Panaji: As the controversy over former Goa RSS chief Subhash Velingkar’s comments on St Francis Xavier rages, numerous Hindu organisations will gather in Panaji on Tuesday to discuss the Goa ...

Hindu Raksha Maha Aghadi has called for scientific excavation at church sites in Goa, stating that evidence should be ...

Just like Italian explorer Christopher Columbus mistook America for India when he made landfall on the continent in 1492, Portuguese adventurer Vasco da Gama also ...

Some historians in Goa, the former Portuguese colony on India’s west coast, oppose the state government’s moves to officially refer to a Portuguese-era pillar as “a pillar where hands were cut,” ...

The Goa government on Thursday granted a 10-month extension to the expert committee to submit the report on the recommendation of sites for reconstruction of temples that were destroyed during the ...

'The othering of religious groups inevitably leads to violence.' 'It is sadly a narrative that has echoed through the centuries since man first discovered God.' IMAGE: The Se Cathedral at Old Goa, an ...

The former chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Goa, Subhash Velingkar, is absconding after the police registered a first information report against him on Friday for demanding a DNA analysis ...

The history of the Catholic inquisition—a controversial period which saw religious persecution in Goa, then a Portuguese colony—should no longer be brushed under the carpet, Goa's Archives and ...

The Pelourinho Novo (lit. ’New Pillory’), also known as Hath Katro Khamb[b] (lit. ’Hand-Cutting Pillar’), in Old Goa. (Credit: Wikimedia.) Listen MUMBAI, India – There is a controversy over the ...

The BJP-led state government has renamed a 16th-century pillar to make it a symbol of Hindu victims of the Inquisition. For scholar Frazer Andrade, the new name is misleading, lacking any verifiable ...