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Goa Sudharop Annual Awards
January 5, 2011 - 3:45 - 6:30pm
Hotel Mandovi, Panaji, Goa
Details at: http://bit.ly/GoaSudharop2011
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Incidentally at current price of Rs 2000 per gm, the value of 6000 mt gold
worked out to Rs 12 lac crores (Rs 12000 billion) and not 1.2 lac crores (Rs
1200 billion) as appearing in most newspapers. Perhaps blindened by the
figure, reporters swallowed one zero.
Just to compare this money to iron ore riches and Goa economy: It is twice the
value (at current rates) of Goa's 1000 million ton iron ore reserves. It is
equivalent to 200 years budget (at current year outlay) of entire Goa state.
Rajendra
PANAJI: Almost 6,000 metric tonne of secondary gold deposits worth about Rs
1,20,000 crore lie just 60 metres below the ground spread over 40,000 hectares
of land in North Goa, noted Goan microbiologist NandkumarKamat claimed in
an announcement on Monday.
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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services'
Copies now available at:
GOA: Literati (2277740), Other India (2263306), Broadway (6647038),
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ONLINE (worldwide delivery): http://www.ritanabooks.com/booksdistri.htm,
http://goa1556.goa-india.org
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