[Goanet] MR CHIEF MINISTER, WHY DOUBLE STANDARDS?

[Aires Rodrigues]

This week Sunil Masurkar was posted as the Chief Officer of the Mormugao
Municipal Council. But this BJP controlled council opposed his appointment
as they did not want a ‘strict’ officer. The ruling councilors flexed their
political muscles and as expected Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar caved in
and cancelled Masurkar’s order. This after all his talk of Zero tolerance
to Corruption and good governance.


Earlier in March this year Sunil Masurkar was transferred as Secretary of
the Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) but he was then also very
high-handedly not allowed to join duties by the Chairman of GPSC Kurapati
Dwarakanath Row who is a relative of Manohar Parrikar.  Row did not want
Sunil Masurkar, a known no-nonsense officer fearing that he may crack the
whip on the ongoing glaring irregularities at the GPSC.


If the Mormugao Municipal Council can have a Chief Officer of its choice
why double standards by the Chief Minister in not acceding to Panaji Mayor
Surendra Furtado’s request to post a good and sincere officer devoid of
arrogance as the Commissioner of City of Panaji (CCP) .

During the UPA regime Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar kept ranting that he
was not getting officers of his choice posted in Goa. Could not the Chief
Minister himself show such courtesy  and statesmanship by giving  the Mayor
of Panaji a list of three or four officers from which he could choose a
full time Commissioner which the city so desperately needs. Just because
the CCP is not ruled by the BJP is no reason for the Chief Minister to
engage in such cheap political hypocrisy.



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Re: [Goanet] Goa Feni in North America

[Mervyn Lobo]

On Fri, 6/20/14, Cecil Pinto wrote:
1) Do not judge a Feni by its bottle. Yes, that particular brand/bottle has a 
pretty decent Feni but the price makes it not suitable for regular
drinking. I wouldn't mind paying 1/3rd the price for the same liquid in a
regular bottle. Overly fancy bottles are for tourists and showcases.

3) The 'Feni aged in oak barrels' and 'Feni in fancy bottles' and 'Feni
tasting sessions in 5-Star hotels for Page-3 folks who will not drink Feni
for the remaining 364 days of the year' shows the lack of imagination of
the leaders of the Feni industry in Goa. Probably the only person who is
looking at Feni seriously and experimenting and researching and studying
and testing in a proper way is Hansel Vaz (of Cazulo fame). How exactly
does the oak barrel enhance the taste of Caju Feni? Will it make it vastly
different from the infusions currently used? Does a liquor with a powerful
bouquet like Caju Feni actually need any infusions? These and similar
questions should be asked before mindlessly aping the West and focussing on 
marketing gimmicks rather than improving quality through existing methods.
There are a few traditional distillers out there churning out fantastic
stuff. They should be encouraged and empowered - which is what Hansel is
doing. I do my bit in support too - by consuming copious amounts!

---

Cecil,
My understanding is that ageing mellows the spirit but, as always, the proof is 
in the tempered buds of the taster. 

My favourite bottle has light amber/golden coloured feni, which is normally 
what happens to clear alcohol that has been sitting around in a wooden cask. As 
I sip gracefully into middle aged, I find myself willing to pay a premium for 
what is marketed as the high product. 

Your last sentenced floored me though. No one is supposed to remember how much 
s/he consumes. The idea is, and has always been, to enjoy the company and er, 
good spirit.

Mervyn

[Goanet] Goa news for June 21, 2014

[Goanet News Service]

Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** CBI to question West Bengal governor MK Narayanan, Goa
governor BV ... - Economic Times
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*** Goa CM hostage to mining lobby, alleges AAP - Indian Express
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*** Goa will be garbage-free by next year: Parrikar - The Hindu
ree" by December 19, 2015, the next anniversary of Goa
Liberation Day. Addressing freedom fighters and people at the
annual Goa Revolution Day function at the Azad ...
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*** GOA flouting poll rules? - Times of India
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*** Goa receives 25mm rain in 24 hrs - Times of India
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*** Goa Cong questions eligibility of Assistant Solicitor
General - Zee News
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*** Rail fare hike evokes mixed response in Goa - Times of India
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*** Goa investment policy to encourage foreign defence projects
- Times of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: With the union government's change in policy
in defence procurement, the Goa government has decided to
encourage Indian and foreign companies to venture into Goa for
defence products, component manufacturers, and research
and ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNFVYW1n-184Pe-SJnI1mScqQ3-LzA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=-8OkU8G7AYjtgAe5koDoBg&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-investment-policy-to-encourage-foreign-defence-projects/articleshow/36875459.cms

*** Goa Congress questions eligibility of Assistant Solicitor
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*** Goa residential market: Waiting for a rebound - Indian
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[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Summer Solstice

[Rajan Parrikar]

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Summer Solstice'

Music of the Sphere.

During the couple of weeks before and after the summer solstice - June 21 in the
northern hemisphere - the sun barely dips below the horizon near the latitudes
of the High North. If the weather gods are on your side, you get to enjoy a
soft, lingering symphony of honeyed [...]

You may view the latest post at
http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2014/06/21/summer-solstice/

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Rajan Parrikar
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[Goanet] Goa ministers holiday regularly on taxpayers' money: CAG report (ibnlive.in.com)

[Goanet News]

Goa ministers holiday regularly on taxpayers' money: CAG report

Panaji: After the recent controversy over Goa ministers being sent on
a study tour to Brazil for the World Cup, CNN-IBN has now learnt that
several ministers in the Goa government have been globe trotting in
the name of study tours and striking trade deals. But not much has
been yielded from such trips.

The CAG report accessed by CNN-IBN shows how the tourism department
has failed despite ministers embarking on such trips on a frequent
basis. Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar, who assumed office in 2011,
is one such minister with the maximum number of foreign trips.

The CAG report reveals that during the period 2007-2012, the
department has participated in 38 International Trade Marts (ITMs) and
organised 15 road shows worldwide. The expenditure incurred during
this period by the department was Rs 19 crore. Audit suggests no MoUs
were signed during any of these roadshows or ITMs.

The report says that the department conducted 14 roadshows incurring
an expenditure of 4 crore between August 2011 and November 2011. They
were expected to contact 150 major tour operators/travel planners for
participation in the events and showcase Goa as a brand. They managed
to ensure a mere 25 to 64 participants.

Ministers on holiday on taxpayers' money?

- In March 2013, Parulekar attended roadshows in Berlin, Netherlands
and Denmark.

- In December 2013, Parulekar went on road shows in Los Angeles, New York.
- Other ministers have also gone on similar trips.

- Industries minister Mahadev Naik went toDubai for the India Trade Fair.

- In September 2013, deputy speaker Anant Shet went to Russia for an exhibition.

- MLA Ganesh Gaonkar went to ITB Asia in Singapore.

- For the road shows in Australia and New Zealand, MLA Nilesh Cabral
was sent as part of the delegation which also included other members
of the tourism department.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/goa-ministers-holiday-regularly-on-taxpayers-money-cag-report/479765-37-64.html

[Goanet] Question & fear to cite Hindi only as an official language in India?

[Con Menezes]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/india-narendra-modi-hindi-priority-language-fears

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[Goanet] Could Goa (and the diaspora) think of its own "James' gang"?

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[Goanet] World cup balls made in Pakistan

[Con Menezes]

http://theweek.com/article/index/261944/from-pakistan-to-brazil-an-inside-look-at-how-the-soccer-balls-for-the-2014-world-cup-are-made#axzz354LcvvHx

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[Goanet] Women in India Aren't Safe on Twitter Either (Sonia Faleiro, medium.com)

[Goanet Reader]

Women in India Aren't Safe on Twitter Either
The sexual humiliation of the streets has moved online

By Sonia Faleiro
soniafale...@gmail.com

Every morning Nilanjana Roy, the Indian novelist, goes
through the same routine in her New Delhi apartment: a few
minutes of yoga and meditation, before turning on some
Hindustani classical music to drown out the sounds of the
traffic, flipping open her laptop, and refreshing Twitter.
Roy has 100,000 followers; today there are 300 replies.  The
first one sets the tone: "You hole who should be raped by a
bamboo lathi."

  Roy, who shares strong, widely read opinions on
  politics and gender, is used to the barrage.  In
  the past, the web was a safe space for women -- or
  at least safer than the unpoliced, unpredictable
  wildness of India's streets.  These days, though,
  nowhere is protected: some Indian men are
  determined to use the web to target women whose
  opinions they hate or fear.  And, just like street
  hoodlums, they employ a mob mentality, work in
  packs, and deploy sexual language to terrorize and
  humiliate women.

It's clear from their online behavior that these men are
largely privileged Hindus, many of whom live outside India
and enjoy well-paying jobs. Prominent political journalist
Sagarika Ghose, who has 361,000 followers on Twitter, calls
them "communal techies." She also coined the now-ubiquitous
term "Internet Hindu" in a reference to their infatuation
with the Hindu right wing nationalist ideology of the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won an overwhelming
majority in the general elections that were held in April.
The Hindu far right is famously patriarchal, and blind to the
humanity and individuality of women.

In addition to harassing women simply because they are women
with opinions that differ to their own, some of these men
have also imported India's fault lines of caste and
communalism onto social media. They attack women who belong
to marginalized communities, tarnishing the modern world with
their hateful old prejudices.

Prominent women on Twitter whose names or work reveal their
caste inspire the sort of venom that confirms what is widely
known as a result of well-documented cases -- that some upper
caste men consider lower caste women fair game for
everything, including rape.

Take poet and novelist Meena Kandasamy. She writes about
sexuality with a rare frankness, has over 25,000 followers on
Twitter, and is a regular target of abuse. Speaking to me
from Chennai, she said that the particular vulgarity of the
tweets she is subjected to is influenced by the fact that she
belongs to a low caste.

"They want to frighten me off Twitter," she told me. "They
want me in a subjugated role."

  The fact that a low caste woman could be seen as
  successful, not just by the standards of her
  community, but by the intellectual mainstream, is
  galling to caste-obsessed right-wing Hindu men.

Their obsession has also led them to target women who belong
to minority religions. Sabbah Haji runs a public school in
the northern state of Jammu & Kashmir, and has over 18,000
followers on Twitter. Like Kandasamy, she expresses her
politically liberal views without a filter. She is a Muslim,
and can't count the number of times she has been called a
jihadi, she told me on the phone from Doda district. She is
asked whether her Muslim "terrorist" "brothers" are enjoying
their virgins in heaven.

  Like those who hound Roy and Kandasamy, Haji's
  attackers seem to feel empowered because they know
  that women on Twitter -- just like women on the
  streets of India -- are unlikely to fight back.
  Through experience, they've learned that responding
  brings pleasure to the attackers who, above all,
  crave attention and affirmation.  They are also
  unconvinced that their complaints, like a woman's
  calls for help on the street, will draw support.
  They suspect that it's just as likely that they
  will induce judgment, mockery, or even further
  harassment.

Indian Twitter wasn't always such an inhospitable place for
women. Roy recalls that when she joined it was a space that
was conducive to a range of opinions, generally expressed in
a civil manner.

It was still a masculine domain, where opinionated women
would often hear phrases like "who asked you?" "shut up!" and
"tum nahi samjhogi" ("you won’t understand").  Women who had
grown up being shushed and shooed away from participating in
critical decisions at home and work; who had been made to
feel, even by those closest to them, that their opinions did
not matter, immediately recognized -- and flinched from --
the entrenched patriarchy behind such tweets.  But they
didn't fear for their safety, as many do now.

  Things changed in the run-up to this year's general
  

[Goanet] MEDIA INVITE -Better Policing for a Safer Mumbai -Sunday, June 22 at 5.00 p.m.at Our Lady of Victories Church Hall, Mahim.

[Police Reforms Watch]

URGENT PRESS INVITE:

Public Meeting / Discussion on Better Policing for  a Safer Mumbai- Sunday, 
June 22 at 5.00 p.m at Our Lady of Victories Church Hall, Next to Sitladevi 
Temple, Mahim West.

Please depute your Reporter to cover this event.

Dolphy D'souza



  The Bombay Catholic  Sabha-  Our Lady of  Victories Church Parish Unit, 
  Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative [CHRI], New Delhi,
   &
  Police Reforms Watch  
 
   
  Invites you to 
  'Better Policing for a Safer Mumbai'
  Sunday, 22nd  June at 5.00 p.m.
  We  invite you to a discussion on 'Better Policing for a Safer Mumbai' at the 
Our Lady of Victories Church Hall, Lady Jamshedji Road, Next to Sitladevi 
Temple, Mahim West, Mumbai 400 016   on Sunday , 22 nd June at 5.00 p.m. 
   The Key note speakers for the event are:
   Ms MAJA DARUWALA, CHRI Director, New Delhi
  Mr. SHAILESH GANDHI - Former Central Information Commissioner 
   The discussion will touch upon concerns relating to the recent Maharashtra 
Police Ordinance, the Supreme Court order on police reforms and its 
implementation in Maharashtra, Police-politician nexus, safety of women and 
policing, police abusing its powers, police refusing to lodge complaints, 
improving police-citizen interaction, community policing, communal violence and 
police response and security and terror. There will be an interactive session 
in which concerned citizens will be encouraged to share their ideas and ask 
questions of the panellists on this subject matter. 
   Action plan will also be drawn up how to make this a poll issue.
   Please depute your Reporter / Cameraman to cover this event.
  Look forward to welcoming you there!
   Thanks, 
  Dolphy D'souza 
  Convenor
  POLICE REFORMS WATCH  
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  Email: policereformswa...@gmail.com

[Goanet] Goa Feni in North America

[Cecil Pinto]

Mervyn Lobo wrote:
Returning to our beloved Cashew Feni, I know we are in agreement on which
village produces the best stuff.

Cecil:
At one time,many years back, I would swear by the Feni of my Siolim
supplier. Much water, and adulterants, have flown under the bridge since
and I have moved on to better offerings from other villages. My newest good
discovery was in Bicholim this year.

--


Mervyn:
Lastly, two years ago someone gifted me a bottle of cashew in Goa which was
the best feni bottle I have ever opened. The bottle itself is gorgeous,
with a mini bottle shaped like the fruit, within it. The contents? Well let
me put it this way, it is so precious that the bottle is still half full.
But you remain the lucky one for now, as cashew feni aged in wooden
barrels, is available in Goa. With premium feni now available in Toronto, I
hope it is only a matter of time before we get aged feni in Toronto as well.


Cecil:
1) Do not judge a Feni by its bottle. Yes, that particular brand/bottle has
a pretty decent Feni but the price makes it not suitable for regular
drinking. I wouldn't mind paying 1/3rd the price for the same liquid in a
regular bottle. Overly fancy bottles are for tourists and showcases.

2) Roland would look at the bottle as half-empty.

3) The 'Feni aged in oak barrels' and 'Feni in fancy bottles' and 'Feni
tasting sessions in 5-Star hotels for Page-3 folks who will not drink Feni
for the remaining 364 days of the year' shows the lack of imagination of
the leaders of the Feni industry in Goa. Probably the only person who is
looking at Feni seriously and experimenting and researching and studying
and testing in a proper way is Hansel Vaz (of Cazulo fame). How exactly
does the oak barrel enhance the taste of Caju Feni? Will it make it vastly
different from the infusions currently used? Does a liquor with a powerful
bouquet like Caju Feni actually need any infusions? These and similar
questions should be asked before mindlessly aping the West and focussing on
marketing gimmicks rather than improving quality through existing methods.
There are a few traditional distillers out there churning out fantastic
stuff. They should be encouraged and empowered - which is what Hansel is
doing. I do my bit in support too - by consuming copious amounts!

---

Mervyn:
PS. I am still searching for that all elusive, "The Connoisseurs Guide to
Cashew Feni."

Cecil:
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

Cheers!

==

[Goanet] Of Marine Lines' Lanes, Prayers and Pregnant Women (Ivor Claude Fernandes)

[Goanet Reader]

PROHIBITION-TIME MEMORIES:

Of Marine Lines' Lanes, Prayers and Pregnant Women

By Ivor Claude Fernandes

Prohibition in the city then known as Bombay resulted in the
birth of a cottage industry.

There were three stages to the whole process. Distillation
(in cans and cycle tubes, rubber bladders). Transport (from
the suburbs like Juhu, Santa Cruz, Andheri, Kurla). Its sale
and consumption.

Where film-star Amitabh Bachchan's bungalow now stands (as
does Dharmendra's) was once a hooch distillery.  I know
because one weekend afternoon when we headed to Juhu, hoping
to buy some booze, we found the place turned into a
construction site with a bungalow coming up.  This was
sometime in the mid 1970s.

  Cops would rarely come and check because they were
  bribed and also these illicit distilleries were in
  isolated areas where it was difficult for the
  police to get to.  They found it far easier to wait
  at the roadside and catch and demand bribes from
  the carriers.  Some carriers were smarter, instead
  of heading back toward Bombay they would catch a
  BEST bus to Andheri station and beyond, and catch a
  local train back towards South Bombay.

Various people were paid off: cops, railway ticket checkers
(who would extort money), even the motormen of local trains
who were paid to stop in between stations to let the booze be
carried off by people waiting on the railway line. The
Central line running from Byculla to Currey Road especially
where many buildings came right upto the line and in others
places on the Western line like Mahalaxmi, Bombay Central and
Grant Road were popular stops. The trains would inexplicably
halt for a few moments; we knew hooch was being offloaded
because there was no other reason for the stops.

  Transportation: the hooch was carried in cans and
  cycle tubes (worn wrapped around the body under
  their clothes) and by women posing as pregnant
  woman (a rubber bladder fastened around the
  stomach.  Usually a football or a volleyball
  bladder).  In those days the Bombay Police had very
  few women constables and these were usually posted
  to places like the airport.  This meant that
  suspected women couldn't be searched or detained.
  There were even women in their fifties and
  mid-sixties in the trade.  One day when there
  enough women constables, a raid was carried out and
  a lot of pregnant women were detained.  They turned
  out to be carrying hooch in rubber bladders instead
  and one of them was in her mid-sixties!  This raid
  was somewhere on the Central Railway Line, I forget
  where exactly but the next day the newspapers
  carried photographs of the raid.

Hooch was smuggled in relatively small quantities as you can
see, which meant that there had to be many people available
to carry it.  There were lots of willing smugglers to carry
hooch, the money was good and many people I know personally
actually supported their families on the money they made.

These carriers would move in pairs or trios.  One to carry
the stuff and the other to escort and bribe their way into
South Bombay.  Sometimes there would be one escort for two or
even three carriers.  There always had to be an escort
because it was difficult to both carry alcohol and bribe
one's way.  Also if for some reason somebody had to be
detained, it was usually the carrier who stayed back.

I remember one particular escort, Rodrigues by name, from
Caranzalem, Goa.  In Bombay he lived in Wellington Terrace,
Dhobhi Talao.  Tall, well built, a fast talker; just the kind
of person you would want for an escort.  He later opened a
bar in Margao after Liberation.

Speakeasies were mostly run by women because they knew it was
difficult to be caught.  Popularly known as 'aunties', they
were mostly Christian.  Mostly Goan, a few were Mangalorean.
Few Maharashtrians were in the field particularly in areas
where there were no Goans.  But they weren't as popular
because their service wasn't as good.  They were very grumpy
hosts, I suppose.

A few trusted customers were sold booze on credit, most
others cash.  The booze cost eight rupees a bottle, and you
could either buy the whole bottle, a pint for four rupees or
a nip for two.  These rates prevailed from circa 1950 to
1960.  Later went up to Rs 20, 16 and 12.  Soda was extra,
two rupees a bottle, which was Roger's.  Roger's was the most
popular and expensive because it was supposed to have more
fizz.  Duke's was next, at Rs 1.50 a bottle.

  My last memory of going to a speakeasy is sometime
  in 1980.  Towards the end we went only on dry days
  which were once a week (Wednesday), and other other
  dry days like Gandhi's birthday and even Christmas
  and New Year's.

All these speakeasies were in the aunties houses, 

[Goanet] The Goan Association of Bengal (on Facebook)

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[Goanet] Renovated Amity Statues at Miramar Circle

[JoeGoaUk]

 

Torch bearing Unity  statues at Miramar beach circle



https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14442590456/in/photostream/
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Konknnyalo  Pôr with Puddvem or Zontir
Kristanvalo Cholo with kalçao


Note: Pics taken on 20.6.14 at around noon.
Upto 45% extra source of brightness added to all pic using computer techniques 
to make it lively

This was on 16/6/14
When they were working on it
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[Goanet] Lusophone Society Goa/India Newsletter - Sociedade Lusófona Goa/Índia Newsletter

[LSG]

*Texto em português mais em baixo*



 Dear Reader



Here our news: some obviously related to Football!
​ ​
For more news please check our FACEBOOK site Lusophone Society of Goa /
Sociedade Lusófona de Goa 



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Coal India looking at buying majority stake in railway project in Mozambique




Tracing the history of Madeira: From Portugal to India




Football fans who cannot make it to Brazil look for desi alternatives




As World Cup fever sweeps Goa, fans turn away from Portugal




Congresso em Macau: A Língua Portuguesa na Ásia




Portugal honours Indian historian: Percival Noronha




Why thousands of Goans are giving up Indian passports for Portuguese ones




Narendra Modi likely to visit Brazil in July




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Estimado leitor



apresentamos hoje aqui ( ver mais acima) as notícias que a Sociedade
Lusófona de Goa (LSG) escolheu para a si: algumas relacionadas com o
Futebol como é claro.
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Para mais notícias veja por favor a nossa página no FACEBOOK Lusophone
Society of Goa / Sociedade Lusófona de Goa




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[Goanet] Entertainment Society of Goa- Press Release- Film Appreciation Course

[silvia rebello]

Kind Attn: All,


Kindly find attached the Press Release issued by the Entertainment Society
of Goa, regarding *Film Appreciation Course- Inviting Participants for the
course. * Forwarded with request to ensure that it is published  on your
esteemed newspaper tomorrow, *21st June 2014 as it is issued for public
information*

-- 
Thanks& Regards,

Silvia Rebello
Asst. Manager (PR)
Entertainment Society of Goa.
Mob:9822983708
Office Tel: 0832-2428111
Fax: 0832- 2428000
www.iffigoa.org

[Goanet] Young innocent brides in India

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/June/Innocence-Lost-Indias-Children-Marrying-at-Age-8/

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Re: [Goanet] Fwd: PRABHUDESSAI SHOULD BE REINSTATED

[Nascimento Caldeira]

This sincere man Must Be Reinstated in his job! 
Else MP the CM must be hounded out for Gross Corruption!
Has M Parrikar shown his True Hypocritical Skin?
Big Shame on M Parrikar?


On Wed, 18/6/14, Stephen Dias  wrote:

 Subject: [Goanet] Fwd: PRABHUDESSAI SHOULD BE REINSTATED
   
 Stephen Dias
 
 GOVERNMENT WAS IN HURRY TO SERVE PRABUDESSAI DEMOTION ORDERS
 WITHOUT A FULL
 FLEDGED INQUIRY
 
 
 Parrikar Government showing red card to Prabhudessai and
 demoting him from
 the post of Director of Sports and Youth to Dy. Director is
 unwarranted.
 The main reason that the Government has stated is that he is
 not been
 accountable as he has leaked out matter from the files of
 the World Cup
 study tour to the Press as well as others.
 
  He should have been given opportunity as per the conduct
 rules for
 explanation by first issuing  a Memo and subsequently
 an inquiry when his
 reply was far from satisfactory. Now, this amounts to
 harassment for no
 reasons whatsoever, by not following  set of Govt
 rules.  Now, since he has
 defended this punishment by explaining the public and that
 he is devastated
 and may be at the verge of committing suicide it has become
 a serious
 issue. This shows that he is an innocent person and the
 Government was in
 hurry to take immediate steps to demote him. The
 administrative procedure
 should have been followed with suspension and if there was
 any substance
 than demotion or even termination with one month notice
 either side could
 have been issued.
 
 The main question is whether this file was CONFIDENTIAL or
 not? If NOT
 there was no need to have secrecy and in our democratic set
 up, the public
 is entitled to know the facts, unless it is SECRET OR
 CONFIDENTIAL or TOP
 CONFIDENTIAL The later  is generally been followed in
 defense forces,
  therefore this demotion is not justified when  he has
 not leaked out.
 
 He has other way out to get the justice done under the
 Indian laws in
 force. And the Court can reinstate him with all the loss of
 his salary etc
 from the day he has been relinquished or demoted from his
 position as
 Acting Director if the ruling comes in his favour.
 
 
  
 
 
 GOVERNMENT WAS IN HURRY TO SERVE PRABUDESSAI DEMOTION ORDERS
 WITHOUT A FULL
 FLEDGED INQUIRY
 
 
 Parrikar Government showing red card to Prabhudessai and
 demoting him from
 the post of Director of Sports and Youth to Dy. Director is
 unwarranted.
 The main reason that the Government has stated is that he is
 not been
 accountable as he has leaked out matter from the files of
 the World Cup
 study tour to the Press as well as others.
 
  He should have been given opportunity as per the conduct
 rules for
 explanation by first issuing  a Memo and subsequently
 an inquiry when his
 reply was far from satisfactory. Now, this amounts to
 harassment for no
 reasons whatsoever, by not following  set of Govt
 rules.  Now, since he has
 defended this punishment by explaining the public and that
 he is devastated
 and may be at the verge of committing suicide it has become
 a serious
 issue. This shows that he is an innocent person and the
 Government was in
 hurry to take immediate steps to demote him. The
 administrative procedure
 should have been followed with suspension and if there was
 no substance
 than demotion or even termination with one month notice
 either side could
 have been issued.
 
 The main question is whether this file was CONFIDENTIAL or
 not? If NOT
 there was no need to have secrecy and in our democratic set
 up, the public
 is entitled to know the facts, unless it is SECRET OR
 CONFIDENTIAL or TOP
 CONFIDENTIAL The later  is generally been followed in
 defense forces,
  therefore this demotion is not justified when  he has
 not leaked out.
 
 He has other way out to get the justice done under the
 Indian laws in
 force. And the Court can reinstate him with all the loss of
 his salary etc
 from the day he has been relinquished or demoted from his
 position as
 Acting Director if the ruling comes in his favour.
 
 
 
 Stephen Dias, D.Paula

Re: [Goanet] This road notorious for Road side Garbage 365 days a year

[Nascimento Caldeira]

What is CM, shree Manohar Parrikar doing?
Is he totally inefficient?


On Wed, 18/6/14, JoeGoaUk  wrote:

 Subject: [Goanet] This road notorious for Road side Garbage 365 days a year
  
  
 This road notorious for Road side Garbage 365 days a year
 
 there are many others throughout Goa but this one is
  
 Mapusa Siolim Road
 A video clip 1 min
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBV80xsAZYo
  
 Pics
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14264346397/in/photostream/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14449430492/in/photostream/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14449433192/in/photostream/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14264357837/in/photostream/
  
 Garbage right below the notice board
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14447427231/in/photostream/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14470961563/in/photostream/
 
 joego...@yahoo.co.uk
 
 

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....

[Gabe Menezes]

This came out when still in school, a beautiful song
covered by Sinatra, Doris Day and many others.
 MORE - Andy Williams (Lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-EDPuPNR8


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-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.