On December 19, 2025, after 451 years of Portuguese rule, Goa achieved independence. It was a culmination of decades of resistance, diplomacy and military action. Following India's Independence, ...

As Lorraine Alberto begins her Portuguese class at Goa University, students from the former colony are in short supply. Across Goa, a tiny coastal state once administered by Lisbon, there is little ...

Panaji: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Wednesday set aside an order passed by the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Panaji, rejecting the petitioner’s ...

Goa's beautiful coastline has been attracting visitors since the 1960s. But in the last five years, the number of tourists coming to the holiday destination has almost tripled. India's smallest state ...

COMMENTARY: With the creation of Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão, there will be five Indian cardinal electors, a sign of the rising importance of the Church in India. Pope ...

Indians must have loved the gods: they made so many of them. Shanta Durga is a ten-handed goddess revered by the 400,000 Hindus in the former Portuguese enclave of Goa. Bhaväni is a ten-handed goddess ...