GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS August 11, 2002 ZUARI TOLD TO SUBMIT ACTION PLAN: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has directed the Zuari Industries Limited to submit an urgent report on the leakage and suspend the operation of the Naptha pipeline till comprehensive testing was done and the defects remedied. (H)
LEAK PLUGGED: The Zuari officials and fire brigade personnel finally managed to detect the leakage of Naphtha at around 2 am yesterday at Alto Dabolim. The leakage was due to corrosion of the pipeline. (WE-GT) CUSTOM OFFICIAL'S PREMISES RAIDED: As part of nationwide raids on officials of Customs, Income-Tax, Indian Railways and other Central government establishments, the Central Bureau of Investigations raided six premises of a senior Customs official in the State and in Mumbai, and seized disproportionate property worth around Rs.70 lakh, to his known source of income. (NT) COMMITTED TO COALITION POLITICS: BJP national president Venkaiah Naidu, speaking in Panjim yesterday, stated that the party is committed to the politics of coalition. He thanked the UGDP and MGP for joining hands with the BJP in Goa to end the reign of defections in the State. (H) PLEA TO REDUCE FISHING BAN PERIOD: At a meeting of the Goa Fishing Boat Owners Association it has decided to file a petition before the Panjim bench of the Bombay High Court seeking total ban on fishing activity during the breeding season and ask the government to reduce the ban period to 45 days. Adv Aires Rodrigues, who also addressed the meeting, assured the boat owners that he would render all assistance and help them fight for their cause. (H) NO DISPUTES PENDING: The president of Consumers Dispute Redressal Forum (North Goa), Mr YS Raghavendar Rao, has denied that cases before the district forum are pending for disposal. (NT) NEIGHBOUR DUPED IN SANTA CRUZ: Police sources informed that Julius Araujo, of Santa Cruz, allegedly duped his neighbour Amorin Barreto to the tune of Rs.55,000, luring him with a fake canteen contract at the Kala Academy premises. Araujo gained Amorin's confidence by introducing him to SV Rane, member secretary of the Kala Academy, a dummy again, sources said. (H) POLICE SEEK PEOPLE'S HELP: Police has sought the co-operation of citizens in curbing the crime rate in the State by providing necessary information as and when required. At an interactive meet held at the police headquarters in Margao, citizens made various suggestions to curtail the criminal activities. (NT) COMPUTER ENGG STUDENTS: The ongoing agitation of the final year computer engineering students of Fr Agnel Polytechnic, Verna, entered the second phase with the affected students sitting on a hunger strike at the Panaji jetty. The students were upset since their earlier representations to the Director of Technical Education, Porvorim, failed to yield any results. (NT) CANACONA IN DARKNESS: The entire Canacona taluka was reeling in darkness for 16 hours since Friday night due to problems in the feeder line and snapping off of HT Line at Sadolxem. (H) In Assagao, electricity supply seems to be a perpetual problem come rain or sunshine, Congress or BJP's coalition. LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED: An Electricity Department employee, Digambar Mahale (45), died on the spot when he came in contact with a live wire at Old Goa yesterday. (WE-GT) FALEIRO'S ASSURANCE: Navelim MLA Luizinho Faleiro has assured a sum of Rs.10,000 for the anti-rabies camps for the villages of Carmona and Cavelossim. (H) KONKANI AND PANDORA'S BOX: "A developed language is a pre-requisite for a developed society. It is therefore absurd to search for Goa's Asmitai or identity in Konkani, which is nothing but an undeveloped form of Marathi, according to the principles of the science of language. Marathi is India's third great and one of the major languages in the world. Denial to it its rightful claim in Official Language Act, 1987, was a serious matter." (Jaisinghrao V Rane in Panorama-NT) BASTORA UNION LONDON: The village of Bastora shares their patron-St Cajetan-with Assagao. The Bastora Union in London will celebrate the feast of their Patron Saint Cajetan on Sunday, August 18, at Archbishop Lanfranc School Hall, Mitcham Road, Croydon CR9 3AS amidst "World Goa Day Celebrations", with Holy Mass at 12.45 pm, followed by a Social until 8 pm. Bastora Union have a tiny website at http://www.bastora.com/ One gets to know about these things through the UK Newsletter prepared by "Eddie Fernandes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] The latest issue also mentions about the Annual Social of Chorao-UK Annual social (feast of St Baretholomew on August 24 at Merton Hall Kingston Rd, London SW19, with Mass at 4.30 pm followed by social. Contact Claver 020 8672 4562/ Mervyn 020 8689 2970. KONKANI CONTEST: The Goan Cultural Society, UK, will hold its Konkani Contest on 11 August at 3.00 pm at Merton Hall, Kingston Road, S. Wimbledon. This nostalgic show of your old time favourites will be performed by children. Contact: Bella 020 8352 0373, Rosy 020 8352 9450, Ida 020 8881 2921. ("Eddie Fernandes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]) IT'S LORNA: Sinaris have backed Lawrence de Tiracol's twenty-fifth audio presentation "Lorna Forever�Tuzo Mog", a classic assemblage of Konkani numbers. Almost all songs sung by Lorna on this audio had been recorded on music records by Chris Perry, although three of which were not sung by her then. Keeping company with Lorna are Sudhesh Bhosle, Young Chico and Lawrence de Tiracol. (WE-GT) FLIGHT FROM LISBON TO GOA: "On November 19, 1930, twenty-seven years after the epoch-making flight of Wright brothers, landed on Goan soil the eventful flight, the first successful flight from Lisbon to Goa. This adventurous trip began on November 1 of the same year from Amadora, a city seven kms away from Lisbon. During the flight the pilots made various stops along the route. It was not a 17 hours flight, like today, but an experimental 19 days voyage. It took so long because of unexpected delays along the route." (Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues in Memoirs, Herald-Mirror) SHARON TOPS: Sharon Nisha Pinto has topped in Master of Financial Services examination from the Goa University with 71 per cent aggregate. (H) "JEEVAN TV", a Christian multilingual TV channel floated by the Bishops of all the churches in India, can now be viewed by the Goan audiences. At the forefront of making this dream of the church come true has been the Divine Retreat Centre, Kerala. (H) GREETINGS TO ALL OUR CO-VILLAGERS FROM ASSAGAO on the occasion of the feast of our Patron, St Cajetan. We celebrated the feast today with a solemn high mass at 10.00 am. There is a football "Kazari-Ankvar" football match at the school ground in the evening. Later on, at around 6.00 pm there is whistdrive at the parish gallery. S P O R T S INDIA WIN LG CUP: India rallied brilliantly to beat hosts Vietnam 3-2 in an exciting final to lift the L Cup 2002 football title, at the Thong Nhat Stadium, in Ho Chi Minh City on August 10. The triumph in the six-team tournament earned the Indian team $16,000. (PTI report in Herald) DERECK, REMY IN TITLE CLASH: Former national champion Dereck Menezes and current champion Remy Fernandes were heading for a photo finish, with both the stalwarts being tied on 11 points at the end of the 10th race on the penultimate day of the National Boardsailing Championships mistral and open class races of Mandovi in Panaji. (NT) D E A T H S 10 Aug: Velim-Vancamoroda: ESCOLASTICA PEREIRA, wife of Sebastiao Pereira, mother of late Cecilia Alfonso/late Salvador, Shamin, Clara, Anthony and Leena. 09 Aug: Nuvem: NIRMALA MENDONZA (Nimmi), wife of Derrick, mother of Christine and Charmaine. 06 Aug: Chimbel: CAETANO PEREIRA, husband of Alcina, father of Marian, Christopher/Ingrid, Norman, Carl/Jacqueline. 10 Aug: Salvador do Mundo-Salem: LUIZA MARIA FERNANDES, wife of late Sebastian, mother of Anafelicia/late Francis, Rita/late Purificacao, Damacian/late Olivia, Leo/Alsu, Fidelis/Sabina, Joseph/Eugenia, Nazar/Domnica, Albert/Meena. G O A W E A T H E R Temp: 24.0 deg C (75.2 deg F) at Assagao at 7.30 am today. Max temp: 27.6 deg C, Humidity: 100%, Rainfall 1719.2 mm (Yesterday) Weather: It rained, quite heavily, but with good intervals in between. Today's morning has been dry so far. 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