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The Goan Voice UK website is still down I am afraid ...
Children's homes become centre for child abuse
15 Jan: Organiser. Could India be the epicentre of human trafficking?
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=113&page=27
Mopa decision in PM's hand: CM
11 Jan: Navhind Times. With the fight within the ruling Congress party over
the proposed Mopa international airport reaching the Prime Minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh for a decision, the state government has decided to stay the
process for the land acquisition.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=011158
From bags to riches: the recycling project which starts in India's rubbish
tips
10 Jan: The Independent (UK). Using recycled plastic, the rag pickers of an
Indian slum are making highly desirable handbags for the boutiques of London
and New York ... Native by Native, which sells the bags in the UK, promotes
them on its website as environmentally friendly. The India Shop, another UK
supplier, even carries a picture of the waste bags the handbags are made of
on its website, and promotes them as "addressing environmental and social
issues". Full text, 1828 words at
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article337557.ece
For photographs of the range of bags see
http://www.theindiashop.co.uk/acatalog/Eco_friendly_bags.html and
http://www.trade.nativebynative.co.uk/shop/products.asp?cat=44
India: Development Of Non-Metro Airports
10 Jan: Press Information Bureau. ... The ten airports that have been
identified for development under Phase I are Goa ... In respect of Goa
Airport, the Terminal Building work will be taken up after acquisition of
land from Defence/State Govt. Authorities.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=14866
Medics are all set for Indian mercy mission
10 Jan: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, UK). A team of 10 volunteers South
Tyneside General Hospital doctors and nurses are travelling to India to
carry out vital operations. The medics, from, will fly out to Mumbai on an
11-day mercy mission at the remote rural B K Walawalkar Hospital, near Goa.
542 words.
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/eveningchronicle/tm_objectid=16568411%26method=full%26siteid=50081%26headline=medics%2dare%2dall%2dset%2dfor%2dindian%2dmercy%2dmission-name_page.html
Selective abortion in India common
10 Jan: Toronto Star. Experts are urging the Indian government to enforce
laws against prenatal gender checks - and to work to change attitudes -
after a study showed up to 10 million female fetuses may have been
selectively aborted in India over the past two decades.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1136847011417&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
Catholic Council of India grows with new identity
10 Jan. The Indian Catholic.
http://www.theindiancatholic.com/news_read.asp?nid=1001
Bollywood star sorry for smoking
10 Jan: BBC News. Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bachchan, has apologised to a
Goa-based anti-tobacco group for appearing in a film poster that depicts
him smoking a cigar.
[The BBC accompanies the text with a photograph of him lighting up! See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4599906.stm
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