[Goanet] VOA News - India's Mobile Phone Market Grows Rapidly Despite Economic Slowdown

2009-03-21 Thread Ruby Goes
G'day Goanet World, Especially when you can't depend on your landline. I've spent 3 days in Bombay when Bandra/Khar phones were dead as a dodo. Shame on the Communications Sector and the associated Govt Departments for their inability to provide decent services thus far. Long may your cell phones

[Goanet] DNA - Slide show - When will the violence end? -

2009-03-21 Thread Ruby Goes
Goanetters, FYI. Pics of the attacks on Christians in Mangalore. http://www.dnaindia.com/slideshow.asp?newsid=1241017sldid=1 rubygoes

[Goanet] Nuns treated like servants by priests

2009-03-21 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
Cardinal Ananthakrishnan G says: Nuns treated like servants by priests To read more click on the link provided here below: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nuns-treated-like-servants-by-priests-Car dinal/articleshow/4272890.cms Best regards, Dr. U. G. Barad

[Goanet] DNA: Mumbai: I want my father, Aussie-born child tells HC

2009-03-21 Thread Ruby Goes
Goanetters, http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1241104 Wow. A three and a half year old gets to choose a parent? Weird stuff. rubygoes

[Goanet] Daily Grook #354

2009-03-21 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #354 __ GUARD DISCARD __ by Francis Rodrigues did da pope yesterday ban condoms fore'play? for ma girl says they rubber the wrong way! _ puns word-play of all kinds, hey...read between the lines! _

Re: [Goanet] Nuns treated like servants by priests

2009-03-21 Thread Carvalho
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Dr. U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nuns-treated-like-servants-by-priests-Car dinal/articleshow/4272890.cms -- Barad, I notice that perpetually you forward articles that show Christianity in

[Goanet] What have Saligao Youngsters and Playground got to do with the Road - Mr. Bonnie??

2009-03-21 Thread Agnelo Fernandes
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:21:03 +0530, Ashley Delaney ashley...@gmail.com wrote on the subject: Re: [Goanet] what have Saligao Youngsters and playground got to do with the road Mr. Bonnie (full text deleted) Hello Mr Cyril, Mr Bonnie, and my dear friend ASHLEY, I apologize to young Ashley for not

[Goanet] Week in pictures

2009-03-21 Thread Olga Maciel
Week in pictures: 14 -20 March http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7954997.stm In pictures: Natasha Richardson http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7950192.stm Olga Maciel _ All your Twitter and other social updates in

[Goanet] 3 UK teenagers jailed for total 19 years for killing Indian

2009-03-21 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
3 UK teenagers jailed for total 19 years for killing Indian 21 Mar 2009, 1547 hrs IST, PTI LONDON: Three British teenagers who pleaded guilty to the sensational killing of an Indian sailor in Southampton in a racist attack in October 2007 have been sentenced to six and a half years each in

[Goanet] Elections

2009-03-21 Thread John Gomes
MILLSTONE AROUND OUR NECKS      The election scenario is getting murkier day by day, with a third front and absolutely opportunistic politicians making a mockery of democracy, which is supposed to be OF, By and For the people. The Election Commission members

[Goanet] To the Editor Gomantak Times

2009-03-21 Thread JoeGoaUk
To the Editor Gomantak Times I have noted at least 3 pics (see above) used in last 10 days (including today's Casino boat) in your daily GT (There could be more). Please if possible, when giving credit, please say 'JoeGoaUk' as one word rather than saying 'Joe Goa Uk' as nowhere on the net

[Goanet] Govt of Goa : POLICY FOR SCHOOL ADMISSIONS 2009-10

2009-03-21 Thread President(sgpiag)
The Directorate of Education, Government of Goa, has in a poorly worded set of guidelines circulated to schools, apparently intends, to have set at rest, atleast for the forthcoming academic year 2009-10, the turmoil on the outright or clandestinely demanded donations by most English medium

[Goanet] DNA: World: Credit card details of Britons sold at $10 each

2009-03-21 Thread Ruby Goes
Goanetters, http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1241063 Know anything about this? rubygoes

[Goanet] Kolvontancho khell

2009-03-21 Thread Geraldo Oliveira
Dear all, Vishnu Wagh’s comments in Herald dtd 21 March, a day after UGDP announced the candidature of Matanhy Saldanha for the South Goa constituency, are clear signs of panic and tremor in the Congress camp. He has termed Matanhy as a friend of Parrikar; as if to say, Congressmen

[Goanet] Obsession with other people's religion

2009-03-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post appended below as well as another entitled [Goanet] Nuns treated like servants by priests reveals an obsession with one-sided political activism centered around other people's religion. This is evident from the misleading generalization in the quote below. It conveniently ignores the

Re: [Goanet] Nuns treated like servants by priests

2009-03-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
Selma, I think you're misreading things. Dr Barad obviously has a deep (possibly sub-conscious) love for Christianity that he would like to perfect its failings, and make it a better religion/ideology. We should appreciate his efforts and thank him unhesitatingly for all the efforts he puts

[Goanet] CONTROVERSY: Taking caste seriously (Jason Keith Fernandes, in Gomantak Times)

2009-03-21 Thread Mario Goveia
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Goanet Reader wrote: Taking Caste Seriously Why the Goan Fitna needs a rigorous caste-based analysis By Jason Keith Fernandes Amita Kanekar wrote: Very interesting/important article! Rajan P. Parrikar parrikar at yahoo.com Thu Mar 19 22:00:30 PDT 2009

Re: [Goanet] Nuns treated like servants by priests

2009-03-21 Thread Mario Goveia
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Dr. U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nuns-treated-like-servants-by-priests-Cardinal/articleshow/4272890.cms Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:07:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com Barad, I notice that perpetually

Re: [Goanet] Obsession with other people's religion

2009-03-21 Thread Carvalho
Hi Santosh, I'd really be curious to know and if you could back this up with some published statistics, whether the Indian-American community/social organisations in the US are indeed well represented by Christians, Muslims, Parsees and Sikhs. Best, Selma --- On Sat, 3/21/09, Santosh Helekar

[Goanet] Motesh Antao Slapped on his face three times by Goa

2009-03-21 Thread Venantius Pinto
Hello God, Oh the free will. Oh the free will. Can you help them go the distance. Hello Goa, Can you help them go the distance. +++ Hello God by Dolly Parton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRzrHB2qhNMNR=1 Do you love someone more than others. (a line from Hello God). Hello Hello. Hello God

[Goanet] Goa sways … to a Prince: HERALD(G oa), March 22, 2009

2009-03-21 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
GOA SWAYS … TO A PRINCE By Valmiki Faleiro Four state governments led by India’s major political parties: BJP and Congress. Three Tourism Ministers, from a tailor-turned-politician, to a teacher-turned-politician, to even a surgeon-turned-politician: Mickky Pacheco, Mathany Saldanha, Dr.

[Goanet] How was....?

2009-03-21 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
[A word of thanks to Goanetter Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who spends time mentoring and passing on his skills, during his annual sojourn in Goa. --FN] Victor and Lea were (unnecessarily, if you ask me) apologetic for a seven-minute delay at Porvorim on Saturday at 9 am. But, after that, everything

Re: [Goanet] Nuns treated like servants by priests

2009-03-21 Thread Carvalho
--- On Sat, 3/21/09, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Why wasn't this posted by one of the vaunted defenders in India of everything Christian.  Did Marshall not see this?  Where is Fr. Ivo?  Where is Jason Keith?  Don't any of our Indian Goans read the Times of India?  I'd like

[Goanet] Goa news for March 22, 2009

2009-03-21 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** 3 UK teens jailed for killing Indian in racist attack - Times of India rigin Indian sailor Gregory Fernandes like a pack of dogs minutes before he collapsed and died, Winchester Crown