[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s APRIL 14, 2005 DATELINE: GOA ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||g |||o |||a |||n |||e |||t || Issue compiled by ||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| Frederick Noronha |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copyleft Goanet 2005 Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org You may reproduce this ezine in its entirety, with credits retained. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S ISSUE: Politics and politicians have a significant role in driving a bank to near-bankruptcy. Take a look at how these worthies survive all parties and diverse political changes too... Below, some links to Konkani proverbs. WHERE HAVE CRORES OF RUPEES BEEN SKIMMED OFF TO? BY WHOM? The Herald carries a top-of-the-page headline about 'the people behind the Goa State Co-op Bank collapse'. It names the politicians involved. The GSCB has 67 branches, and while its officials have claimed doing well, some statements have also indicated that the bank is on the verge of collapse as recovery proceedings had fallen down to 63 per cent. Politicians named were former Calangute MLA Suresh Parulekar (both Congress and later BJP leader) with Rs 90 lakh loaned to his Reis Magos Pvt Ltd, Nazario Pinto, Pernem MLA Jitendra Deshprabhu with his outstanding Rs 5 lakh, Shiroda MLA Subhash Shirodkar (over Rs 1 crore outstanding for his engineering and IT colleges), the Karapur Agro with Vishwajit Rane (Pratapsing Rane's son) as managing director (outstandings Rs 1.88 crore last year). Parrikar's regime had charge-sheeted some of the bank directors including Pandurang Madkaikar. But when the BJP got an insufficient 17 seats in the 2002 assembly elections, Parrikar brought in Madkaikar and three others to cobble together a coalition government. Bank sources claimed that no attempts were made to recover loans or initiate any action against the defaulters, and hence it is now difficult to make recoveries after so many years, Herald reported. (H) New industrial estates will henceforth require environmental clearances, says an official Goa State Pollution Control Board notification, giving some details, in NT of Apr 14. Goa has been setting up a number of industrial estates, often encroaching into villages and hillsides, though some point out that many industrial units in earlier-set up estates are actually sick or unused. o Conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger emerged as front-runner in the race to find Pope John Paul II's successor. (AFP in Navhind) o A panther was caught in Borimol in Quepem taluka, after the animal got inside an unoccupied house. Villagers were panicky over the visit.NT o Congress sources say elections to Goa's five vacant assembly seats are likely to be held on May 28. (NT) o BJP Arlekar says knowledge of both languages -- Marathi and Konkani -- is essential for recruitment to the postal services. (NT) o Mormugao civic chief Deepak Naik voted out, with 11 members in the 20-seat council voting against him. (NT) o Brazilian film fest starts at Kala Academy from April 21. (NT) o Alliance Francaise to hold festival of French romantic film, Apr 16.(NT) o Mapusa's Milagres fete cancelled out of respect to the Pope. (NT) o ChildCare School, founded by Annette Pereira in 1984, has finally got permission to start Standard V from June 2005. (NT) o St Xavier's College will run a week-long course in household electrical maintenance and fault-finding from April 18 to 23.(NT) IN PILERNE, following the brutal murder of 21-year-old Ms Shraddha Parab on the local hill, Porvorim police detained 25-year-old Sanjay Kataria, a native of Rajasthan employed in an industrial unit in Pilerne. (NT) IN MOIRA, the body of a 23-year-old Vasu Bhatlekar was found hanging to a tree behind the Moira church, Wednesday morning.(NT) 24-YEAR-OLD YOUTH FROM BIHAR Sunil Kumar committed suicide by hanging himself to a cashew tree just outside the Goa Espat Ltd factory at Kundaim. (NT) COLVA POLICE arrested Rama Shankar Sahani (25), husband of Rita Sahani, found murdered at her residence in Cana-Benaulim.(NT) ON THE FIRST death anniversary of 4-year-old Venisha Fernandes, who died after falling into a pit at a construction site in Cuncolim, members of the local civic and consumers' forum and consumer activists from across Goa held a silent protest near the South Goa Collectorate on Wednesday. (NT) o Congress demands vigilance probe into Parrikar-led govt appointments.H o Taleigao will have the highest number of voters among all Goa constituencies: 27,053. Poinguinim will have just 14,870 voters. (NT) o Goa government planning to send delegation to Cannes. (H) o NCP protest bureaucrats plans to "have a holiday in Cannes". (NT) o Water problems abound in Cannes. (H) o Overflowing soak-pits order of the day in Margao. (H) o Sports Authority of Goa is selecting candidates on April 18-19 for its advanced residential coaching camps. Selections will be held at Sattari, Mapusa, Panjim, Vasco, Margao and Sanguem, under-12 to under-18. Sports include athletics, football, cricket, hockey, judo, volleyball, kabbadi, kho-kho, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS & OBITUARIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- Vegetable vendor Mehroon Nissa Tandoor (60) died after being knocked down by a rider on a Vespa scooter, who fled the spot, near the North Goa collectorate. (NT) AROSSIM: Dorinha Costa e Pereira b 1938. Wife of late Leao Pereira, mother/in-law of Tony/Estefania, Brenda/late Socorro, Jerry/Lina. CARMONA: Berta D'Costa of Xiro. Wife of late Sebastiao D'Costa, mother/ in-law of Rudolf/Filomena, Mefie/late Eufermiano Gomes, Antonio Rainho/ Maraninha, Joao Matos/Sira. QUEPEM: Emilia Goes of Condy. b 1927. Wife of late Jose Custodio Goes, mother/in-law of Franklin/Piedade, Seby/Soccorina, Adrian/Netty, Rosy Goes and grandchildren. SAO JOSE DE AREAL: Vavelyn Filomeno Pereira, b 2004. Daughter of Tony (Ashlyn Wall Effects)/Lima, sister of Ashlyn (Fatima Convent). SIRIDAO: Albert Marques. b 1960. Son of late Sebastiao and Efigina, brother/in-law of Perpetua/Jeron, Juliet/Anton, Santan/Reme, Vincent/ Celina and Philip. --------------------------------------------------------------------- GOA SPORTS --------------------------------------------------------------------- o State Bank of Travancore trouce Vasco 4-1 at Kozhikode (NFL). o Dempo tops National Football League at this stage. East Bengal second, Sporting Clube de Goa third, and Fransa fourth. (H) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CULINARY CORNER * Share your recipe with Goanet News Bytes! --------------------------------------------------------------------- COCONUT CREAM TOFFEE: 3 cups cream, 4 cups sugar, 1 large coconut ground to a paste, 1 tsp cardamon seeds, 1/2 tsp essence of rose. Mix together all ingredients and put in a pan, keep on stirring till the misture leaves the side of the pan. Put on a greased slab. Cut into pieces when cold and store in an airtight tin. [Courtesy 'Delights from Goa' by Aroona Reejhsinghani, Jaico Books, Rs 65 in India.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- KONKANI PROVERBS, SOME LINKS ONLINE --------------------------------------------------------------------- o http://www.kamat.com/library/holdings/kml2311.htm Link to S S Talmaki's *Konkani Proverbs and Idioms* publishing info. It is a work on a language , its relation to Marathi and other aligned languages and is an attempt to preserve the not much used idioms, proverbs with meaning. o http://www.colaco.net/1/AdmProverbs.htm Mum's Konkani Proverb collection. From Alfredo de Mello, 1999 o http://culture.konkani.com/Article/40_Amchigale_Gyadi__.htm Bob Kamath's collection of (Mangalorean) Konkani sayings. o http://www.sundeepbooks.com/servlet/susubjdisp?offset=125&; subname=Languages%20and%20Linguistics%20%20%20&ordby=latest Link to J Gerson Da Cunha's 'The Konkani Language and Literature' Price Rs 95 only (in India). --------------------------------------------------------------------- IT'S TODAY *** KONKANI, LANGUAGE AND MYTH MAKING --------------------------------------------------------------------- Xavier Centre will hold its next History Hour programme on April 15, at 5.30 pm on the issue of language. Dr Pratap Naik sj (executive director and founding-member of the Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr) will speak on 'Konkani: Myths and Facts'. More details from Delio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Every society creates its own myths to defend, justify its own history, language literature, culture, etc. Creation and propagation of language myths is part of language politics. Konkanis (Konkani speakers) too have created their own myths to explain the origin of their language, the importance of Devanagari script, Konkani literature prior to 1510, the population of Konkanis, Konkani in education, etc. These myths are used to control and dominate a section of the society. At times they are used to hide or suppress the existing reality of Konkani. These myths must be critically investigated based on empirical evidence to discover the reality. This presentation attempts to explain myths and facts related to Konkani. --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEATHER, ETC IN GOA --------------------------------------------------------------------- Max 33.4 Min 24.7. Humidity 77% by day. 64% by night. Pre-dawn hours of Wednesday saw a thunder-storm in places like Mandrem, Pernem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We need your help to promote Goanet, a volunteer-driven network: --------------------------------------------------------------------- ... . ... .... .. ... .... .||. Founded in 1994 || || .| '|. '' .|| || || .|...|| || by Herman |'' || || .|' || || || || || Carneiro '||||. '|..|' '|..'|' .||. ||. '|...' '|.' http://www.goanet.org .|....' --------------------------------------------------------------------- Goanet, the net-worker of all networks. Stay in touch. Send in updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
