The battle was fought in the Diu harbour on the Arabian Sea. The Portuguese commander was Viceroy Dom Francesco de Almeida who lost his 20-year-old son in the campaign.

M P Anil Kumar on the liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu 50 years ago. Backstory: a brief history. Beginning with Vasco da Gama's landmark landing at Kozhikode on May 20, 1498, the Portuguese hoped ...

2006-03-19 04:00:00 PDT Diu, India-- I had never known that the island of Diu, the old Portuguese colonial outpost, was haunted by ghosts until three Indian schoolboys took me on an informal tour ...

The Daman and Diu Lok Sabha constituency is one of the two parliamentary constituencies in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu located in western India. Established in ...

Dating back to the 8th and 13th century, Diu was historically the stronghold of the Chowda Rajputs. However, the territory was thereafter ruled by Muslim Emperors for 200 years followed by the ...