GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS 04 July 2003 TALEIGAO CASE: JUDGE RAPS COPS: North Goa District and Sessions Judge AD Salkar stated that the act of parading two persons in the Taleigao case in semi-nude condition with handcuffs in public was "barbaric, against all norms of decency and in utter violation of human rights and human dignity". The Sessions Court granted conditional bail to Kamlesh Naik Mangueshkar and Neelesh Mangueshkar, who were alleged stripped and paraded at Taleigao by the police. (GT)
GOVT FAILS TO CONTROL CRZ VIOLATIONS: Though Goa's coastline is well protected by the CRZ provisions barring any construction within 500 metres of the High Tide Line, the aspect involving monitoring of the same by district level authorities as directed by the High Court in the year 2000 seems to be a total failure. (H) GOAN BUS COLLIDES WITH A TRUCK: As many as 11 passengers were injured when an inter-state bus collided with a truck along the National Highway and near the border checkpost at Patradevi on Thursday night. All the 11 injured passengers were shifted to the Asilo hospital at Mapusa. (H) PANAJI RECORDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF MALARIA CASES: The capital city recorded 52 per cent (2249) of the total malaria cases reported in the state from January to May 2003, according to statistics presented by the malaria cell of the Directorate of Health Services. (NT) 10 MINE WORKERS INJURED: The perilous Sanvordem-Dabal road lived up to its dreaded reputation, when 10 mine workers were injured after a private bus in which they were traveling, went of the road on Wednesday night. (H) VISHAL MEHTA DENIED BAIL: Vishal Mehta, accused in the alleged gang-rape of a college girl, was denied bail by the Bombay High Court at Goa, yesterday. Mehta had appealed for bail on the ground that he had to travel to Mumbai to secure admission for higher education. While dismissing his bail application, the court gave Mehta permission to travel to Mumbai with a police escort. (GT) VASCO WOMAN ASSAULTED: One Vincia Diego Fernandes (33) of New Vaddem in Vasco was allegedly assaulted by four persons, following a property related dispute. (H) BODY FOUND: The body of an elderly man was found in the Arabian Sea off Anjuna on Thursday. Police believe the deceased is a Goan. (H) PLAINT AGAINST SARPANCH: Two panchas of Salvador of Mundo panchayat, Prabhakar Naik and Thereza Fernandes, filed a petition with the Mapusa Block Development Officer on June 30, accusing Sarpanch Govind V Nagvekar and the panchayat secretary for having acted in contravention of the Goa Panchayat Raj Act. (GT) GOLD ROBBED: Unknown culprits decamped with gold ornaments worth Rs.32,000 from the house of one Pooja Tamhankar in Vasco yesterday afternoon. (GT) CENTRES FOR PUBLIC REDRESSAL: CM Manohar Parrikar has said his government will set up "call centres" to tone up the mechanism for redressal of public grievances in the next three to four months. In an informal chat with newsmen, he said these centres will enable a citizen from any corner of the State to directly correspond with the Panjim centre and get to the status of his complaint. (H) INTEREST-FREE LOANS FOR STUDENTS: The government yesterday declared the intricacies of the long awaited "Scheme for Grant of Interest Free Loans for Higher Education". The scheme was announced last year but had developed some teething problems with respect to the appointment of an agency, which would finally recover the money from the students, the mode of repayment, etc. (GT) INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITEIS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that all government run primary schools will be equipped with necessary infrastructure facilities such as toilets, bathroom, playground, reading material, audio visual equipment and other facilities during the next two years. He was speaking as the chief guest after inaugurating the Government Primary School building at Gogol in Margao. (GT) ROW OVER SCHOOL: A government construction cannot be illegal, said Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, while commenting on the controversy over the Urdu school inaugurated by him at Gogol Housing Board. CM said that irregularities if any would be corrected. (GT) ALORNA FORT: The state government has decided to repair and develop the Alorna fort on the banks of Chapora river, near Dhargalim, as a tourist spot. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar It was decided to acquire the surrounding area admeasuring 94,1000 sq m around the fort to develop the spot, which will comprise of five tourist cottages, a restaurant and a ramp with necessary access road for boating facilities in the river. (GT) JP TO CONTEST IN GOA: The National Working President of the Janata Party, Dr Vijay Mallya, yesterday announced that his party would contest both the parliamentary seats from Goa in the elections likely to be held next year and stated that with the focus on youth empowerment, Janata Party (JP) would be the only alternative to the BJP and the Congress in the State. (H) AITUC MEET TODAY: The national council of the All India Trade Union Congress will be meeting at Margao, from today, to chalk out a strategy to deal with the Central government's economic policies. (GT) THREE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS CLEARED: The High Powered Coordination Committee yesterday cleared three industrial projects with a total investment of about Rs.43 crore and employment potential of 330 persons. Industries Minister Ramrao Dessai told reporters that the HPCC declared the projects submitted by M/s Amitech Pipes Systems Private Ltd, M/s Ciba Speciality Chemicals and M/s Excel Caps. (GT) FARMERS PREFER HIGH-YIELDING VARIETY: Deviating from their traditional varieties, farmers in Goa are going in for high-yielding variety of seems for paddy cultivation. This is evident from the fact that nearly 80 per cent of the cultivable land is being brought under the new varieties. (NT) SMART CARDS: The State Government plans to issue Smart Cards to around 2 lakh employees by the year-end. Shortly, many other trades/establishments will be covered. (H) KAIGA RECORDS HIGHEST PRODUCTION: Kaiga Atomic Energy Generating Station has recorded the highest production for the last three months. Kaiga I and II produced 963.808 million units of electricity in the first three months of the new financial year. (GT) EDUCATIVE CDS: Interactive educational software, while commonplace in most homes in urban India, is almost non-existent in stores in the State. Most CD and bookstore owners say there simply isn't the volume to run a viable business in interactive CDs in Goa. (Gasper D'Souza in NT) TRAGIC END TO TIATRIST VITORINO: The tiatr fraternity in the Sate was plunged into grief, when noted tiatrist Vitorino Mascarenhas of Naikavaddo, Calangute, allegedly committed suicide sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. He was 32. Vitorino was admitted to a private hospital in Calangute as he was suffering from malaria. He was reportedly under depression. "Vitorino was a very hardworking artiste and had done a three-year course in tiatr acting at the Kala Academy in Panjim," informed popular Konkani playwright Roseferns. (H) S P O R T S WIN FOR FC SIOLIM: FC Siolim scored a 6-5 sudden-death tie-breaker victory over United Boys of Dando, Colva, to book a place into the quarter finals of the Fraxier Trophy tournament at St John Baptist ground, Benaulim. (GT) GT EDITOR STRESSES ON EXCELLENCE: Gomantak Times editor Pramod Khandeparker has exhorted sports executives to strive for achieving excellence in management of sports by imbibing qualities like integrity, honesty and commitment for the sake of promoting national integration. He was addressing a sports seminar at the Department of Sports at Campal, Panaji. (GT) D E A T H S 03 July: Velim: ASSUCENA COLACO, wife of late Fanchu, mother of Eutemia/Eddie, Longuinho/Agnes, Massilon/Freeda, Baylon/Nancy, Bartolomeu/Juliet, Nicefro/Gillu, Elva/Rose, Milda/Renny. 03 July: Tonca-Panjim: JOHN LOBO, husband of Olga, father of Jennifer/Babush Monserrate, grandfather of Rohit and Amit. 03 July: Santa Cruz: PRATAPRAO SHRINIVAS BAKAL (Ex-MLA), husband of Vasanti, father of Veena, Vinay, Rajkashri, Santosh. G O A W E A T H E R Temp: 26.2 deg C (79.2 deg F) at 08.00 am in Assagao. Max Temp: 29.8 deg C, Min Temp: 23.4 deg C; Humidity: 100% (Official figures for yesterday) Rainfall so far: 1103.9 mm Weather: Yesterday was a rather wet day in Goa, raining from mid-day till late in the evening. Early morning was comparatively dry. But the sky is already darkening for a good downpour. Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT= Gomantak Times JOEL D'SOUZA, Assagao-Goa-India. Website: www.goacom.com Goacom News Clippings at: http://www.goacom.com/news Webzine "GoaNOW": http://www.goacom.com/goanow ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
