Tiny Goa

Funds, or the lack of it, has proved to be a major stumbling block for the Council of Boards of Secondary Education’s (COBSE) pilot project in Goa for universalization of secondary education.

Bengal’s wounded pride will be up against Goa’s potency in first semifinal of the Santosh Trophy at the Salt Lake Stadium on Friday.

National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the 2009 Goa blast, has taken custody of Sanatan Sanstha member Prashant Juvekar for allegedly conspiring to carry out the Diwali-eve bombing.

The directorate of health will organize a state-level inter-college street play competition on the theme ‘Save the girl child’ as part of the implementation of the ‘pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic technique Act’.

Utkarsha Parab may have been fed a pink-coloured liquid, which the police suspect to be poison, on the evening she was kidnapped by her aunt Snehal Gaonkar.

Spiritual soul-searching Japanese Buddhists may soon join the mosaic of colours, cultures and languages that dress up the streets of coastal Goa from the 2011-12 tourism season onwards.

The ad hoc panel on finance of the Goa assembly has rapped the government for its failure to curb unnecessary expenditure, citing it as the main reason for the steep increase of the state debt from Rs 5,84,844.20 lakh to Rs 6,51,142.93 lakh in 2008-09 and subsequently to Rs 7,12,341.50 lakh in 2009-10.

An absconding member of right-wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha has been arrested by Maharashtra ATS for his alleged role in the 2009 Goa blast – the sixth person to be held in the case.

Panaji: The mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling told a local court on Monday that Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik and his son, Roy had links to the drug mafia operating in the state.

Kadamba Transport Corporation has estimated the social cost of providing concessions on ticket fare to various categories of passengers including senior citizens to the tune of Rs 14 lakh.

The family of Raveena Rodrigues, a 16-year-old girl who died in Goa Medical College and hospital on July 29, a fortnight after she was admitted in a private hospital, has sought the help of an NGO to help them in the case.

At night during the annual monsoon rains, hundreds of tropical villages in rural Goa come alive with the cacophony of croaking bullfrogs calling for mates after months in hibernation.