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Goa Sudharop to Release Goan Seniors E-book
May 8, 2007 at 5:30pm at Hotel Mandovi, Panaji, Goa
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*** Tributes to Goa murder victim (Wiltshire Times)
TRIBUTES have been paid this week to a Trowbridge charity
worker brutally murdered in India six months after starting a
new life in the country.
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/trowbridgenews/display.var.1373177.0.tributes_to_goa_murder_victim.php
*** Goa gears up for polls (Business Standard India)
Goa's countryside is abuzz with campaigning as 185 panchayats
in the state prepare to go to polls two days later. The
panchayat polls come less than a month before the elections to
the 40-member Goa Assembly slated for June 2.
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=283371&leftnm=3&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
*** All India Konkani Sahitya Sammelan in Goa from May 4 (New
Kerala)
Panaji, May 2: The three-day 18th All India Konkani Sahitya
Sammelan will commence at Curchorem in South Goa from May 4. The
literary meet will discuss among other things, the role of
litterateurs in striking a balance between development and
environment, and ways to enrich the Konkani literature.
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=24900
*** CPI, CPI(M) to contest four assembly seats in Goa (New
Kerala)
Panaji, Apr 3: The CPI and CPI(M) have decided to contest four
seats in the June 2 elections to the Goa Legislative Assembly.
CPI state council secretary Christopher Fonseca and CPI(M) state
committee secretary Dr Vivek Monteiro discloed this at a joint
press conference here today.
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=25552
*** Panchayat elections in state today (Navhind Times)
Panaji, May 4 The voting for 185 village panchayats in Goa
starts at 8 a.m tomorrow. A total of 6,89,925 voters will cast
their votes at 851 polling stations to elect 1,429 candidates.
The polling will stop at 5 p.m tomorrow but all those in the
queue at 5 p.m will be allowed to vote.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=050518
*** Elaborate arrangements done: cops (Navhind Times)
Panaji, May 4 The Goa police are all set to hold free and fair
panchayat elections in the state. They have made elaborate
arrangements with armed policemen to have peaceful polling, said
the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr Ujjwal Mishra.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=050517
*** Campaigning ends peacefully in N Goa (Navhind Times)
Panaji, May 3 The campaigning for the May 5 panchayat elections
came to an end today and the candidates contesting the elections
to various wards of panchayats from the North Goa district have
resorted to closed door meetings to win over voters.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=050437
*** Law and order in S Goa under control (Navhind Times)
Margao, May 3 The law and order situation in the district is
under control, said the South Goa superintendent of police, Mr
Shekhar Prabhudessai while speaking to ˜The Navhind Times.
He said that no cases of election related violence were
registered by any police station in the district, he added.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=050436
*** Continental Shelf (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
Boat-shaped sofas, seashells on tables, a huge aquarium
doubling up as the bar panel. Aquifer, the new lounge at M Block
market in Greater Kailash, tries the impossible in Delhi s May:
create a beach effect. It at least reminds you of a vacation in
Goa or a furlough in exotic Borneo. We wanted this décor since
Delhi is starved of waterfront, said owner Aftab Sidhu, who was
among the quartet who ...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070504/48/6fczy.html
*** Youth held for murder of British woman in Goa (Indian
Express via Yahoo! India News)
The Goa Police have arrested a local youth for the murder of a
British woman Denise Higgins, 52. Police said the arrested
youth, Anand Kamble in his 20s, had taken money from the woman
in the past. However, the immediate motive for the murder
happens to be a heated argument between the two. Police said
Kamble was ill and possibly needed money for treatment. The
victim, said to be ...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070501/48/6f7wm.html
Compiled by Goanet News Service
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CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD
Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at:
http://www.goacom.org/casa-de-goa/noticias.html
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