The 4th Global Goan Convention opened with flair and finesse, the location was well set within the Indian Embassy in Oman, within close proximity of the British and the American Embassies, for once I felt proud to note that the Indian Embassy had a much bigger area than the rest.

Ponda-based Goan teacher, Suniti Marathe, has been voted as the grand prize winner for the 2009 Heroes Among Us program, the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour announced.

Centro de Lingua Portuguesa-Instituto Camões, Goa, anounces the examinations of International Certification of Portuguese as a Foreign Language.

Private candidates enrolled in May 2009 and private candidates who have been declared as "Needs Improvement/Fails" in their previous Examination and desiring to appear for H.S.S.C. Examination of March 2010 are required to submit their application  forms in the Board’s office as per below schedule.

Sonshi primary school in Sattari has neither a playground nor running water. Instead of these luxuaries, the children can play in mining dust.

Health authorities in Goa on Thursday directed the closure of city-based People’s High School for one week till September 30, following two confirmed and three suspected cases of H1N1 among its students.

The Education Department is planning to open government pre-primary schools in Goa from the next academic year. The reason - to increase enrollments in government schools. Good. So what's the plan?

For the 12 students of the Sonshi Government Primary School in Sattari, playing with mining dust is not an option. It is the only option.

Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Mr. Pratapsing Rane and Education Minister Mr Antansio Monserrate visited the Govt. College of Arts, Science and Commerce at Sanquelim to take stock of the infrastructure on the campus.

Rajya Sabha MP, Mr Shantaram Naik has stated that Goa should get the full 50% reservations of NIT admissions. He said the state should not have to share the seats with Union Territories of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Lakshadweep Islands.