GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
September 21, 2002
DACOITS STRIKE MARGAO: In a daring daylight dacoity, six to seven unmasked
dacoits armed with countrymade revolvers and knives swooped down on the
house of businessman, Tajudin Noorani at Aquem in Margao shortly after dawn
on Friday and looted cash, gold and diamonds worth over Rs.6 lakh. (H)
HANDIWORK OF MUMBAI GANG: Even as a red alert stands issued to nab the
dacoits, the police believe that the dacoity is the handiwork of a
professional gang operating in metropolitan cities like Mumbai. Terming the
incident as linked to the railways, Supdt of Police (South) Shukla said the
dacoity has given a different dimension to such offences. (H)
KID'S DEATH ON HOSPICIO TERRACE: Mystery shrouds the death of a
four-year-old girl, who was found dead on the terrace of Hospicio hospital
in Margao on September 19. (H)
FOREIGNER FOUND DEAD: A 34-year-old foreignerPeter Krollwas found dead
under mysterious circumstances at his bungalow located near the National
Institute of Oceanography at Dona Paula. (H)
CALANGUTE CITIZENS TO HONOUR BRUNO: This year's Arjuna awardee in football,
Bruno Coutinho, will be felicitated tomorrow by the citizens of Calangute
at the football ground. The program will kick off with a motorcade to be
flagged off from Calangute church at 3.30 pm before wending its way through
the various wards of Calangute, accompanied by live music from a 22-mnember
brass band. (GT)
MADEI: 'IN-PRINCIPLE' NOD IN ABEYANCE: The controversial letter issued by
the Central Water Commission to the Karnataka government giving them "in
principle" clearance for diversion of 7.56 TMC of water from the Madei
basin to Malaprabha, has been kept in abeyance. (H)
TWO HOURS WORK ON OCT 2: Government servants will have to grace their
offices for two hours on Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), which will also serve
as the culminating day of a 15-day long cleanliness drive in their
respective offices. (H)
MUCB'S MULTI-STATE STATUS: With the Central Registrar of Co-operative
Societies unable to intervene directly, the solution to the Mapusa Urban
Co-operative Bank imbroglio is left to be decided by the general body of
the bank. (H)
DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE: The Movement of Amity Towards Roads in Goa (MAARG)
under the banner of war against rubbish (WAR) has organised a session on
"how to join hands to fight the menace of garbage", on October 6 at the
Margao Municipal Hall. (NT)
PARISH PLAINT: After a gap of three days the parish priest of St Andrew's
Church in Vasco yesterday filed a complaint with the Vasco police, in
connection with the vandalism at the church cemetery. (H)
DOGS ELECTROCUTED: Four dogs were feasting on the carcass of a dead bull at
Suke-Kulan in Dhargal, when a live wire snapped and fell on the dogs,
electrocuting them on the spot. (H)
ORPHANAGES CONFERENCE: The inaugural ceremony of the two-day conference of
representatives of orphanages in India will be held today at 9.30 am in the
precincts of Shree Shantadurga Devasthan Hall at Kavale, Ponda. (GT)
FATAL ACCIDENT: Mr Kushali Naik, a resident of Vasco, died in a fatal
acceded reported at Sancoale on Thursday. The deceased dashed against an
electric pole while riding his two-wheeler from Vasco to Verna. (NT)
GOA: PHARMACEUTICAL CAPITAL: While inaugurating a seminar of the
Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India at the Kala Academy
yesterday, Industries Minister Ramrao Dessai said that in Goa there are
many pharmaceutical units and efforts are to on to make Goa the
pharmaceutical capital of India. (H)
CAT SCAN AT HOSPICIO: Hospicio will get the much awaited CAT scan during
this calendar year even as the Health Ministry has claimed that it has
sanctioned additional staff to tide over the shortage of personnel at this
South Goa premier hospital. (H)
GLOBAL BIRD WATCHING SITE AT CARAMBOLIM: After being suffocated by the
overgrowth of the Salvinia Molesta weed for more than a couple of years,
the Carambolim lake, an international bird-watching site, has received a
new lease of life. A farmers' initiative has resulted in purging the unique
wetland of the troublesome weed, which throttled aquatic life and deprived
the winter visitors of their feed during their sojourn to escape the cold
climes back home. (GT)
KNOWING YOUR KHAZAN KHAZANA: My simple and new definition of the khazan
land from a Goan ecological perspective is: "Low-lying, mangrove-fringed,
coastal saline lands (mesohaline), drained by the tidal estuaries which
have been subjected to planned and contour-integrated
topo-hydro-engineering by the local communities to produce reasonable
sustainable productive agro-ecological and agro-economic system." (NANKUMAR
KAMAT IN Zest-NT)
GOA'S ANIMAL POPULATION: Though there has been a marginal rise in the
population of leopards, from 25 to 41, during the last five years in Goan
jungles, there is a decrease in the number of gaurs, spotted deer, barking
deer, mouse deer and other animals compared to the last census in 1997.
(Umesh Mahambre in NT)
HELD FOR TRESPASSING: Santan Oliveira and Santan Dias, both from Merces,
have been arrested by Mapusa police for trespassing into the house of a
businessman, besides allegedly extorting money from him. (H)
SHRADHA PERUNAL OF BISHOP ALVARES: St Mary's Orthodox Syrian Church,
Ribandar, will celebrate the 79th Shradha Perunal of the late Bishop
Alvares Mar Julius from September 22 to September 29. (NT)
VERODIANO AWARD FOR LATE FR BARRETO: The 2002 Vincent Xavier Verodiano
Award has been posthumously conferred on Fr Lourdino Barreto in recognition
of his creative interpretation of western and classical Indian music... In
1999, a music school was set up in Fr Lourdino's memory in his hometown of
Galgibaga, by his brother, John Francis Barreto. (GT)
S P O R T S
GOAN BOXERS FOR INTERNATIONAL MEET: Two Goan boxersPremanand Gaonkar and
Praveen Shirodkarhave been selected by the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation
to represent India at the Regatta boxing championship to be held in
Mauritius on September 28. (H)
D E A T H S
20 Sept: Chicalim: VINCENT RODRIGUES, husband of Maria Magdalena,
father of Vilinda and Melwyn.
20 Sept: Bogmalo: GLEASON FERNANDES, son of Camilo (Anjuna)/Remediana
(Bogmalo), brother of Clifford/Maria (Dubai) Ruth/Jack (Kuwait),
William/Bessy (Dubai).
20 Sept: Raia: ROSARIO FERNANDES, husband of Deodita, father of Sleeton
and Anisha.
20 Sept: Marcela: SURENDRA NARAYAN AMONKAR, husband of Neelabai, father
of Narayan and Smita Manguesh Vaglo.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 23.4 deg C (74.1 deg F) at Assagao at 7.30 am today.
Max temp: 32.1 deg C, Humidity: 78%, Rainfall 2109.5 mm (Yesterday)
Weather: Fine weather.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, WE-GT=Weekender-Gomantak Times
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