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Dear Goanetters,
Fred has worked for the oHERALDo in its formative years. I have read it and
occasionally contributed articles to it and whetted its information on
agriculture for accuracy. It was in this connection that I first met the
then Editor, Rajan Narayan and News editor, Norman Dantas[
Dear Sirs,
Can you please tell me how effective the RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT is going
to be. Do you think that citizens will now be able to get the information
from government departments such as police, municipalities etc.
Please let me know something more about it.
thanks
Mary
Sanjit appointed administrator
PANJIM, Oct 11: The Commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji,
Sanjit Rodrigues, has been appointed as the administrator of the
Corporation. (H)
At last some good news! Six months of Sanjit at the helm of affairs without
the need to molly coddle some of
The Catholic laity needs to be reminded gently about what has been written in
this article .
The Homily on Maundy Thursday could b e one such day that catholics are
reminded that priests are fallible human beings like everyone else yet they
have chosen to serve Schools Teachers like me can
Hello Goanetters,
Hope you will find the following 'read' useful.
Nasci Caldeira.
China booking place in Space Club!
China's second manned space mission will be launched today, carrying two
astronauts into orbit on a flight lasting several days, the Government
announced yesterday.
The mission
Hello Goanetters!
Please read this news item; I hope authorities concerned will take remedial
action; instead of burdening srudents and the general population with
multiple languages, bogus learning and ancient non useful culture.
Nasci Caldeira.
--- karmarkar d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the posts by Averthan D'souza are really
unfortunate.
Dear Karmarkar,
I don't know if you've caught on to what Avertahanus
was saying.
At this moment in time, there is not much point in
spending crores on fancy mass transit systems.
Mario adds:
I strongly endorse Floriano's suggestion shown
above.
I had no idea that overseas, part-time, long
distance
Goans even had the gall to take such credit.
As one who has been accused of an overseas mouth
that
is louder than most, my loud mouth is firmly on the
side of
--- Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4455692
Flying from the computer
Sep 29th 2005
From The Economist print edition
The internet has pitted travel agents against travel
providers in an intense
battle to win customers
Yes, I
Dear Lauren [ I hope the name is not fictitious, just protected ID]
The article by Fr.Washington [SAR/ICPA] was really good. The laity sometimes
has unreasonable expectations from priests and treat him as another
sub-species of the human race.
Your interpretation, however, has some inaccuracies.
http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=17760
India (Soul Yatra Website) - Jazz in India has arrived, especially
amoung Goans who have consistently produced their own legends in this
great art form that originated in America. Hennessy cognac has
supported jazz for decades through a series of
Dear Joe,
You are welcome.
Konkani is my mother tongue and I am proud of it.
JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Thank you Miguel,
Do come back with more Goa/Konkani news.
People like me from this part of the world will be very grateful to you.
Thanks once again.
joe
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See
newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20051012011157Page=KTitle=Southern+News+-+KarnatakaTopic=0
NewIndPress.com
SOUTHERN NEWS - KARNATAKA
Oct 12, 2005
Police arrest accused after 27 years
Wednesday October 12 2005 11:33 IST
HUBLI: The Police on Monday arrested a person accused of
GOA: BEING A WINDOW TO EUROPE (Panjim Plus)
Language and culture buffs couldn't ask for more, what with
the various foreign organisations throwing up numerous
opportunities that can help in the making of a 'world
citizen', writes Cedric Silveira.
---
Susan, from Panjim, has moved to France
Dear Netgaokars,
If one looks at the statistics, one wonders whose Official Language the
Antruzi Konkani in Devanagari script is. The Goa Government has no known
periodical fully in Konkani, its 'Official Gazette' is in English and only
8.25% of its Primary schools are in Konkani medium [ some of
--- Floriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And thirdly, you loud mouths overseas must realise
that you cannot go on
giving yourselves the credit of being the know-all
and more patriotic as far
as Goa is concerned. There are others on ground zero
who work like white ants,
unseen and
We appreciate the efforts of the United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) Indian National Congress (INC) led
coalition for putting in place a legislation the first
of its kind post Independence (1947) giving every
citizen of India the Right to Information.
That this Act has been put in force today
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Hello Cypriano
Kain nozo gaubav, punn ugdas ailo tuzo
kovita vachoun dadoxi zalo jiv mozo
mogan tum poddlai munn amurko ailo anso
konn tor ti choli, chintnani borlo mozo bezo
Noxib re tujem, tuka mellonk
I attended the silver jubliee of ordinatiion of Goan priest in Mumbai. After
the mass there was small reception.
Fr. Bosco Pereira, from Don Bosco's Borivili, well known for his humourous
toasts was the MC.
Here is one joke he cracked on himself.Fr. Bosco in his own words:
You know I am a
News -- Government Grants Citizens 'Right to Know'
Sidharth Pandey / NDTV
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=15294n_tit=Government+Grants+Citizens+%27Right+to+Know%27+
New Delhi, Oct 12:
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Just yesterday, I read on the newspaper in Saudi, that Laxmi Mittal is
planning to invest 9 billion dollars in Jarkand for building Steel Industry
there, and also a Korean Steel Company which
When the BBC London, in its 1730 (IST) news bulletin
on 20th December, 1986 announced the Headline news --
and a comment from its then correspondent Mr Mark
Tully, --- stating that one killed in police firing
it was the first martyr who laid his life for the
cause of Konkani -- young Mr Floriano
Congratulations to the publisher and the writer. Lay people need to read
these type of articles time and again to refresh their memories on certain
values. I always have this little thought running in my mind specially when
I find im not able to concentrate on a sermon well (or boring as we call
As more beans spill out, yet another shocking
disclosure has now come to light, of a section of the
Hindu Brahmins, in the matter of Konkani in
Devanagari script.
A top official of the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi
confirmed DISCREETLY to this writer, that the 10
member Advisory Board for
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=101027
Cops to prepare list of tenants in S Goa
NT News Service
Margao, Oct 9: The South Goa district police have decided to step up its
drive of collecting information about strangers, tenants and servants.
So far they have collected
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=134994cat=India
Goa cabinet approves setting up of State Information Comm
Panaji | October 11, 2005 8:47:21 PM IST
Goa cabinet today gave a nod to set up Information Commission under the
Right to Information Act.
Chief Minister Pratapsinh
H: What do you feel about Goans lining up for
Portuguese passports and
emigrating abroad. Isn't it a loss to Goa?
CA: First of all, the unemployment rate in Goa is
very high. Goans attaining
Portuguese nationality and emigrating abroad is very
good, as when they're
abroad theyll
Here are the results of Day 5 of the All Goa
inter-village football tournament organized by All
Star
Entertainment in association with United Goans and
held at the Iranian Club Sports Stadium.
* Vanxim Divar beat Fatorda, Jabel Ali Hotel by 4-0
* F.C.Siolim blanked Morjim by 3-0.
borgee.
Vatican releases Pope Benedict's first book,
'God's Revolution'
- By Carol Glatz
10/11/2005
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican joined with other
publishers in an 18-nation release of Pope Benedict
XVI's first book as pope -- a collection of his
speeches from August events in Cologne, Germany.
Do Lay People Really Understand Their Priests?
By Adolf Washington, SAR NEWS
I can never forget the startled looks a young Catholic couple gave me
when they found me, as a young deacon, standing in a queue at a cinema
hall in Kolar Goldfields, Karnataka. As if looks were not enough, they
came up
The reason for this, specially for long haul flights
from N.America to India may be because the online
travel services only seem to display the full fare
ticketed prices, which are simply not competitive.
I'm not too sure why this is. It may be due to
capacity constraints for flights going to or
Avgoddaieo vodik amkam mozbut kortat ani vhodd zoitak pavoitat. Porvot
choddunk sompem nhoi punn tache tongxer than choddxi ekdom bori dixtt
mellta.
(Difficulties make us stronger and lead us on to great victories. Mountains
are not easy to climb but the view from the top is usually the
Top 10 Tiatr
I have watched many Tiatrs by different directors
rate the following Tiatrs as TOP TEN. Requesting
all the tiatr lovers to prepare your own list of Top
10 Tiatrs post it on Goanet.
1 - Fullam ani Kolle Wri Dir. by : Rosario
Rodrigues
2 - Mauli Wri Dir. by : Jose Rod
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