Goa

When Manohar Parrikar became CM of Goa a year ago, he inherited many problems. How has he fared so far? Snehal Rebello reports.

Away from air-conditioned malls and stores, a fledgling vegetable-based economy, scripted by farmers-turned-entrepreneurs, is booming alongside Goa's busy streets. Cheaper challenge

The state unit of BJP is in favour of naming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party's prime ministerial candidate, but is waiting for party leadership in Delhi to take a final call on the issue, a state BJP leader says.

A 26-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in a dramatic way by cutting his wrist, uploading his wounded pictures on a social networking website and then jumping into Zuari River from a bridge here, police said today.

The BJP-led government in Goa has filed an affidavit asking the Supreme Court to allow iron ore mining to resume and blaming its two predecessor regimes led by the Congress for the scam in the sector. The Apex Court had imposed a total ban on mining last October.

The Goa government is thinking of banning all fresh excavation of iron ore in the state, a top mining official has said in his affidavit filed before the Supreme Court of India.

The upcoming Delhi Assembly elections will be a litmus test for the Aam Aadmi Party, before the new political outfit sets its eyes on the rest of the country, AAP founder-member Prashant Bhushan said today.

Anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal today launched a scathing attack on chief minister Manohar Parrikar calling his controversial amendments to the lokayukta law "stupid".

A gardener of a school was arrested for sexually abusing a four-year-old nursery student in the school toilet, police said on Thursday.

Senior party leader Venkaiah Naidu today said that there is no dearth of leadership in BJP, if it was to project its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

The school headmistress, who was arrested following the alleged rape of a seven-year old girl student on the school premises in Goa's Vasco town, has claimed that she is being made a scapegoat in the case.

A policeman was arrested for allegedly molesting a woman on the pretext of conducting an investigation at her residence in Mapusa town near Panaji, police said on Tuesday.

Headmistress of a school run by the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) in Vasco town of Goa was arrested today for negligence in connection with the rape of a seven-year-old girl on the school premises, police said.

The school management has initiated an inquiry into the alleged insensitive statement made by a school official to the parent of the seven-year-old victim who was raped in a school at Vasco town of Goa.