa Minister Says Everything Happening In State Shouldn't Be Linked To Tourism

Phogat (43), a former Tik Tok star and contestant on the reality TV show “Big Boss", died in Goa last month. The state police have arrested five people and booked two of them on charges of murder. 

08 September 2022

Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat

Goa Police Team In Haryana To Conduct Probe In Sonali Phogat Case

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said his government has submitted a "confidential report" on the investigation into the case to Haryana chief minister and director general of police.

31 August 2022

Dabolim Airport Will Not Shut After Commissioning Of Mopa Airport, Says Goa CM

Dabolim Airport Will Not Shut After Commissioning Of Mopa Airport, Says Goa CM

Earlier Goa Forward Party leaders had claimed the Dabolim facility would be shut, their statements based on a reported remark by state transport minister Mauvin Godinho that the airport may face closure if taxi operators...

13 October 2022

Verse And Valour: A Bahujan Poet’s Lonely Fight With Goa’s Influential GSB Community

Former BJP MLA Vishnu Wagh’s 'Sudhirsukta' challenged and lyrically raged against the overwhe­lming social dominance of Goa’s inf­luential Goud Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) caste. Wagh belonged to the Bahujan Samaj, a...

02 September 2022

Goa CM Pramod Sawant in Mumbai

Sonali Phogat Case Probe Report Submitted To Haryana Government: Goa CM Sawant

Phogat (43), a former Tik Tok star from Hisar in Haryana and a contestant on the reality TV show "Big Boss", was brought dead to a hospital in North Goa on August 23, a day after arriving in the coastal state with two of her...

30 August 2022

Goa And The Story Of Never-ending Political Musical Chairs

Goa’s reputation as a hard partying destination is matched only by party-hopping of its politicians

14 September 2022

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We Are The Whipping Boys Now: Sanatan Sanstha National Spokesperson Chetan Rajhans

The Sanatan Sanstha has been in the dock over the controversial murders of rationalists and in the spotlight for bomb attacks in Maharashtra and Pune. But its national spokesperson, Chetan Rajhans, tells Outlook that the...

30 August 2022

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30 August 2022
What Drives Sanatan Sanstha, The Controversial Hindu Right-wing Organisation?

What Drives Sanatan Sanstha, The Controversial Hindu Right-wing Organisation?

Founded in 1990 by Dr Jayant Balaji Atavale, a hypnotherapist, the Sanatan Sanstha is registered as a charitable organisation. A few people linked to the...


30 August 2022
Konkani Sunrise: In Search Of The Soul Of Goa

Konkani Sunrise: In Search Of The Soul Of Goa

If Goa’s official language sustained despite an attempted colonial wipe-out, there’s hope that people will find a way to preserve their Goan-ness...


26 August 2022
Sonali Phogat Was Drugged By Accused Before Death: Goa Police

Sonali Phogat Was Drugged By Accused Before Death: Goa Police

Both the accused were seen mixing “some obnoxious chemical substance” in the liquid which was fed to her at the party at a restaurant in Anjuna, said...


26 August 2022
Accused In Sonali Phogat `Murder' Case Questioned

Accused In Sonali Phogat `Murder' Case Questioned

Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Wasi, whose names figure as accused in the First Information Report (FIR) for murder, have been detained but not arrested yet, he...


24 August 2022
Goa Police Conducting Detailed Probe Into Sonali Phogat's Death: CM Sawant

Goa Police Conducting Detailed Probe Into Sonali Phogat's Death: CM Sawant

Considering the opinion of doctors and Goa Director General of Police Jaspal Singh, it preliminary looks like she died due to a heart attack, Sawant told...


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17 August 2022
Goa Reports 200 New Covid-19 Cases, Zero Death; Active Tally At 877

Goa Reports 200 New Covid-19 Cases, Zero Death; Active Tally At 877

Goa's COVID-19 figures are as follows: Total cases 2,54,352; new cases 200; death toll 3,956; discharged 2,49,518; active cases 877; total tests 20,38,457.


10 August 2022
Goa Government To Felicitate Freedom Fighters On Thursday; CM Sawant To Lead 'Tiranga Yatra' On August 13

Goa Government To Felicitate Freedom Fighters On Thursday; CM Sawant To Lead 'Tiranga Yatra' On August 13

Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Sawant said felicitation of freedom fighters and the flag hoisting ceremony will be take place at Aguada Jail museum.  


26 June 2022
Goa Reports 112 COVID-19 Cases, 2 Deaths, 78 Recoveries

Goa Reports 112 COVID-19 Cases, 2 Deaths, 78 Recoveries

Goa's COVID-19 figures: Total cases 2,48,041, New cases 112, Death toll 3,835, Discharged 2,43,278, Active cases 928, Samples tested to date 19,76,222.


17 June 2022
Goa's Battle Against The Ills Of Global Warming And Indiscrete Concretisation

Goa's Battle Against The Ills Of Global Warming And Indiscrete Concretisation

By 2050, sea level rise is expected to inundate 40 per cent of Goa’s low-lying areas, ravaging the state’s popular beaches by draining the sand along its...


17 June 2022
The Green Corridors: Can Goa's Khazans Mitigate The Effects Of Climate Change?

The Green Corridors: Can Goa's Khazans Mitigate The Effects Of Climate Change?

As Goa faces climate change threats from rising sea levels and extreme tidal events, its age-old khazans could come to the rescue


17 June 2022
Drug Traffickers, Land Sharks And Other Lumpen Elements Now Rule The Roost In Goa

Drug Traffickers, Land Sharks And Other Lumpen Elements Now Rule The Roost In Goa

‘From the time I entered public life until now, I cannot seem to recognise the Goa I once knew’, says former Union minister Ramakant Khalap as he laments...


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17 June 2022
India’s Goa, Goa’s Portugal: Bonds Of History As Strong As Before

India’s Goa, Goa’s Portugal: Bonds Of History As Strong As Before

Goans continue to take advantage of Portuguese citizenship laws, as India hopes to strengthen its ties with the European Union via the Iberian country’s PM...


17 June 2022
Dum Maro Dum: A Bombay Goan Recollects Her First Brush With Goan Culture

Dum Maro Dum: A Bombay Goan Recollects Her First Brush With Goan Culture

Naked hippies on beach, ‘adult movies’ with U certificate -- what Goa was like in the swinging seventies through the naughty nineties


17 June 2022
Printing From The Margin Of Margins: Can Goa Retrieve Its Rich History In Publishing?

Printing From The Margin Of Margins: Can Goa Retrieve Its Rich History In Publishing?

Why books minus touristy cliches, voices from outside the metros, and inexpensive printing options in small states like Goa are the needs of the hour


17 June 2022
Syrena’s Elegy: Goa As An Allegory Of A Mermaid

Syrena’s Elegy: Goa As An Allegory Of A Mermaid

A tale of a sensuous mermaid through her blithe adolescence, meditative adulthood and grim old age—that's the story of Goa too


17 June 2022
A Story And A Recipe Frozen In Time, From The Idylls Of Goa's Khazans

A Story And A Recipe Frozen In Time, From The Idylls Of Goa's Khazans

Friendship, romance and a pint of urrack. A bitter-sweet story from the banks of River Zuari.


17 June 2022
Temple Run: Clash Of History And Faith Threatens Age-old Communal Harmony In Goa

Temple Run: Clash Of History And Faith Threatens Age-old Communal Harmony In Goa

For generations now, absence of consistent and rigorous public discourse about Goa’s colonial history had led to a tentatively harmonious co-existence of...


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