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.
The body of a young woman was found in the forest area of Assagao village in Goa with police suspecting it to be a case of rape.
A dead body of a young woman was on Thursday found stripped naked, her head smashed, in Goa's Assagao jungles, police said, adding they suspect she was raped also.
The parents of a minor girl, who was raped in a Goa school four days back, have alleged that the school staff tried to destroy the evidence of the crime.
"I wanted to rob a bank to raise money to publish a book," a medical student, who was caught robbing a bank at knife-point a few days ago, told a trial court in Panaji, Goa.
A seven-year-old second grade student was sexually abused in the school toilet next to the office of the headmistress during recess on Monday, by an unidentified person, police said today.
A head constable was today arrested in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of commercial sex workers, police said.
In Goa, where liquor bars and stores dominate the business landscape, police and activists believe that ice cream and juice parlours are hubs of "anti-social activities" and have threatened a crackdown on these humble establishments.
A new amendment to the money laundering act in Goa now mandates all casinos in the state to keep tabs on lawmakers, judicial officers as well as civilian and military officials in order to ensure that they do not spend money not in proportionate to their salaries.
Almost eight years after several hundred shanties in the lone red light area in the city were demolished by the Goa government, the Bombay High Court has asked the state to provide rehabilitation benefits to the affected people within six months.
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar has criticised the media for giving undue publicity to Congress leaders in the state who filed "bogus" complaints against his ministers.
The Congress party in Goa today filed a complaint with the CBI against two BJP state ministers alleging their role in the drug peddler-policemen-politician nexus case of 2010.
Goa Police has registered an offence against suspected serial killer Mahanand Naik under Information Technology Act for threatening a woman, whom he had allegedly raped, using a mobile phone from the high-security Central jail at Aguada near Goa.
It’s not just Congress leaders who have been beneficiaries of the iron ore mining business in Goa. Affidavits filed with the Election Commission ahead of Assembly polls in 2012 have revealed that at least four sitting BJP MLAs are beneficiaries of the mining trade either as iron ore dealers or transport contractors, Snehal Rebello reports.
Environment ministry and the Goa government are caught in war of words over the mining mess the state as the Supreme Court hearing in the case nears. Chetan Chauhan reports.