Even as poll-bound Goa celebrates its 20th anniversary of statehood on Thursday, the vexed issue of official language status to Konkani and treating Marathi on par with it still continues to invite ...

A poetry award has reopened the festering wound of caste and language divisions in Goa. At the heart of the row is Vishnu Surya Wagh, a 52-year-old former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA who has been ...

The late 80s Hindi movie Goonj, shot mostly in Goa and starring Kumar Gaurav and Juhi Chawla opens rather dramatically—with a Fiat blowing up even as the person who rigged it up as a car bomb is ...

Goa governor P S Sreedharan Pillai on Wednesday said that the mother tongue is the best language for a person that will help him or her prosper in life. The governor visited Sattari as part of ...

Sardesai, who is also the president of Goa Forward Party an ally of Manohar Parrikar-led BJP government, said Goa was not just for tourists. "If there is no announcement in Konkani when a flight lands ...

The decision motivated by the political compulsions of the Congress party which cannot afford to alienate the minority vote and its influential Catholic politicians from South Goa, has also given the ...

When Fausto V DaCosta, editor of ‘Gulab’, one of the last Romi Konkani monthly magazines published out of Goa, goes on his distribution rounds through the countryside, there’s a thought that sometimes ...

Mumbai: Language politics is brewing in Goa, stirred by the former state chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) assembling an anti-government platform ahead of assembly elections in early 2017.

Panaji, Dec 1 (IANS) A pro-regional languages outfit mentored by rebel RSS leader Subhash Velingkar on Thursday accused Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar of attacking the federal structure of ...

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