goanet-digest Tuesday, June 25 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4112
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[Goanet] NEWS: Uma Bharati dreams of India at World Cup
[Goanet] NEWS: Sena-BJP back to toppling game in Maharashtra
[Goanet] Pe.Pio's Cannonisation marked in Kuwait.
[Goanet] Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
[Goanet] 25 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
[Goanet] NEWS: Parrikar uses Goa funds to boost RSS image in Gujarat
[Goanet] Re: Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:37:04 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Uma Bharati dreams of India at World Cup
Uma Bharti dreams of India at World Cup
>From Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) It's a much, much longer shot than the one wily
Brazilian Ronaldinho kicked into the England goal defeating goalkeeper David
Seaman in Shizuoka Friday.
Can the Indian football XI -- which doesn't figure even among the top 100
world teams -- get a slot among the qualifying top 32?
Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Uma Bharti dreams of it. She says she is
dead serious about giving a big push to the Indian side so that it gets to
play in the grand event -- in future.
"Cricket is very popular in India and hockey is associated with national
pride. I keep football -- equally popular -- at number three," Bharti told
ESPN sports channel in an interview telecast Monday.
"We have, however, failed to do anything in international football (as) we
lack seriousness for football.
"But I am very serious about taking it (the Indian team) to the World Cup. I
personally want to encourage football. My ministry is trying its best."
No Asian country has ever won the coveted cup in its 72-year history.
South Korea would be the first Asian team to play in the semi-final when it
takes on Germany Tuesday. Brazil and Turkey play the other semi-final
Wednesday and the winners of the two matches will play the finals on Sunday.
In a two-part interview, the second of which would be telecast Tuesday,
Bharti said a large chunk of money has been allocated for
international-level Indian players and more would be spent on good coaching.
The government will give contracts to private parties to build
infrastructure like stadiums.
The minister said India would host the Afro-Asian Games in 2003.
"We have to organise big games to encourage our players," she said.
A sum of Rs.1 billion would be spent on the tournament to be attended by
about 94 countries.
Bharti ruled out reviving cricket ties with Pakistan, which New Delhi
snapped last year citing Islamabad's continued support to anti-India
terrorism.
"India will not play Pakistan in any bilateral cricket match until Pakistan
stops cross-border terrorism," she said.
"Cricket creates a lot of passion, a passion that people cannot control."
The minister, however, said India would not back out of any match against
Pakistan at the 2003 World Cup cricket in South Africa.
"That would not amount to reviving cricketing ties," she said.
She added that she had taught a "lesson" to the Indian cricket control
board, which had differed with her on this issue.
"Now we have a good understanding," she remarked.
Referring to the stranglehold of politicians on many sports management
organisations, Bharti said: "Nepotism has to end. The selection process must
be cleansed. I will try to make the federations more accountable."
She was all praise for Indian sporting talent.
"There's no dearth of talent in India," she remarked. "Athletes who win
bronze at the Olympics can win gold. We have failed to support them but all
that will change."
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:26:38 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Sena-BJP back to toppling game in Maharashtra
Sena-BJP back to toppling game in Maharashtra
By Shiv Kumar, Indo-Asian News Service
Mumbai, June 24 (IANS) Refusing to be discouraged by their failure to topple
the Maharashtra government last week, the opposition combine of Shiv Sena
and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hatching another plan to dislodge it.
The opposition alliance is now working towards defeating the ruling
coalition in a legislative vote during the next assembly session beginning
July 29, sources in the opposition told IANS here Monday.
Over the next month, the Sena-BJP hopes to build bridges with several
legislators who support Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's ruling coalition
to turn them against the government, a Sena leader said.
The Sena-BJP plans to oust Deshmukh by forcing a defeat in a vote on the
government's budgetary proposals. If that fails, the opposition could bring
a censure motion and force yet another vote, he added.
Lending credence to the development, BJP leader and former deputy chief
minister Gopinath Munde said: "The government will surely collapse during
the monsoon session (of the assembly)." He was talking to reporters at
Nanded, 700 km from here, during the weekend.
The Sena leader, who preferred anonymity, told IANS that several independent
legislators as also those from smaller parties in the 288-seat assembly
promised to vote against the government or abstain.
On June 13, Deshmukh, who belongs to Sonia Gandhi's Congress party, won a
trust vote in the assembly 143-133, ending weeks of a charged-up attempt by
the opposition to bring down his government.
The victory margin would have been narrower but for assembly speaker Arun
Gujarathi's decision to disqualify seven legislators who rebelled from
Deshmukh's coalition and crossed to the opposition. The seven legislators
have since appealed to the Bombay High Court against the speaker's decision.
Deshmukh's troubles had begun late in May when a string of resignations and
desertions reduced it to a minority. The Sena-BJP claimed it had sufficient
numbers to defeat Deshmukh and replace his government.
Both Deshmukh's Congress and former defence minister Sharad Pawar's
Nationalist Congress Party packed off legislators to the neighbouring state
of Karnataka to prevent further defections to Sena-BJP.
Although he won the vote, Deshmukh has been acutely aware that his problems
are far from over. He is, therefore, now wooing smaller parties and
independents. Deshmukh said he indicated he could this or next week expand
his cabinet to placate many of them.
This week, the government announced duty concessions on private ports in a
bid to appease the five-legislator Peasants and Workers Party (PWP), whose
resignation from the ruling coalition had sparked the crisis for Deshmukh.
The PWP saved the day for Deshmukh when it abstained from the trust vote of
June 13.
But although the government aimed to please PWP leader Jayant Patil who owns
a port in Raigad near here, with its decision, it has not had the desired
effect. Patil told reporters that he wanted even greater sops.
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:43:18 +0000
From: "A. Veronica Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Pe.Pio's Cannonisation marked in Kuwait.
CANONISATION OF PADRE PIO.
On 16th of this month, Sunday, at Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait City main
Catholic Church, the devotees of Padre Pio attended in good number the
Eucharistic celebration at 7.45 in the evening, the Holy Mass was celebrated
by the Bishop of Kuwait Mongs. Frances Michallef. This was to mark the
cannonisation of Padre Pio about which lot has been read in this forum and
elsewhere recently. In Kuwait there is a good number of devotees of Padre
Pio. who came forward to celebrate this holy and glorious event and after
the Mass Holy Picture Souvenirs of Padre Pio were distributed along with
snacks to all those who attended the Holy Mass.
Earlier on the same day at 3.30 p.m. during the Konkani Mass which was
celebrated by the visiting Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Agra but originally
from Orlim Salcette in his homily elucidated the holy life of Padre Pio and
the miracles He performed about which many are still blind and deaf and yet
they harp on negative aspects of the holiness of Padre Pio. I only hope
Padre Pio will forgive them for they know not what they are expressing.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:46 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
>From IndiaCyberMed mailing list...
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Anyone tried this?
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1478/c
A paediatric online diagnostic tool called Isabel was launched at the Royal
College of Physicians in London this week.
The tool has been developed by a charity, also known as Isabel, which was
launched by Charlotte and Jason Maude, whose daughter Isabel almost died
at age 3 years of necrotising fasciitis as a complication of chicken pox,
after it was missed by a series of doctors. The diagnostic tool was set up
with help from paediatric intensive care consultant Joseph Britto at St
Mary's Hospital in London, who helped to save Isabel's life.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:42:10 +0530
From: "Joel D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] 25 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
25 June 2002
SIOLIM'S GRAND "SAO JOAO" SCENE: "Viva Sao Joao" chant was heard virtually
all over Siolim yesterday as the riverine village celebrated the feast of
St John with traditional fervour. The colourful Sao Joao Traditional Boat
Parade, Pietro's pure Goan music, Wilson-Sharon's songs and jokes, and the
felicitation of the boat groups formed the highlights of the day. At
Fernandes vaddo, it was a whole-day affair. But the traditional, Goan fun
and festivity was witnessed at Gaunsavaddo. Some details and pictures at
http://www.goacom.com/news/clippings/SaoJoao2002/Sao%20Joao.html
"Brazillian Samba", led by Dominic D'Souza of Pequeno Chinvar, Anjuna,
bagged the first prize of Rs.3000. The second and third prizes went to Zhor
Boys of Anjuna and FIFA World Cup by Vaddy Boys. John of Fenson & Johnson,
Badem, received a special prize for being a consistent participant in the
boat festival for several years. Their tableau depicts different of facets
of St John's life.
MHADEI: CM SMELLS A 'RAT': The State government has demanded the setting up
of a Judicial Commission to inquire into the clearance given by Central
Water Commission in principle to Karnataka to divert 7.56 TMC of water for
Khalsa-Haltar Nall Project and Bhandur Nallah Project to Malaprabha river
without any reference to Goa government. Addressing reporters, Chief
Minister Manohar Parrikar said that the letter, issued by CWC Secretary on
the eve of his retirement to Karnataka government permitting such diversion
of water, is dubious in nature and cannot be held valid under any
circumstances. (GT)
BJP MINISTERS CORNER PLUM PORTFOLIOS: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar
conducted the much-awaited exercise of allocating additional portfolios to
his ministers and has apparently neutralized the "hurt feelings" from
within his own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ranks. (H)
MINISTERS & PORTFOLIOS: MANOHAR PARRIKAR (Chief Minister): Home, Finance,
Education, Personnel, General Administration, Information & Fisheries;
DIGAMBAR KAMAT: Power, Urban Development, Mine; DR SURESH AMONKAR: Health,
Labour, Employment, Factory & Boilers; RAMKRISHNA DHAVLIKAR: PWD, Archives,
Archaeology, Museums; MANOHAR AZGAONKAR: Panchayat Raj, Civil Supply,
Housing Board; RAMRAO DESSAI: Industry, Art and Culture, Social Welfare;
PANDURANG MADKAIKAR: Transport, Revenue; FILIPE NERI RODRIGUES: Water
Resources, RDA, Weights & Measures; FRANCIS D'SOUZA: Information
Technology, Law and Judiciary, Legislative Affairs; BABUSH MONSERATTE: Town
& Country Planning and Provedoria; VINAY TENDULKAR: Forest, Co-operation;
DAYANAND MANDREKAR: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services;
MICCKY PACHECO: Tourism, Sports, Youth Affairs.
COPS NOW 'MICE' IN FRONT OF MICKKY: Before the elections Miccky Pacheco
found himself on the wrong side of the law. After the election the tables
were turned and the cops found themselves on the wrong side of the Tourism
Minister. (GT)
PACHECO'S PASSPORT RELEASED: The District and Session Judge, Mr Nelson
Britto, has ordered the authorities to hand over the passport of Mickky
Pacheco, the Tourism minister. It may be recalled that the Colva police had
registered an offence against Mr Pacheco and others for allegedly damaging
a restaurant at Betalbatim. (NT)
CUT-OFF AGE FOR STD I: The State government will amend the Goa Education
Act to retain the cut-off age for admission to the first standard at
5-and-half years instead of six. (H)
ONE DROWNED AT VERLA-CANCA: At Verla-Canca 17-year-old boy, Vishal
Saudagar, got drowned when he took a plunge into a quarry around 5 pm
yesterday evening. Being the "Sao Joao" day he had gone for a swim along
with one of his friends.
WATERY GRAVE: According to Cuncolim police, Placido Leitao was celebrating
San Joao and keeping up with the tradition of taking a dip, jumped in a
pond, but never surfaced again. (GT)
WOMAN RESCUED: A middle-aged married woman was rescued from drowning by a
trawler-hand yesterday morning. The woman, who had jumped from the Panjim
end of the new Mandovi bridge, was sighted by a labourer aboard a trawler
incidentally passing by. (H)
BODY FOUND: A body of a male person aged around 45 was recovered from an
abandoned house in Tariwada in Bogda. (NT)
DECOMPOSED BODY RECOVERED: A highly decomposed body was recovered from Dona
Paula waters yesterday evening. (NT)
REGULARISATION OF SLEEPER COACHES: The issue of operation of sleeper
coaches on some inter-state routes, which had kicked up a controversy after
the Transport department had raided the vehicles, is now likely to be
resolved with the government thinking in terms of regularizing this mode. (GT)
"VATTA POORNIMA": Daily "Herald" today features a picture of a Hindu woman,
who ties thread around a banyan tree as she wishes for the same husband for
her next seven lives on the occasion of "Vatta Poornima" at Porvorim on
Monday (June 24).
ROAD AT ANMOD GHATT TURNS DANGEROUS: A 10-kilometre stretch of road at
Anmod Ghat has turned perilous, following the collapse of the retaining
walls at a few places due to the recent incessant showers. (H)
PINEAPPLES FALL PREY TO POLLUTION: The size of pineapples grown nearby the
Kundaim industrial estate has reduced drastically. And the reason many
pineapple growers cite is due to pollution caused by "polluting industries"
in the industrial estate. (GT)
MOBILE PHONE, INTERNET SERVICES TO COST LESS: The mobile phone and internet
services will go cheaper in Goa along with the other states of the country
shortly after the completion of works of laying the underground cables for
which the excavation of the trenches was being carried out along the
National Highway 17. (NT)
ONCE GRUDGING VENDORS�: A year back on June 25, when Margao's market was
shifted to the newly constructed SGPDA complex, the vendors seethed over
the move and alleged it would rundown their business. But today, while
celebrating the first anniversary of their shifting, the vendors sing a
different tune. They themselves have organised a programme to celebrate
their one-year in the complex. (NT)
TAMIL CLASSIC TRANSLATED: Mr N Purushothama Mallaya, honorary secretary of
Konkani Bhasha Prachar Sabha, has translated into Konkani in verses all the
1,350 couplets of "Tirukkural" believe to be 2,000 years old and written by
Saint Tiruvalluvar, and brought out in book form. (NT)
SUZETTE WINS TRIP TO FRANCE: Suzette Fernandes-Dias has won a trip for two
to France and a week's stay at Odeon Hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris,
for her poem "Quo Vadi". She is a pedagogical co-ordinator of Alliance
Francaise de Goa. The poem was written for a contest organised by Alliance
Francaise to mark the second birth centenary of Victor Hugo. (H)
TANZANIA TRAIN MISHAP: At least 200 people were killed and many injured on
Monday when a passenger train derailed in central Tanzania. (from AFT Report)
D E A T H S
24 June: Divar: GREGORIO AUGUSTO AZAVEDO (Auto Popular, Mapusa):
husband of Rosy, father of Eusebio/Sincleta, Walter/Maria, William/Sarina,
Wringo/Maria, Weena/Neilson.
24 June: Chandor: POSSIANO ANTAO, son of late Joaquim/late Pionila,
brother/brother-in-law of late Michael/Estrelina, late Alba/Joaquim, late
Xaverito/Rosaria, Binaca.
24 June: Margao-Dovandem: FILOMENA FERNANDES, wife of late Marcelino,
mother of late Lucrencia/Antonio, Antonio/Monica, late John/Fatima,
Domnic/Rosalina, Marianni/Prabhu, Minguel/Lily, Concessao/late Polly,
Baptist/Socorina.
24 June: Cansaulim: PIEDADE ALMEIDA, wife of Anthony, mother of
Aliston, Alex and Anushka.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 27.0 deg C at 7.30 am at Assagao.
Max temp: 30.7 deg C; Humidity: 81 per cent. (Panjim yesterday)
Rainfall so far: 1100.8 mm
Weather: Another dry morning today.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT=Gomantak Times
Daily Goacom News Clippings also at: http://www.goacom.com/news
Website: http://www.goacom.com
Webzine: http://www.goacom.com/goanow
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:26:43 +0530
From: "Vicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Parrikar uses Goa funds to boost RSS image in Gujarat
from deccan herald
Parrikar uses Goa funds to boost RSS image in Gujarat
>From Devika Sequeira
DH News Service
PANAJI, June 20
Most people in Goa would have trouble finding Devgad village on the map of Gujarat.
But the fact is that their contributions, after the Gujarat earthquake, helped rebuild
the dusty township 90 kms away from Rajkot.
Which is why many donors are now upset to discover that the Goa Chief Minister's
Relief Fund-Gujarat was entrusted entirely to the Rashtriya Swaymsevak Sangh (RSS) by
Mr Manohar Parrikar, and the that the rebuilt township has been dedicated to RSS
'pracharak' Laxmanrao Inamdar.
"These funds were collected from the public, but are being treated like the personal
funds of the BJP. We would like an account of how they have been utilised," Congress
spokesman Jitendra Deshprabhu told Deccan Herald.
Earlier this week, Mr Parrikar, accompanied by a handful of journalists close to him
and a group of RSS and BJP members, flew in to a red carpet welcome from Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi, a personal friend, to inaugurate the Goa-sponsored 'Laxmanrao
Inamdar' township at Devgad.
Goa has pitched in Rs 2.2 crore of the Rs 4.2 crore rehab project. Public donations to
the chief minister's fund accounted for Rs 1.40 crore of the total fund, Rs 26 lakh
came from a local newspaper collection and the rest came from the Goa government.
The rebuilt town has 204 houses, besides a school, a panchayat ghar, a dispensary, a
temple and a crematorium. The work was routed through the RSS affiliate Seva Bharati.
In his speech that day Mr Parrikar said he was glad that Goan contribution had gone
into "safe hands".
Mr Modi, on the other hand, is reported to have used the occasion to lash out at the
Congress for using the Gujarat violence in its election campaign in Goa. "The BJP
victory in Goa is a victory for Gujarat," he is quoted as having said, promising to
use this as his election slogan in the impending poll in his state./ends
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:57:51 GMT
From: Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Re: Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
1. Article and photograph of Dr Britto: Goa Today Jan 2002 at
http://www.goacom.com/goatoday/2002/jan/spotlight.html
Headline: Doctor with a Mission
London-based topnotch Goan pediatrician Dr Joseph Britto was down in
Goa last month to catalyze the setting up of mobile intensive care units
for children in the State. Following his keynote address on Inter-Hospital
Transfer of critically ill Children at the 16th Asia Pacific Congress on
Diseases of the Chest, he tirelessly played the role of a motivator by
driving the players of the paradigm. A Consultant in Pediatric Intensive
Care at St Mary's Hospital, London.
Dr Britto led a study that found that the death rate of critically ill
children referred to the pediatric intensive care unit of major hospitals
in the country plummeted from 23 to 2 per cent. An alumnus of Grant Medical
College, Mumbai, he offers an internet related clinical decision system via
www.isabel.org.uk, which gives relevant differential diagnosis within
seconds once one puts in a set of clinical features.
2. Article and photograph of Dr Britto 17 June at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2049000/2049248.stm
3. The web tool referred to is at http://www.isabel.org.uk/
Understandably, it is available for health professionals only. However, do
check the site for information about isabel.
Eddie Fernandes
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Frederick Noronha writes:
> >From IndiaCyberMed mailing list...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Anyone tried this?
> http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1478/c
> A paediatric online diagnostic tool called Isabel was launched at the Royal
> College of Physicians in London this week.
>
> The tool has been developed by a charity, also known as Isabel, which was
> launched by Charlotte and Jason Maude, whose daughter Isabel almost died
> at age 3 years of necrotising fasciitis as a complication of chicken pox,
> after it was missed by a series of doctors. The diagnostic tool was set up
> with help from paediatric intensive care consultant Joseph Britto at St
> Mary's Hospital in London, who helped to save Isabel's life.
>
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