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(H) o Police interrogated all the three mess boys who had worked at the Macazana Church during the last three years.H o Police want to check up whether Amit had obtained passport documents from the Goa passport office. (H) o Fr Ferrao was an affable person. (GT) o Two persons who matched the description of Amit and Manish published in a local newspaper were seen at a bar in Panjim. (GT) BUDGET SESSION BEGINS TODAY: Goa assembly's five-day budget session begins Monday, and is expected to be stormy with the Opposition BJP training its guns on the Rane government over various controversies in the past two months. Including the issue of an alleged terrorist in Margao, the Curchorem communal disturbances, Mopa airport, IT parks, the north-south expressway, monorail, and implementation of schemes like Cyberage, and the Dayanand Social Security Scheme. (H) o Russian lady Elma (23) was arrested at the Dabolim airport when she was found behaving in an unusual manner and started removing her clothes. She was taken to the Institute of Psychiatry, Bambolim. (H) o Mineowners will be charged for dumping rejects in government land, says Rane in assembly. (DigitalGoa) o River Princess (ship marooned off Candolim beach for half-a-decade) will go. New expert committee appointed says Willy. (DigitalGoa) o Tony Rodrigues and Yatin Parekh elected unanimously as mayor and deputy of Corporation of the City of Panjim in the first meet of newly-elected corporators on Monday. (DigitalGoa) o Interpol in Goa to quiz Battlo. (GT) o Comba photo studio Photographix burgled. (H) o Trafficarrangements for Shigmo festival in Vasco. (NT) o Like the Carnival, the Shigmo too disrupted road traffic in Mapusa on Sunday evening. (GNB) o Margao town police arrested Aquem Baixio sarpanch Peter Vaz for alleged misappropriation. (NT) o Churchill insists on scrapping of Mopa proposal. (GT) o Hitrakhan Manch protests over violation of recruitment rules. (GT) o Ambulance, dispensary gifted to Pissurlem. (GT) o Commuters demand action against bus operators. (GT) o Surla to be converted into a model village: CM o Illegal construction on public road at Talapwaddo, Cumbharjua in total violation of rules. (GT) o Congress' Vichar Vibhag (intellectual wing) said the arrest of Tariq Jallal has "revealed beyond any doubt" that Goa is one of the target-areas of the terrorist groups. It said any attack on minority communities will provoke terrorists to expedite their destruction activities in Goa. (NT) o Congress Vichar Vibhag (intellectual cell) flays role played by BJP MLA of Curchorem Ramrao Dessai and other MLAs for pouring oil into the fire instead of advising supporters to stop the violence. VV chairman Uday Bhembre said all members came to the conclusion that the Curchorem violence was a pre-planned attack, with a definite goal of instilling fear among the minority communities. (GT) o SPORTS: Security take care of for one-day intl match between India and England on April 3: Narvekar.(H) o SPORTS: Fransa-Pax Football Club has apparently found no favour with the Appeal Committee of the All India Football Federation. (H) -------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR GOA... OUR GOA -------------------------------------------------------------- o River Sal stinks of sewage: The existing underground sewerage line has developed a leakage, from where sewage water is gushing out into the River Sal at Khareband, polluting the river. (Herald) Eco-friendly bags contest at Vasco: MPT Hospital at Sada will organise an all-Goa eco-friendly bags competition on World Earth Day. Entries to be submitted on April 20 to Ms Prafulla Gunaji at the MPT Hospital's Diabetic Clinic. (NT) o Fear grips Benaulim as local dies of rabies. Anxious residents, including immediate neighbours and people who participated in the funeral, came in for vaccinations at the health centres. (H) o Salvador do Mundo locals have listed conditions for setting up an IT park in Goa. They called for pollution-free industries, and said 60% of jobs should be reserved for sons and daughters of the soil. IT projects shoudl have sewage and garbage plants, they said. Likewise, the government should not acquire land on cashew plantations, they said. (H) Raje Saundekar passes away: Shrimant Savaiveer Sadashiv Basavling Vadiyar alias Raje Saundekar (75) expired on Sunday evening after a brief illness in a private hospital in Belgaum. He comes from the family which played a prominent role in the Indo-Portuguese history of Goa, the Rajas of Saunda. o Sotreo Utsav: Cuncolim set to welcome Goddess Shantadurga today. Sharmila Pais e Martins writes, Cuncolim reverberates with festivities of the Sotreo Utsav (Umbrella Festival) held annually during the Shigmo festival. The grandios occasion on March 20 will mark the return of Shri Shantadurga Kunkallinkarin, the village deity on a visit from Fatorpa to her original home (sthan) at Cuncolim. A spirit of unity within the the religious community is visible to a discerning eye. People swarm inside the temple premises from all walks of life, irrespective of caste, colour or creed.(H) o Dr Joe D'Souza calls the Dayanand Social Security Scheme a "scam drawing over Rs 60 crore of tax-payer's money to give a pittance of Rs 750 per month to 100,000 individuals who truly do not deserve alms, but by right should have demanded work". OF SOULS, SPICES AND VIDEO: A cultural project that could reveal our cultural and traditional history and how the Portuguese influenced Goa is being undertaken by Desmond Nazareth and Christopher Rego, for Contacto Goa. (GT) o At the world's largest tourism far, the ITB-Berlin 2006, Goa distinguished itself by a shambolic display. Representatives from Goa were neither able to provide an estimate of what the state's 2006-onwards brief is, nor are they apparently aware of the need to work a plan, writes Rahul Goswami, journalist, currently in Berlin (GT). -------------------------------------------------------------- GOOD NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------- o Paulo Travels has launched Volvo morning buses for Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda, Pune, Mumbai, Belgaum and Kolhapur. The only-overnight buses earlier had reduced the flexibility of road travel out of and into Goa somewhat. -------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION -------------------------------------------------------------- o Institute of Ship Building Technology Bogda, Vasco will organise their Waves 06 festival on March 21-22.(H) o Goa lacks manpower for software, R&D says GCCI IT committee chairman Sandeep Vernekar. (H) o Tivim's Rajendra Ramesh Kanekar, who studied from the Kamaxidevi Homeopathic College and Hospital at Shiroda, became the first homeopath to be elected to the Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH). (H) o Goa's first ad-hoc additional district court has directed Goa University to demolish the portion of its library building at Taleigao and dismantle the road they built in unacquired property. (NT) o Promote IT eduation in rural areas, says Goa Chambers of Commerce and Industry. GCCI president Nitin Kuncolienkar said, "The GCCI is happy with the initiatives taken by the government in IT education, but we would be happier if IT eduation in schools is given a front seat and the Cyberage scheme is given a beat seat. Goa government spending nearly Rs 75 to 100 crore a year on the Cyberage scheme (under which computers are given to college students almost free), he said. (H) -------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS FROM SUNAPARANT: -------------------------------------------------------------- o Rajyapal padacho gayrvapar, pun samvidhanat badal naka. Governors are misusing their position, but no need for a change in the Indian constitution, says seminar at Salgaocar law college. o Jal, the Pakistani band will perform in Goa on March 25. o Aatam, rikshachalkancho band. Now, rikshaw drivers to go on a strike. o Soundekar raja sansavarak antarle. Raja of Saunda had died. He was known as the Raja of Saunda, a region in Karnataka. It ruled the region in the 16th region. Not just that, but at that point of time it also controled a significant area of Goa -- Sanguem, Ponda, Canacona and Quepem. In the 18th century, Hyder Ali attacked Saunda. These talukas were handed over to the Portuguese by a treaty and the Portuguese stationed the Raja's family first at Old Goa-Pilar and then at Bandora. -------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE OF THE DAY -------------------------------------------------------------- o We strongly condemn the heinous crime and we don't intend to politicise the issue. The incident has occurred as the law and order situation under the Rane government since June last year has reached an abysmal level. Minorities are not safe in the hands of the Congress. -- BJP Goa unit president Rajendra Arlekar, while condemning the murder of the priest at Macazana. -------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS AND REMEMBRANCES -------------------------------------------------------------- o ALDONA: Edward Wilfred Joaquim Bocarro, ex-Sesa Goa, Carona o BANDORA: Raje Saundekar @ Shrimant Savaiveer Sadashiv Rajendra Basavling Vadiyar. Parthiv will be kept at Nageshi Bandora (Goa) at Shivtirth Palace for darshana from 10.30am o CALANGUTE: Alex Duarte Monteiro, Porbavaddo, b 1935 o CALANGUTE: Anthony Peter Paul "Tony" D'Souza, b 1933 o ST JOSE DE AREAL: Antoneta da Silva, b 1925. FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Fr Eusebio Ferrao, b 1944, expired under tragic circumstances on March 18. Funeral on Tuesday, March 21 at 3.30 pm to St Anthony's Chapel at Deussua, Chinchinim. o BASTORA: Luiza Emilia Angelina D'Souza of Xell. o CANSAULIM: Marcal A Dias 'Chirko' o MAPUSA: Sudhakar J Zarapkar, 12th day remembrance o ORLIM: Flora Fernandes, month's mind. o UK/PORVORIM: Domingos Jose Correia of Aldona. Remembrance. o TIVIM: Rosario Fernandes 'Domnic' 3rd anniversary. o VASCO DA GAMA: Maria Etelvina D'Souza, first anniversary. o Harish B Chandwani, b 1946, 12th day remembrance -------------------------------------------------------------- GOANET NEWS BYTES NEEDS VOLUNTEERS -------------------------------------------------------------- If you can compile Goa-related and expat-related news from across the world, get in touch with [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------- CULINARY CORNER Special from Daisy Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------- SINGAPORIAN FISH CURRY: You can use any white fish fillets that keep their shape well. This recipe will yield a lot of sauce, so serve over basmati rice. You'll find coconut vinegar in Asian stores. You will need to marinate the fish for at least 30 minutes. It is included in the cooking time. Marinade: 1/4cup lemon juice (60 ml), 1/4 cup coconut vinegar(60 ml), 2 teaspoons cumin seeds, 1 teaspoon ground turmeric, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 teaspoon salt Other Ingredients: 2 lbs white fish fillets (1 kg, should hold well together), 1/4 cup oil (60 ml), 1 large onion (chopped), 3 large garlic cloves (minced), 2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger, 1 teaspoon black mustard seeds, 1200g chopped canned tomatoes (1.2kg /2 1/2 lbs), 2 small green chilies (deseeded and chopped), 2 tablespoons palm sugar, grated (or brown sugar), 3-4 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander. Mix all ingredients for the marinade in a bowl. Check if all bones are removed from the fish fillets. If not, use a pair of tweezers. Cut the fish into 1x4 inches pieces (2.5x10cm) and marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature or longer in the fridge. Heat a wok on high temperature, put in oil. Reduce heat to the lowest temperature and add chopped onion, garlic and mustard seeds. Cook on very low heat for 5 minutes or more, stirring frequently. Add fish fillets, marinade, tomatoes, chillies, and palm sugar (or brown sugar). Add a lid and cook for 10-15 minutes. Fish is cooked if it can easily be parted with a fork. Serve over basmati rice and sprinkle with the fresh coriander. --------------------------------------------------------------- ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||g |||o |||a |||n |||e |||t || Issue compiled by ||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| Frederick Noronha |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyleft Goanet 2005 http://www.creativecommons.org You may reproduce this ezine in its entirety, with credits retained. -------------------------------------------------------------- Goanet, the net-worker of all networks. Stay in touch. --------------------------------------------------------------