[Goanet] Video: Palolem Beach (Plus pics of 2007)

2010-07-01 Thread JoeGoaUk
Palolem Beach - Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSrwu9_2TY       NOW compare with these pics during the seaon -April 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauksix/459374767/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauksix/459374719/sizes/l/

[Goanet] Goa opens up competition

2010-07-01 Thread Goa World
Goa opens up competition Intl. Film Festival of India adds acting awards By NAMAN RAMACHANDRAN LONDON -- The Intl. Film Festival of India in Goa has opened up its competition section to films from all parts of the world. Until now, entries were restricted to films from Asia, Latin America

Re: [Goanet] 'Christian musicians cannot represent India ’

2010-07-01 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - (excerpt) Writer Naresh Fernandes has brought that period to life in a series of landmark essays. He writes: *Until the 1980s, India had no pop music save for Hindi film songs. Millions memorized and hummed the compositions of C Ramachandra, Shankar and Jaikishan, Laxmikant and

[Goanet] United Friends to clash with Curtorcares for Title: J.P. D'Mello KIFF League

2010-07-01 Thread gaspersWorld ®
J.P. D'Mello KIFF League: Sponsored by Gulf Cable and Electrical Industries Co. United Friends to clash with Curtorcares United for Title Gasper Crasto for www.goa-world.com/ Kuwait: In the midst of World Cup football fever, a solitary second half goal scored by Remedio

[Goanet] Fwd: Good News!

2010-07-01 Thread floriano
- Original Message - From: Matanhy Saldanha To: jor...@sify.com ; Ajay Pereira ; petf...@hotmail.com ; floriano.l...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:52 AM Subject: Fwd: Good News! Dear Friends, The Environment need your support to protect the National assets and

[Goanet] Jumping Chicken and the 'Suicide' Feni - a short story with a difference

2010-07-01 Thread gaspersWorld ®
:::Breaking News – Breaking News – Breaking News!!!::: We are the first generation bombarded with so much news. Newspapers and internet provide us mouth-watering headlines, views, opinions and comments galore. In a sense, we are saturated with news, news and news; we're saturated with

[Goanet] Awarding contract for the removal of the beached ship River Princess

2010-07-01 Thread manuel tavares
Isn't it normal for the insurance company which insured the ship to bear the cost of salvage? I thought that this was the norm in the shipping industry or am I mistaken? Please enlighten me. Thanks. Manuel (Eddie) Tavares

[Goanet] Daily Grook #742

2010-07-01 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #742 === RHINO WHINO === by Francis Rodrigues if a situation precarious rose for the large mammal, to favour the rhinocerous makes it...hippo critical! *GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com

[Goanet] Goa Sudharop: World Cup sweepstake entries....Update

2010-07-01 Thread Gabe Menezes
*Friday, 2 July 2010* NED v BRA, QF, 15:00 Uruguay v Ghana, QF, 19:30 -- *Saturday, 3 July 2010* Argentina v Germany, QF, 15:00 PAR v SPA/, QF, 19:30 -- *Tuesday, 6 July 2010* Winner Q/F 1 v Winner Q/F 3, SF, 19:30

[Goanet] WORLD KONKANI DAY - 20th August, 2010

2010-07-01 Thread goanint
WORLD KONKANI DAY 20th August, 2010 Eric Ozario , Chairman , ManddSobhann - Mangalore, India. World Konkani Day is celebrated all over the world to commemorate the inclusion of Konkani in the Eighth schedule of the Indian Constitution. It was on that day in 1992, that Konkani was

Re: [Goanet] News: Outsider arrested for accepting too low a bribe

2010-07-01 Thread soter
Following the arrest of the migrant Registrar of Cooperatives for corruption we have reports about the arrest of 5 migrants for extortion of garbage collectors in St. Inez. They are Ramesh Pujari, Maruti Arigal, Laxman Kumbhari, and Kalesh Ramalgi. Along with the Ramanis and lamanis we also have

[Goanet] My first hand experience with spurious Ration Card manufacturers and whole sale distributors

2010-07-01 Thread floriano
Dear Goans everywhere, Yesterday evening I was at 'Remy Studios' at Mapusa to get my wife photographed for a visa application. [The problem is that Visa application photo is 35 x 45 mm which size is much bigger than the normal Passport Photograph]. And there was one Kanadiga, checking out

Re: [Goanet] Y viva Espana!

2010-07-01 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Dear Gabe, What U have been told or heard, is of course not true! There is no racism in Australia, officially or in practice! For many many years now, it has been so, and that is one of the reasons I am here and enjoying the good non segragated non casteist non racist life, for everyone. If it

Re: [Goanet] How dark chocolate can prevent brain injury fromstroke.

2010-07-01 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Hey Guys, I consume plenty of dark chocolate; but my preference is for Cadbury slab type Chocolate with milk. It has more of coco in it too, and a little milk will not kill u but help you. Of course I am a chocoholic! I am trying to control my addiction that has given me a 'belly' that I do not

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (1Jul10)

2010-07-01 Thread alexyz fernandes
*** Panjim - 4Kms *** Stupid Cop! 'Road Safety Week'...and he can't see where he's going..! To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] Next Time You're in ... Goa

2010-07-01 Thread Goanet News Service
Next Time You're in ... Goa By Chryselle D'silva Dias Thursday, Jul. 01, 2010 With Goa's connotations of full-moon parties, beaches and backpackers in tie-dyed pants, it's not surprising that most visitors to the Indian state are blithely unaware of its gritty agricultural past. In that

[Goanet] Interesting Scholarships for Christians and other minorities

2010-07-01 Thread Cecil Pinto
http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/newsite/schemes/postmatric/postmatric.htm http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/newsite/schemes/scholarships/scholarships.htm

[Goanet] Chauvinism V/s Patriotism - Adv. Radharao Gracias - Herald - June 25, 2010

2010-07-01 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
Although there are many debatable issues / points in an article by Adv. Radharao Gracias, Floriano Lobo's comment on RSS added little more interest to it. In the article Radharao had suggested that the RSS, who forever talks about patriotism, should have made a special effort to fill in the

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-07-01 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Jim, U have correctly stated what I wanted to say, in response to what great? Santosh had to say on this. I would like to add: The zero may have been invented in India; but this is disputed. The Sumerians the civilisation between the two great rivers in what is now Iraq, are claiming the xero

Re: [Goanet] Subject: Re: Goan Tolerance (Letter in Goan Daily OHeraldo)

2010-07-01 Thread Tony de Sa
JC: b: Is zipping an open fly 'an activity' which warrants a citizen's arrest? Is Moira part of Persia? Dear Dotor Bab, Did you not know that Moira is a Banana Republic from time immemorial? We have now advanced so much that we have a single party Government. Its PM is also a Goa Netter and a

Re: [Goanet] 'Christian musicians cannot represent India?

2010-07-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
The point This is no way diminishes the contribution of the Goan musicians. There is no need to exaggerate or embroider reality to make this point. is respectfully, and well taken. What helps in this cases is to give a sense of what that sound is or was. Such as, when did it become specifically

[Goanet] Racism in Australia

2010-07-01 Thread Vasant Baliga
Mr.Caldeira is obviously in some sort of Utopia if he says that there is no racism in Australia.Racism is alive and thriving in Australia and raising a strawman bogey of attacking Hinduism and the Caste system is just diversionary . India and Hinduism has it's flaws but to assert that there is

[Goanet] GOA SUDHAROP: Flip Flop update

2010-07-01 Thread George Pinto
Thanks to donors from around the world, 15 year-old Kiran has made his goal for flip flops to be sent to Goa, actually he has exceeded his goal. Thanks to all of you for making this possible and the Goa Sudharop International Youth Leadership which is taking shape to connect Goan youth around

[Goanet] Former Goa minister denied anticipatory bail

2010-07-01 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
Former Goa minister denied anticipatory bail (Lead) New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday rejected a petition by former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the death of his alleged lover, 28-year-old Nadia Torrado. Nadia died at a

[Goanet] Mickky Pacheco denied anticipatory bail by Supreme Court

2010-07-01 Thread borg costa
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a petition by former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the death of his alleged lover, 28-year-old Nadia Torrado. Nadia died at a Chennai hospital May 30, 15 days after she allegedly consumed rat poison. The

[Goanet] Petrous equation.

2010-07-01 Thread eric pinto
Jimmy/Santosh - tell us something about the man who we as well as the Greeks call Pitagarh. eric. From: Jim Fernandes amigo007 I don't give much importance to the invention of zero by an ancient Indian to arithmetic. If the decimal numbering system was

[Goanet] Indie-Pop Rock !

2010-07-01 Thread eric pinto
Recent NY club scene :  Indie-Pop, I am told.   eric. From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yaho (excerpt) Writer Naresh Fernandes has brought that period to life in a series of landmark essays. He writes: *Until the 1980s, India had no pop music save for Hindi

[Goanet] Pawar Takes Over As World Cricket Chief

2010-07-01 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
Singapore, July 1 - Sharad Pawar, former chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, was Thursday takes over as president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) succeeding England's David Morgan, the outgoing chief. The spokesperson of ICC, James Fitzgerald told news media today Pawar

[Goanet] TIBCO Software Inc. (http://www.tibco.com) is looking for a technical writer for the Pune office

2010-07-01 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
TIBCO Software Inc. (http://www.tibco.com) is looking for a technical writer for the Pune office. The job profile and other details are listed below. Type of Position: Contract / Intern Experience: Contract position: 5+ years of technical writing experience Intern position: Graduate with good

Re: [Goanet] News: Outsider arrested for accepting too low a bribe

2010-07-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
You guys would do yourselves and Goa a big favour if you focussed on corruption, instead of ethnicity! FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 On 1 July 2010 14:05, soter so...@bsnl.in wrote: Following the arrest of the migrant Registrar of Cooperatives for corruption we have

[Goanet] Police seek to declare former Goa minister absconder

2010-07-01 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
Police seek to declare former Goa minister absconder Panaji, July 1 (IANS) Missing for nearly a month, former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco, who is an accused in the mysterious death of his 28-year-old lover, could be declared an absconder, police said Thursday. Police sources told IANS

[Goanet] Mining concerns.

2010-07-01 Thread eric pinto
From a blog-spot. It is not the only human rights issue largely because there is large number of government agencies – central as well as state agencies involved in the perpetuation of mining industry in Goa in the manner it is proceeding currently. Our intellectuals in the centers of

Re: [Goanet] Awarding contract for the removal of the beached ship River Princess

2010-07-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
On 1 July 2010 07:51, manuel tavares duk...@bell.net wrote: Isn't it normal for the insurance company which insured the ship to bear the cost of salvage? I thought that this was the norm in the shipping industry or am I mistaken? Please enlighten me. Thanks. Manuel (Eddie) Tavares See the

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Thorny but beautiful

2010-07-01 Thread JoeGoaUk
Thorny but beautiful   Each one is different..   http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk3/4752406589/sizes/l/   http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk3/4753046890/   http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk3/4753045648/sizes/l/ joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info...

Re: [Goanet] Re.Goan migrants in the Gulf are causing harm to Arab

2010-07-01 Thread marlon menezes
Arwin, You obviously replied in haste, because you did not check your facts: 1) I did not know that the Gulf countries were beaming centers of democracy for its locals. Last time I checked, most were ruled by monarchies who deny the rights of their citizens and continue to let in migrant

[Goanet] COLUMN: There are no Congressmen left in the Congress Party, only traitors and turncoats?

2010-07-01 Thread Nisser Dias
There are no Congressmen left in the Congress Party, only traitors and turncoats? By Nisser Dias nisserdias at gmail.com SMS to 9422437029 “I am a congressman”, “I have always been a congressman at heart”, “I have been brought up in the congress culture”, “my soul have always been with the

[Goanet] Goa news for July 2, 2010

2010-07-01 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Police seek to declare former Goa minister absconder - Sify ear-old lover, ...

[Goanet] Grænavatn

2010-07-01 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2010/07/01/grænavatn Regards, r

Re: [Goanet] Subject: Re: Goan Tolerance (Letter in Goan Daily OHeraldo)

2010-07-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thank goodness JoeGoaUk or Rajan Parrikar isn't around, the Goanetter said, as he re-zipped his fly! Goodness gracious, how wrong could we (the unnamed Goanetter and me) be! Rajan Parrikar *is* very much around in Goa currently, and he even showed up searching for Soter last evening at Cafe

[Goanet] Goa Sudharop: Quebec Goan Association Float on Canada Day Parade

2010-07-01 Thread George Pinto
Congratulations to the Quebec Goan Association for keeping Goan heritage alive in Canada. See photos link and write up below. Goa Sudharop www.goasudharop.org -- On Thu, 7/1/10, mary silveira marysilve...@hotmail.com wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoart/sets/72157624402147096 The

Re: [Goanet] News: Outsider arrested for accepting too low a bribe

2010-07-01 Thread soter
Here comes Frederick the ethnic watch dog for the migrant cause in Goa. Everyone else must fight corruption while his mouth is locked and hands are tied to ensure acceptability of the establishment to avail government schemes. Frederick must first show what he has done to expose corruption in

Re: [Goanet] News: Outsider arrested for accepting too low a bribe

2010-07-01 Thread J. Colaco jc
[A] Rajan Parrikar (tongue in cheek) noted that an outsider, was arrested yesterday by the Vigilance bureau for accepting an amount that was deemed too low by the standards acceptable to Goa and Goans. [B] soter de Souza wrote: Following the arrest of the migrant Registrar of Cooperatives for

[Goanet] ICS- Timely Tips- H.E. Ambassador's message to the Indian Community

2010-07-01 Thread Goan Cultural Centre
Dear Member of the Indian Community in Kuwait, Following the India Tourism road show held in Kuwait in October 2009, the Embassy co-hosted a week-long “Festival of India in Kuwait” in November 2009. Working Groups on Hydrocarbons (December 2009) and Labour, Employment and Manpower Development

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Come what may, I am here to stay..

2010-07-01 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: Come what may, I am here to stay.. She is talking about Ration card too   Meet her here.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk27/4752578093/sizes/l/   Other related most recent ones – July 1, 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk27/4752582963/sizes/l/

[Goanet] Ivor D'Cunha - the little show man of Assolna -By Sabina Fernandes e Dias

2010-07-01 Thread Goa World
Ivor D'Cunha - the little show man of Assolna By Sabina Fernandes e Dias - Dubai Ivor D'Cunha - a devoted artist, lover of Konkani and Goa's culture is a bunch of talents - be it singing, acting, and composing of lyrics or script for tiatr, mimicry or comic roles. His deep love for Goa's