A survey by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration reveals that Goa has the lowest percentage of Muslim students.

The process of delimitation and reservation will always be biased if it is undertaken by government servants, who are eager to please the ruling party.

GARY AZAVEDO spoke to Minister for Panchayati Raj, Laxmikant Parsekar and former minister Manohar Azgaonkar, on the upcoming elections and the delimitation controversy.

Almost 30 mining leases were permitted within the Mhadei and Netravali sanctuaries.

Elections to the Calangute Panchayat were postponed after complaints that there was gross misconduct in the delimitation exercise.

The clash between residents of Tropa in Siolim and a group of ‘Believers’ headed by Domnic and Joan D’Souza appears to have political undertones, with locals upset over illegalities that have been ignored by the authorities.

Although the union cabinet has cleared a bill amending marriage laws, these lack clarity, transparency and are narrow in scope.

At the recently held Indian Today Conclavem writer Salman Rushdie recently spoke of the freedom to write and his philosophy as a “language animal” among other things.

2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Sabarmati holocaust. However, only few reports stood out.

Narendra Modi was featured on the cover of TIME magazine in March. Despite his involvement in the Godhra tragedy, he is being seen as a serious candidate for prime minister in the 2014 elections because people - regardless of caste and community - are disillusioned with the Congress and will settle for a politician who delivers.