[Goanet-News] NEWSBRIEFS: Mining cos asked to pay damages (Navhind, ToI, etc)

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
Mining cos asked to pay damages 2 Jul 2008, 0330 hrs IST,TNN PANAJI: Mining companies will pay Rs 3.40 crore to 761 farmers from Surla as compensation for crop losses. This is the largest ever compensation for crop loss in the state. While disposing of a petition filed by the Surla panchayat and

[Goanet-News] Stop illegal development (via Reboni Saha)

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
Stop illegal development: be an alert and participative citizen for the proper development of Goa. Silence does not help. Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) calls upon you to stand up against developmental activities without proper No-Objection Certificate (NOC) such as: HILL CUTTING: Any land having a

[Goanet] Brestar Podd'dea Fattlean-15: 'Publicity ani Anti-Publicity'

2008-07-03 Thread Goa World
  'Brestar-Podd'dea Fattlean' (15) - Wilmix Wilson Mazarello      “Publicity ani Anti-Publicity”   PUBLICITY   Tiatrachi “publicity” koxi asta , hem, choddxem, soglech zannam :-   1. NEMALLEANCHER TIATRACHI  JAHIRATI GHALOP (Advertisement in Daily

[Goanet] 6th Annual BMX Family Picnic 2008

2008-07-03 Thread bmx
Dear BMXers, I hope you all are doing well and for the North Americans ready for the summer when it finally arrives By now, most of you would have either visited our website or were informed by one of your dedicated committee members of our upcoming 6th Annual BMX Family picnic. For those

[Goanet] Why do some find it necessary to vomit in public?

2008-07-03 Thread Cecil Pinto
Finally a worthy opponent, and logical too. --- Augusto Pinto said... The first sentence of the most influential book of the most influential Indian of the last 139 years is: The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. Was M. K. Gandhi vomiting in

[Goanet] India's Economy Hits the Wall

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News Service
India's Economy Hits the Wall Growth is slipping, stocks are down 40%, and foreign stock market investors are fleeing. Business blames the ruling coalition for failing to make reforms by Manjeet Kripalani Just six months ago, India was looking good. Annual growth was 9%, corporate profits

Re: [Goanet] Tiatrists: Their real names v/s Stage names

2008-07-03 Thread gwasha
On 7/1/08, JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tiatrists: Their real names v/s Stage names OK, do you recognise these tiatrists by their real names? Who are these 10 ? 1. Francis Thomas Peter D'Souza 2. Rosario Alfred Fernandes 3. Manuel Santan Aguiar 4. Peter D'Costa 5. Hermezilo Camilo

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Baroque Nazi war criminal ho ax — an update (Jonathan Allen, Reuter's b log)

2008-07-03 Thread AF
ha, ha, HA, ha, hhaa - Original Message - From: Goanet News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:27 PM Subject: [Goanet-News] Baroque Nazi war criminal hoax — an update (Jonathan Allen, Reuter's blog)

Re: [Goanet] June 18 and Goa's Liberation/Aggression -- some points

2008-07-03 Thread Eugene Correia
As it happens often on goanet, issues get repeated in a cyclic manner. The Goa's Liberation/Aggression is one such issue that has been contentious and has clearly divided many goanetters in pro-Portguese and pro-Indian camps. As it has been pointed out in the past, the points made by each camp

[Goanet] Women offload unruly passenger mid way

2008-07-03 Thread Frederick Menezes
from oheraldo.in Women offload unruly passenger mid way HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2 – It is definitely the aam aurat ka zamana! No, we are not joking or being sarcastic, for this is what happened on Tuesday night while traveling from Panjim to Margao in the KTC shuttle at 8.20 pm. It took

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] COMMENT: Stories that are too good to check(Siddharth Varadarajan, in The Hindu)

2008-07-03 Thread AF
I say, laugh we may at the Indian Press, but I commend your ability to disect the press in the aftermath. i doubt many western media ( powerful enough to create the watergate and clinton affairs breaking news) would apologize any more ferverntly. kudos to the indian media!!! now, can you bring

[Goanet] Malaika, I thought you were Goan

2008-07-03 Thread Carvalho
My mother was possibly the only parent amongst our friends in Dubai, who decided Konkani would be the language spoken in our home. This fervent act of patriotism on my mother’s part, left my ability to speak in English greatly impaired. Susan Lobo, a precocious child by any standards, took it

[Goanet] The Dev Anand Legend

2008-07-03 Thread Rajiv Desai
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 The Dev http://rajivndesai.blogspot.com/2008/07/evergreen-optimist.html Anand Legend Evergreen Optimist As I stood there shaking hands with him when he came to receive the Dada Saheb Phalke award, the years seemed to melt away. It was as though I was in my

[Goanet] FW: Goa's green movement has shades of black* by Sujay Gupta

2008-07-03 Thread Rocky
Mr. Gupta, Your writing is very interesting. Mines have been running for decades and it has fed Goa's population in some way or the other. Time is changing and people do change. Education has developed the minds of people. People object to the illegalities of mines. There are no

[Goanet] NEWSBRIEFS: Mining cos asked to pay damages (Navhind, ToI, etc)

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
Mining cos asked to pay damages 2 Jul 2008, 0330 hrs IST,TNN PANAJI: Mining companies will pay Rs 3.40 crore to 761 farmers from Surla as compensation for crop losses. This is the largest ever compensation for crop loss in the state. While disposing of a petition filed by the Surla panchayat and

[Goanet] Goan Identity Movement - Networking New York Goans

2008-07-03 Thread Arwin Mesquita
Santosh, Should your questions be at all valid, surely they should apply to all identities across the world. But this is not the case with Authorities in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Gulf etc enforcing/updating already strict controls to protect their identity and interests or having

[Goanet] Stop illegal development (via Reboni Saha)

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
Stop illegal development: be an alert and participative citizen for the proper development of Goa. Silence does not help. Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) calls upon you to stand up against developmental activities without proper No-Objection Certificate (NOC) such as: HILL CUTTING: Any land having a

[Goanet] Religious places are for worship, not to create communal violence'

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=6394cid=26 Religious places are for worship,not to create communal violence' HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, JULY 2 – Panelists in a debate titled 'Is communal violence rising in Goa?' organised by HCN, Goa's top news and entertainment channel were unanimous in

Re: [Goanet] Goan Identity Movement - Networking New York Goans

2008-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Arwin, I have more serious problems with the new material you have submitted. First, it appears that you are not able to answer the simple basic questions I had raised about your separatist movement. You also make erroneous assumptions about the views of the majority of Goans who are Indian

Re: [Goanet] Computer dependency test!

2008-07-03 Thread JOHN MONTEIRO
Samir I just read the link you supplied, its very interesting, but now I am in a quandry! I have put on several extra pounds since giving up smoking way back in 1989 have never been able to shift this extra bulge around the middle of my waist. It took 10 million years (the report

Re: [Goanet] Lessons for Goa

2008-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We?don't have to bring in Bebdes and Dukhors in this discussion.? Cheers Anesimo?? BTW:?I am told that Biharis?to? indians is what a ghati is to Goans. I am learning something new everyday!?? Why this bias against bebde and dhukor,

[Goanet] Keith Vaz: Egotistical, ambitious, sleazy...

2008-07-03 Thread Gabe Menezes
COMMENTARY: 'Egotistical, ambitious, sleazy ... The perfect candidate for a peerage' By James Chapman Last updated at 1:20 AM on 03rd July 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Self-regard is not a quality generally in short supply in the world of Westminster politicians. Yet Keith Vaz's ego has

[Goanet] Toronto Goan convention

2008-07-03 Thread George Pinto
Folks, 19 days to go to the Toronto Goan convention. You thrive in the 11th hour. You can book airline tickets, make acccomodation bookings, and sign-up the family for a convention in no time. Your spouse calls you Organized 11th hour Charlie. This is your moment. Register your family and

[Goanet] Vaz in fighting mood as he challenges reporters

2008-07-03 Thread Gabe Menezes
Vaz in fighting mood as he challenges reporters By Sarah Womack, Political Correspondent Last updated: 3:56 PM BST 19/06/2001 KEITH Vaz was back where he is happiest yesterday, at the centre of a media scrum. Just 24 hours after going to ground over the Hinduja passport affair, the minister was

Re: [Goanet] Daily Haiku #151

2008-07-03 Thread eric pinto
Hi Frank,  would like to send a gift/donation,  I am travelling, not home in NY.  Good luck with the big show.  Best,  Eric. --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Francis Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Francis Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Daily Haiku #151 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] gated community and vomitting -- in a lighter vein

2008-07-03 Thread JOHN MONTEIRO
Eugene You are the oil on troubled waters, that is what you are! If Selma invites any or all of the three main antagonists / protagonists (depending on your viewpoint) for lunch or dinner, I will prepare, cook, dish it up myself AND bring it to the table! I have been

Re: [Goanet] June 18, references and facts!

2008-07-03 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
Eugene, I must say that for the first time I am in agreement with most of what you now wrote. Mathai, Lawrence and other Goa 1961 banned publications are quite revealing. I am not too sure if Mathai was banned because of particular aspects of Nehru's personal life being exposed. The general

Re: [Goanet] Sarvona Zantye Mining:Third Party Intervention granted- COMMENTS by goasuraj

2008-07-03 Thread goasuraj
Very well done is what we say to Shri. Ramesh Gauns and co. for persisting in this fight to save Goa from the mining mafia. It is aparent by virtue of Mr. Sujay Gupta making out the report indicting Shri Shyamsundar Pundalik Naik of Varchavadda, Advalpal for taking a packet for cultural

Re: [Goanet] Goan Identity Movement - Networking New York Goans

2008-07-03 Thread Edward Verdes
Santosh Bab, I agree with you...I am proud to be an IndianI wear kurta..and if i meet a fellow goan...I always talk to them in Konkani... Edward Verdes From: Santosh Helekar Finally, your separatist movement and the material you have submitted below ignore and disrespect the fact that the

Re: [Goanet] Doom for Goa - tip of the land conversion iceberg

2008-07-03 Thread Edward Verdes
Joe bab A few years back when Churchill visited Kuwait...he advised the Goans in Kuwait to invest in landbuy land..before the ghantis can grab your land...I dont know how many Goans then followed his advise.. cause I feel goans were not so worried that time about Goa and thought that it was

[Goanet] DNAIndia.com : Indian Americans divided over Narendra Modi

2008-07-03 Thread RUBYGOES
This message was sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED], as a service of dnaindia.com -- Comments from sender : Good Morning Goanet. Narendra Modi is one scary Hindutva guy. ORANGE DOESN'T SUIT HIM. Call the fashion police. No Visa

[Goanet] Fathe Eusebius, an Honorary Goan

2008-07-03 Thread Carvalho
In the same year that Enoch Powell was giving his “Rivers of Blood” speech in Britain, Father Eusebius was getting ready to inaugurate a British School in Dubai. He had managed through skilful diplomacy to convince the Ruling family to grant enough land for a Catholic Church and a small

[Goanet] Minglu de Merces

2008-07-03 Thread JoeGoaUk
Minglu de Merces http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=CPCgYlM8jCE Minglu also seen here http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=9YdR31JkrXQ pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk11/1452186477/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/259983242/sizes/l/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa NRI related

[Goanet] anti SEZ public meet at Colva on 6 July (Sunday) at 10am

2008-07-03 Thread Pravin Sabnis
The SEZ Virodhi Manch calls on all Goans to join the solidarity against SEZs at a PUBLIC MEETING at Church Hall, COLVA on Sunday, 06 JULY 2008, at 10.00 am   Let’s voice our solidarity to say Amka naka SEZ, amka zai PEZ!   yours truly  Charles Fernandes Convenor - SVM     The sincerity of

Re: [Goanet] Fathe Eusebius, an Honorary Goan

2008-07-03 Thread Bosco D'Mello
Please don't write to tell me you never liked Father Eusebius or something that will not be of any interest to me. RESPONSE: How are the rest of us to know what interests you?? BTW I met Malaika in Calangute in Dec 2008. I recognized her among the empty Breezer bottles lying on the beach. She

[Goanet] Tiatre- Toronto Goan Convention cultural event

2008-07-03 Thread George Pinto
Please contact Lisette for tickets at [EMAIL PROTECTED] LISETTE SALDANHA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, We have got tickets on sale for the 'Goan theatre Konkani production of Adieus. Call me at 905-813-7787 or email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] July 25, 2008, 7:00 pm sharp The

[Goanet] NEWS: Two unusual stories from the day's papers...

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
Police seize 17 swords in Margao NT NETWORK MARGAO — The police on Thursday recovered some 17 swords at Monte Hill, Margao, which limped back to normalcy two days back after witnessing communal violence over eve teasing last week. The swords were kept in an abandoned truck at the entry point of

[Goanet] NCERT missive to Goa education board chief (NT)

2008-07-03 Thread Goanet News
NCERT missive to Goa education board chief AGENCIES NEW DELHI — The NCERT on Thursday shot off a letter to the Goa Education Board chief demanding an explanation on why history and Hindi textbooks for class 10 were withdrawn. The chairman of the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

[Goanet] SAD NEWS : Funeral notice for Sophie Cardoso

2008-07-03 Thread Tony
Dear Members and friends We are all sad to learn about the death of Sophie Cardoso on Sunday, 2nd July 2008. Mrs. Sophie Cardoso is the sister of members Monica Fernandes and Joe Gonsalves. Please pass on the information regarding funeral arrangements to members and friends on your

Re: [Goanet] Goan Identity Movement - Networking New York Goans

2008-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 7/3/08, Edward Verdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santosh Bab, I agree with you...I am proud to be an IndianI wear kurta..and if i meet a fellow goan...I always talk to them in Konkani... Eddiebab, Good to hear from you. Perhaps, you are unintentionally raising a very valid