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Media in Goa refers to the newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cable and television networks and online media in India 's smallest state (3700 square kilometres, population 1.6 million). Over the past two-and-half decades, the Goa-linked online media (both in the diaspora and from the region) has also grown. [1] [2]
O Heraldo was established as the first daily Portuguese newspaper on 21 May 1900 by Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes in Goa. [ 2] After a ten-year period in Lisbon, Messias Gomes undertook major expansions and modernisations of the paper's operations in 1919. [ 3] It was later transformed into an English daily in 1983, [ 4] by which time it had ...
Shashikala Kakodkar, only woman Chief Minister and the youngest (38) serving Chief Minister. Shripad Naik, longest serving MP from Goa and the current MP of North Goa. Suella Braverman, Assagao origin, Member of Parliament for Fareham. Valerie Vaz, Bastora origin, Member of Parliament for Walsall South.
Goan Catholics employ the Roman script for their religious and secular writings in Konkani. Goan Catholics speak the Konkani language which is key to the community's identity. [59] Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages, which is spoken predominantly on the west coast of India. [60]
Headquarters. Panaji, Goa. Circulation. 56,000 [1] (as of 2011) Website. www .navhindtimes .in. The Navhind Times is an English language newspaper in Goa. [2] Founded in 1963 and based in Panaji, the capital of Goa, [3] it is the largest selling newspaper, amongst the three locally published English newspapers in the state.
Fernandes was born in September 1943 into a Goan family in Nairobi, Kenya, which was still a British colony. He was raised, along with five siblings, by a single mother, after his alcoholic father had left the family. [1] He left school at 13 years old after the headmaster falsely accused him of stealing altar wine, but continued to read widely ...
Goans (Konkani: गोंयकार, Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.
Goan literature is the literature pertaining to the state of Goa in India . Goa has a population of around 1.4 million and an area of 3,700 sq. kilometres (1,430 sq. miles). For a small region, it has a significant amount of publication activity, possibly in part because its people write in a number of languages—perhaps as many as 13—and ...