Goa Libration Day is celebrated on 19th December every year, marking a pivotal moment in India’s history. On this day in 1961 ...

Goa on India's western coast was freed from Portuguese rule on 19 December 1961, more than four centuries after it was colonised. The fight for freedom began in the 1940s as India inched closer to ...

Goa Liberation Day stands as a tribute to the relentless efforts and sacrifices of its citizens for freedom, making it a ...

The Liberation of Goa, known as Operation Vijay, was a decisive Indian military campaign from December 17–19, 1961, aimed at ending over 450 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa, Daman ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Goan history“accounts for over 40 rebellions against Portuguese rule ... October 1955 to find a solution to Goa. In November 1955, during a visit ...

India’s swift liberation of Goa in 1961 exposed Western hypocrisy, while Portugal’s colonial claims crumbled at the UN, marking a historic triumph of diplomacy, military precision, and ...

In 2024, this day will be 63 years since this liberation. Goa was under Portuguese rule for more than 450 years, and the state became a colony even after the country of India gained freedom in 1947.

The group visited Daman, Diu, Bassein (Vasai), and Goa. “We tried to visit all the places which were under Portuguese rule,” she said. The group sat through the entire high Mass on the feast ...

Why did the Portuguese first come to India? Why did Alfonso de Albuquerque capture Goa, when that was not the task he was set by Portugal's King Manuel? Here are three important things you should know ...

For the unversed, Goa was a Portuguese colony for ... to get an exemption from taxes. Under the dictatorship of Antonio Salazar situation got worst. In his rule, people were denied basic rights ...

To see Goa at the peak of its festivities is during ... The festival is a legacy of several hundred years of Portuguese rule. While some consider it to be a relic of ancient pagan rituals ...