Three persons were arrested by Calangute police on Wednesday for allegedly looting and assaulting four Bengaluru tourists.

Goa’s mortality count shot up to 327 with eight deaths—two women and six men—on Thursday. The state’s tally of active cases rose to 5,612 with 644 new cases reported.

Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that although 80% of stakeholders have supported the partial reopening of schools for Classes IX to XII from September 21, educational institutions will not resume operations till October 2.

The unemployment crisis in the country has put the future of India’s youth in jeopardy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to ensure that the Centre takes steps to create employment opportunities for Indian youth, Congress said here on Thursday.

In a bid to make the capital city open defecation free (ODF), the corporation of the city of Panaji (CCP) has issued a work order for the construction of 310 individual toilets for homes.

The state government has kept a proposal to organise an electronic dance music (EDM) festival in the last week of December on hold.​