The BJP government in Goa led by new chief minister Pramod Sawant is facing a floor test to prove its majority in the Assembly. read more

Goa Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant, 45, had emerged as the frontrunner to succeed Manohar Parrikar after the BJP made it clear that the party should retain the chief minister’s post and not hand it on a platter to alliance partners. read more

Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, 63, died at his Panaji residence on Sunday evening just over a year after he was detected with cancer. He was 63. read more

The Congress has staked claim in Goa to form government saying that the BJP-led coalition has lost majority in the state assembly. read more

Rane reached Delhi on Monday before Congress legislators Subhash Shirodkar and Dayanand Sopte took a flight there to meet Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah Tuesday. The two MLAs later resigned from the assembly and switched parties read more

The Shiv Sena on Friday said that not just the state cabinet but the entire Goa Assembly should be shifted to AIIMS in New Delhi where ailing chief minister Manohar Parrikar has been hospitalised. read more

The move came days after the party staked claim to form an alternate government, contending that the BJP-led ruling alliance had lost majority in the Assembly. read more

Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar had initially expressed his inability to discharge his duties and sought that his workload be transferred to other ministers. read more

There is speculation that Parrikar may recommend dissolution of the assembly and recommend holding assembly elections along with the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. read more

While Pandurang Madkaikar is in a Mumbai hospital since last month, Francis D’Souza is in Mumbai for a health check-up and Sudin Dhavalikar has told the Speaker that he would be unavailable for a few days. read more

The Manohar Parrikar-led state government, which came to power after the elections in March last year, is currently supported by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party and Goa Forward Party. read more

The guidelines say a journalist who wants accreditation to cover an assembly session must have experience of at least five years, and the newspaper he or she belongs to must have a circulation of more than 15,000. read more

Manohar Parrikar was initially admitted to Goa Medical College due to food poisoning and was shifted to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital on February 15, where he was being treated for “mild pancreatitis”. read more

The fisheries minister says subsidies for the fishing industries are not really helping to keep the price of fish within the common man’s reach and a majority of the haul is being exported. read more

The book — ‘Sudhirsukt’ (Hymns of a Shudra) — came out four years ago and was written by former BJP MLA Vishnu Surya Naik Wagh but first surfaced in the news a month ago with rumours that it was in line to get the state’s highest literary award. read more